college-admissions

And according to an Aug. 17 report by the group that administers the ACT college-admissions exam, Texas high school graduates only narrowly trail national averages for college readiness.

Notable & Quotable 2011

Few policy leaders would seriously propose eliminating financial aid based on academic merit, an essential variable in today's competitive college-admissions marketplace.

Eight ways to get higher education into shape 2011

Advanced-placement classes have been booming amid efforts by high-school students and parents to trim college tuition costs and gain an edge in the college-admissions race.

For AP Students, a New Classroom Is Online Sue Shellenbarger 2011

The result of these tensions, for countless teenagers and their parents, is a frantic struggle to gain the approval of inscrutable college-admissions officers.

A Craving for Acceptance Daniel Akst 2011

Ivy leaguers have a new way to earn extra spending money: selling their old college-admissions essays.

Overheard: Borrowed Experience 2011

A probe into college-admissions test cheating that began at one Long Island high school broadened Tuesday as authorities said dozens of current and former students in several schools, including in Queens, have come under suspicion.

Admissions Cheating Probe Widens Lisa Fleisher 2011

Jeff Mongold , a 40-year-old college-admissions officer in Hiram, Ohio, flies AirTran every month because its fares are cheaper.

Southwest Eager for a Seat in Atlanta Timothy W. Martin 2011

Few policy leaders would seriously propose eliminating financial aid based on academic merit, an essential variable in today's competitive college-admissions marketplace.

Eight ways to get higher education into shape Daniel deVise 2011

Corbis Stanford University Few aspects of American life better exemplify the glories and miseries of our culture than the college-admissions rat race.

A Craving for Acceptance Daniel Akst 2011

As she tells the intertwined stories of five high-school students in Southern California — three at an expensive private school, two at a local public school — Ms. Stabiner takes the not inaccurate position that the college-admissions process can be both arbitrary and vulnerable to crass manipulation.

Supplication Process Gabriella Stern 2010