t’s a busy time for college-hopeful high school students across the Pacific Northwest.
Students looking to secure a spot ahead of time at their college of choice are scrambling to send in applications quickly as early-decision deadlines hit in early November. For students, there are few differences in this year’s application process from last year. But the same can’t be said for higher education institutions, which have been under the Trump administration’s intense microscope for the past 10 months.
Among the more recent federal actions is a directive ordering universities to report additional information about students applying to their schools, including grade point average and test score data organized by race. The federal government says this data is needed to make sure colleges, specifically highly selective schools, are complying with a 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-based affirmative action.
Read more at OPB.
