How do college admissions officers decide who to actually admit to college? And how can you, as a someone applying, figure out how to get ahead? Applying to the college of your dreams can be a ...

Louisiana’s top board overseeing higher education postponed Thursday consideration of new minimum admissions standards for the state’s 13 public four-year universities. Some members of the Board of ...

Bickering about a few hundred college students at Louisiana State University has mushroomed into a far larger quarrel about lines of authority in state higher education and the autonomy of individual ...

Specific academic requirements to enter the Saint Louis University School of Medicine include a minimum of 90 semester hours (135 quarter hours) in undergraduate arts and science courses. Virtually ...

The annual "State of College Admission" report is important for several reasons. One is that it dispels the myth -- propagated by many who write about college admissions -- that it's impossible to get ...

Eligible students at every public high school, countywide, were offered direct admission to CSU schools — before even ...

The shift toward standardized metrics will make the selective college admissions process less fair, not more, Tara P. Nicola, ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. Some people have a knack for writing, while others will never write well no matter how hard they try. That is an example of a question that will ...

Asked the above question, our readers ranked six criteria—extracurricular activities, standardized test scores, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, athletic skill and legacy status—from “most ...

For generations, two numbers have signaled whether a student could hope to get into a top college: his or her standardized test score and his or her grade-point average. In the past 15 years, though, ...