HUNTINGTON — Marshall University President Brad Smith says the university is “navigating the headwinds” created by the problems with he federal financial aid form, the FAFSA. Smith told members of the Marshall University Board of Governors at the board’s meeting this week that ...
The standardized test, badly battered in recent years as universities moved to more holistic admissions models during the COVID pandemic, isn’t down for the count quite yet — and that’s a good thing for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This month, Dartmouth became the ...
by Jay Mathews There is nervousness in the homes of ambitious American high school students awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. Will the justices upend preferences for certain racial and ethnic ...
The former college admissions consultant who cooked up a multimillion-dollar scheme to fraudulently admit kids of wealthy clients, including Hollywood celebrities, into elite U.S. colleges was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison last Wednesday, closing a sordid chapter on the unfair world of ...
by Hans A. von Spakovsky In a 2007 Supreme Court decision involving a school district in Seattle, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Its recent acceptance of two cases, one ...
WVU Today As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the ability of many college-bound high school students to take either the ACT or the SAT, West Virginia University has joined a growing list of institutions extending a relaxation of test score requirements in its admission ...