Tag: College admissions
Simply scrapping the SAT won’t make colleges more diverse
Guadalupe I. Lozano, University of Arizona
When the University of California decided in early 2020 to stop using the ACT and SAT in admissions by...
5 ways that the coronavirus will change college admissions this fall
Robert Massa, University of Southern California
Editor’s note: The new coronavirus is spreading across the United States just as many high school seniors were applying...
The SAT’s new ‘adversity score’ is a poor fix for a...
Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh
The College Board recently revealed a new “adversity score” that it plans to use as part of the SAT in...
Why rich parents are more likely to be unethical
David M. Mayer, University of Michigan
Federal attorneys have arrested 50 people in a college admission scam that allowed wealthy parents to buy their kids’...
Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions
Morgan Polikoff, University of Southern California; Jerome A Lucido, University of Southern California, and Julie Renee Posselt, University of Southern California
The most damaging myth...
Test prep is a rite of passage for many Asian-Americans
Julie J. Park, University of Maryland
When ACT released its latest test scores this past October, the results showed that average scores took a dip...
Black student activists face penalty in college admissions
Ted Thornhill, Florida Gulf Coast University
Back when I taught at a predominantly white, selective liberal arts college, I came across a book called “Acting...
Considering race in college admissions – 3 questions answered
Stella M Flores, New York University
On July 3, the Trump administration announced it will reverse several policy memos outlining how colleges and universities can...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
