Julie Posselt, a professor of education and the author of “Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty ...

While many elite universities have removed their test-optional policies, Notre Dame has affirmed its test-optional policy for ...

UC San Diego’s record-high enrollment seems to have come at a cost: increasingly underprepared students. On Nov. 6, UCSD’s ...

Nearly 1,000 UCSD freshmen test into elementary school math despite stellar high school grades—a crisis 30 times worse than ...

Lawmakers passed a bill this week that would make California one of the few states in the nation to ban private colleges and universities from considering an applicant’s legacy or donor connections ...

California has become the fourth state to ban legacy admissions. California has become the fourth state to ban legacy admissions in the college application process, a practice that has long been ...

Yale University will require standardized test scores for admission for students applying to enter in the fall of 2025, becoming the second Ivy League university to abandon test-optional policies that ...

California’s public universities were once excellent at milling out mostly competent graduates (along with the requisite duds ...

Student group says Black, Hispanic applicants get unfair advantage Violations of U.S. Constitution, civil rights law alleged University says it collects race data for statistical purposes Feb 3 ...

After a successful pilot, California is joining a growing group of states to extend proactive college acceptances to ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has become the fourth state to ban legacy admissions in the college application process, a practice that has long been criticized as favoring white or wealthy students ...