(Edweek) by Steven Sawchuk. Sharpen those No. 2 pencils: States that pick up the cost of college-entrance exams for all students can boost four-year college enrollment among low-income students, new research suggests. In effect, a mandatory entrance-exam policy helps remove one of the hurdles standing between those students and the track to a college degree. […]
Read More »(New York Times) by Susan Dynarsky | …Michigan began requiring public school juniors to take the ACT in 2007, and the share of high school graduates taking a college entrance exam rose immediately to nearly 99 percent from 54 percent. That growth was even sharper among low-income students; only 35 percent had been taking the […]
Read More »(US News) by Brian Witte. Your junior year of high school can easily become the Year of College Preparation. From standardized test review to building a strong resume of extracurriculars and challenging classes to preliminary research into colleges and majors, you will have many demands on your time. One way to buy yourself a bit […]
Read More »(Washington Post) by Susan Svrluga. After President Trump announced a temporary travel ban in January, academic leaders were swift to condemn it, and to warn that it would shut out some of the world’s most talented scholars. [Nearly 600 colleges object to Trump’s travel ban] But a national study of admissions officers found that, at […]
Read More »(Daily Californian) by Audrey McNamara. The University of California released fall 2017 admission data today. The data reflects a 1.7 percent drop in California resident admission. Due to last year’s abnormally large in-state class — adding an additional 7,500 in-state students, the university is still on track to meet its goal of adding 10,000 California students by […]
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