Students walk on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles. California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s most ...

Editor’s note: This is the first story in a collaborative series covering the state of Northwest college admissions in 2025. Directives by the Trump administration are aimed at eliminating race-based ...

This week Yale’s office of undergraduate admissions announced a new policy on standardized testing for first-year and transfer applicants. After four years with a test-optional policy that allowed ...

New data released by the University of California last week shows a number of changes, as well as continuities, when compared to past years of admissions and enrollment. As explained by Michael Burke ...

Fewer students in this fall’s class of college freshmen chose to disclose their race or ethnicity in their applications to some top schools, data shows. The pattern, which is nuanced and only affects ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course ...

A new analysis of admissions data from after the 2023 Supreme Court decision to axe affirmative action shows admissions for ...

In the same week as a civil rights inquiry into Harvard, new data shows legacies are slightly more qualified yet are four times as likely to get into top schools. By Claire Cain Miller and Aatish ...