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Enrollment Surge for Women

Thanks to improved outreach efforts, engineering and technology universities are seeing a boost in female enrollments nearly across the board.

New View of Admissions

Tufts sees early success in adding measures of creativity, practicality and wisdom to traditional criteria for evaluating applicants.

Looking for Male Students

A college with 60 percent female enrollments looks for ways to narrow the gender gap.

Growing Challenge to 'U.S. News'

In the two weeks since 12 college presidents started a challenge to the way U.S. News & World Report ranks...

'The Power of Privilege'

Conventional wisdom and plenty of books tell a story of how the post-World War II years saw a great shift...

Another Rankings Fiasco at 'U.S. News'

Portland State University's engineering college has been transformed into "a national and international academic and research institution." The excellence of...

Fooling the College Board

To demonstrate flaws of SAT writing test, MIT professor coached student on how to get a good score on a lousy essay -- and pulled it off.

Making Holistic Admissions Work

Oregon State model may avoid legal pitfalls -- while improving both diversity and retention.