A report from Annapolis Capital: EDITOR’S NOTE: A collection of Anne Arundel education happenings of the week. High school students interested in learning more about college programs at Anne Arundel Community College or meeting college faculty will have the chance as part of a free career connection program next week. The Academic and Career Connection [...]

A report from Huffington Post: Admissions decisions for the college class of 2016 were recently released and what many anticipated turned out to be the case — acceptance rates dropped even more at many selective schools, including five of the eight Ivy League schools (where more than 240,000 applications were submitted for 23,000 spots). The [...]

A report from The Star-Ledger – NJ.com: www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwhoCertain colleges’ gates are closed to more and more students Is this anyone you know? Exceptionally bright, high GPA, incredible boards, strong extra-curriculars, all-around nice, motivated kids who didn’t get into their colleges of choice. Get used to it. Throw assumptions out the window. Take a look at [...]

A report from Contra Costa Times: College rankings, such as the one U.S. News & World Report has published each year since 1983, may provide some interesting reading, but they are hardly the sole basis on which anyone should choose which school to attend. In fact, the magazine itself agrees, telling readers, “Don’t rely solely [...]

A report from TIME: Gary Rold, dean of admissions at Elmhurst College poses on the campus in Elmhurst, Ill. The college in west suburban Chicago has become the first in the country to ask students directly on admissions applications about their gender identity and sexual orientation Jean Lachat / Chicago Sun-Times / AP This year, [...]

A report from TIME: Gary Rold, dean of admissions at Elmhurst College poses on the campus in Elmhurst, Ill. The college in west suburban Chicago has become the first in the country to ask students directly on admissions applications about their gender identity and sexual orientation Jean Lachat / Chicago Sun-Times / AP This year, [...]

A report from WSHM-TV: CHICAGO (WGN//CNN) – A small, liberal arts college will ask students about their sexual orientation on applications in the upcoming year. Elmhurst is a private liberal arts college with just 3,300 students, and it’s affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The new question on its admission application asks, “Would you [...]

A report from Chicago Sun-Times: BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com August 24, 2011 10:07PM Elmhurst College, the 4-year private liberal arts school in the western suburbs, makes history by being the first university in the country to ask students about their sexual identity (LGBT) on admissions applications. | Jean Lachat~Sun-Times Updated: August 25, 2011 5:10AM [...]

A report from News One: NEW YORK — The story was compelling when it was first broken several weeks ago by the New York Daily News — a 13-year-old Black whiz-kid named Autum Ashante accepted to the University of Connecticut, only to have that acceptance rescinded, and her fraught father calling for justice. But the [...]

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