Insights into Transfer Admissions

May 13, 2022 | Blog Posts

The week after The University of Virginia released its transfer admission decisions this past spring, Nick Anderson of The Washington Post sat down with admissions officers at the university to speak about the transfer admissions process and to review profiles of some...

USC Misreported Data to U.S. News & World Report

May 9, 2022 | Blog Posts

According to an investigation report released last Wednesday, April 27th, two deans from the University of Southern California repeatedly directed school officials to omit certain survey data from reports to U.S. News & World Report in order to boost their...

Stanford Receives $1.1 Billion Gift, Creates Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

May 5, 2022 | Blog Posts

John Doerr, a successful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and his wife Ann, have donated $1.1 billion to Stanford University, the largest donation in the university’s history and second largest to any university, according to Forbes and The Chronicle of Higher...

Supreme Court Allows Race-Neutral High School Admissions Policy to Continue Until Case Is Considered by 4th Circuit Court of Appeals

Apr 29, 2022 | Blog Posts

This past Monday, the Supreme Court announced its decision to temporarily allow the new race-neutral admissions policies adopted by the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, as reported by The New York Times. The high school had introduced new...

Federal Changes in Student Loans Forgiveness

Apr 28, 2022 | Blog Posts

Last week, the Department of Education announced changes to two of its student loan programs, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness and income-driven repayment (IDR) programs. These changes will “address historical failures in the administration of the federal student...