Harvard University, currently ranked 9th and 6th on Forbes' and The Wall Street Journal's latest college rankings, is the only institution to have received an "Abysmal" speech climate rating in FIRE's 2024 College Free Speech Rankings.
The original intent of standardized exams was to break the stranglehold that elite high schools had on elite colleges. As a recent study has shown, colleges that use standardized criteria more heavily in admissions are less likely to give preference to wealthy applicants. It is the wealthy who can more easily game the subjective criteria (essays, teacher recommendations, niche […]
The suit called 17 elite schools a "cartel" and "gatekeepers of the American dream" for defrauding students of hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid.
Thrive Scholars is a college preparatory program founded 20 years ago with the goal of helping students of color from low-income households — defined as those earning $75,000 or less a year — win seats at the nation’s top colleges. But the mission extends beyond that: it helps see participants through graduation with career counseling […]
"The higher education system is broken," said Colorado College President Song Richardson at the Department of Education's summit discussing the end of affirmative action.
Elite college presidents reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision banning affirmative action in college admissions on June 29 with near-universal disapproval. For all the hand-wringing, there is an easy way for institutions to legally refuse to comply with the Court and thus have the freedom to shape their incoming freshman classes using race as a […]
Economic diversity matters for its own sake: The dearth of lower-income students at many elite colleges is a sign that educational opportunity has been constrained for Americans of all races. To put it another way, economic factors like household wealth are not valuable merely because they are a potential proxy for race; they are also […]
It is an open secret that the most selective U.S. colleges largely admit the children of the wealthy. Graduates of these colleges go on to be greatly overrepresented among the ranks of the economic and political elite. It is a system that perpetuates class hierarchy within and across generations. Public shaming will do little to change it. To […]
The merger is the second announced in two years, which the president believes is "part of a strategic repositioning of the entire WVU System for success in a challenging collegiate landscape."
Gupta now joins an elite class of just a few thousand other students accepted to Stanford this year. The school had a historically low acceptance rate of just 3.6% of incoming freshmen. The increase in college applications has put pressure on admissions departments. Colleges are now receiving record numbers of applications, and they have to be more […]
