Enrollment, Admissions at Universities in the USA

Going after an industry giant in K-12 college and career planning wasn’t what Katie Fang originally had in mind when she started SchooLinks in 2015... (2021)

From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissi... (2023)

The false perception that prestige matters when picking a college won’t change until families start to look beyond the hype, Jeffrey Selingo argues. (2020)

Named one of Grown & Flown's “Best Book on College Admissions and Paying for College” “The most honest, most helpful book I’ve ever read on applyin... (2023)

Universities could have used online learning to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Instead they allowed forprofit companies to devou... (2019)

growing number of universities in the US are abandoning the use of standardized tests as a key factor in the admissions process. Last month, Creigh... (2019)

“I AM SIMPLY thrilled about all the folks you were able to admit,” David Ellwood, the then dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government,... (2019)

Where the desperation of late-stage meritocracy is so strong, you can smell it (2020)

Look at these three numbers to gauge your chances of actually getting financial aid. (2020)

December 2019 The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grad... (2019)

Number of U.S. colleges and universities that award federal financial aid fell by 5.6 percent in 2018-19, to lowest mark in two decades. (2019)

Demographic changes mean there will be far fewer high school graduates in coming years for colleges to attract The financial crisis of 2008 was ... (2018)

In the final ‘shaping’ of an incoming class, academic standards give way to other, more ambiguous factors The admissions process at such schools... (2020)

The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting college enrollments, except for graduate degrees (2020)