‘Affirmative Action for the Rich’
The ban on affirmative action has put pressure on selective colleges to end legacy preferences in admissions. But the advantages of...
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Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action
Justices deem admissions programs at both Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill to be unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court declared Thursday...
Caught off Guard by AI, Professors scrambled to react to ChatGPT this spring — and started planning
Shelby Kendrick, a teaching assistant at the University of California at Berkeley, started playing around with ChatGPT in February, a few...
Guidelines for accepting college financial aid
If a student in your household applied for college financial aid for the 2023-2024 year, financial aid offers should arrive soon. You may...
Top 3 Reasons NOT to Trust Rankings
This week the US News and World Report rankings of colleges came out. Over the years, I have written extensively about this topic, in...
SAT Is Making Significant Changes, Here’s What You Need To Know
The College Board scrapped plans to offer an at-home version, so students are still required to travel to testing centers to take the...
UC could grow by 33,000 California students, equivalent of new campus, to meet surging demand
The University of California, facing record surges in applications, could increase seats for California students by as many as 33,000 by...
Amid student housing crisis, UCLA becomes first UC campus with four-year room guarantee
Ever since UCLA built its first four dorms six decades ago, in a quest to shift away from being a commuter campus, the university has...
Friends Don’t Let Friends US News
Why on earth are you looking at the US News rankings? Come to think of it, it’s hard to say just what the rankings tell you about you and...
California is failing to meet demand for UC admission. Why it’s a crisis
A troubling undercurrent belies the University of California’s celebratory news that it has admitted the largest and most diverse class...
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