An admissions expert at CollegeAdvisor answers a parent’s burning question.

Not according to a UC San Diego report. Instead, the college is finding that students struggle with even basic elementary ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...