Articles The Perils and Possibilities of an America Without Affirmative Action Phillipe CopelandOct 26, 2012
Articles How One Chicago School Got Every Low-Income Student to College 100 percent of seniors at Chicago's Gary Comer College Prep have been accepted to four-year universities.James Troupis10 May, 2012
Articles Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't More than 60 percent of students who qualify to take an AP exam never do. Guess who's getting left behind?Liz Dwyer13 Feb, 2012
Articles Can a Facebook App Get High School Students Into Their Dream Schools? Acceptly wants to help high school students hack the college admissions process.Liz Dwyer15 Jan, 2012
Articles In College Admissions, Student Volunteers Have a Competitive Edge Highly selective schools want applicants who are committed to one issue for multiple years.Liz Dwyer09 Dec, 2011
Articles More College Applicants, More Students Waitlisted The most recent data from the National Association for College Admission Counseling shows college enrollment is on the rise.Liz Dwyer24 Oct, 2011
Articles College Admissions Officers Are Definitely Checking Your Facebook Page Record numbers of college admissions officers admit they're checking out applicants' Facebook pages. Is it time to scrub your digital footprint?Liz Dwyer15 Oct, 2011
Articles After 94 Years, Tiny Deep Springs College Goes Coed After 94 years and plenty of debate, the tiny nontraditional school is going coed. Two alumni reflect on the decision.Liz Dwyer24 Sep, 2011
Articles New Service Promises a Crystal Ball for College Admissions Parchment.com uses data to show students colleges that are likely to accept themLiz Dwyer21 Sep, 2011
Articles Now You Can Tweet Your Way Into an MBA Program Forget writing application essays. The University of Iowa's MBA program only requires 140 characters, and you might get a $37,000 scholarship, tooLiz Dwyer10 Jul, 2011
Articles The New Role of Money in Admissions: Is This the End of the Meritocratic Ideal? Under a disturbing new proposal, students would be able to buy a guaranteed spot at Oxford and other top English universities.Liz Dwyer13 May, 2011
Articles Rejected From College: If You're a Woman, A Less-Qualified Man Probably Took Your Spot Men are getting a leg up in the admissions game, all in favor of "gender balance."Liz Dwyer27 Apr, 2011
Articles Do Rich White Kids Automatically Think They're Harvard Material? According to counselors, low-income black students need to be talked up into applying to elite schools. Well-off white students need talking down.Liz Dwyer25 Apr, 2011
Articles Extra Credit: Stressed Out Studentsp Standardized testing and college pressure: what we're reading at GOOD Education HQLiz Dwyer25 Mar, 2011
Articles Meet the Facebook App That Predicts College Admissions Want someone to tell you if you have a shot at getting into your dream school? Now there's an app for that.Liz Dwyer11 Feb, 2011
Articles College Admissions and Affirmative Action: In Texas it's Still Legal A court says the University of Texas at Austin can consider race as an admissions factor. With college admission so competitive, are they right?Liz Dwyer23 Jan, 2011
Articles @GOOD Asks: Should Colleges Accept the Same Number of Men and Women Regardless of Who Applies? Answers GOOD readers tell us their thoughts on whether gender should influence college admissions: " Academics should not have a gender quota, race quota, or religion quota."Hillary Newman20 Dec, 2010