If you work long enough in education, you see that most academic trends swing through extreme phases like a pendulum. College admissions trends have followed suit, especially regarding standardized ...

A committee of the UNC System Board of Governors wants to change universities’ admission standards to give schools more flexibility in what students they admit. If a proposal is approved by the full ...

It seems some are willing to do the unthinkable to get into college these days. After a celebrity college admissions scandal swept the nation earlier this month, it seems clear that getting into ...

I’ve been skeptical of the claim by colleges they care more about grades than test scores, but the University of Georgia may turn me into a believer. UGA says its main criteria are the rigor of the ...

Dear Mark, My daughter is a junior with a 3.7 GPA, and she just got her SAT score back: 1180. She’s disappointed. Honestly, so am I. She studied hard. But a ...

Northern Illinois University is getting rid of standardized tests next year, joining a growing contingent of colleges that are minimizing the role of SAT and ACT scores in undergraduate admissions.