U.S. colleges like Brown, Duke & Vanderbilt are reshaping admissions with video essays, letting students showcase ...

Brown University will reinstate standardized testing requirements for admission, joining Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on “test optional” policies adopted during the Covid pandemic. Brown ...

You've applied to your dream school, but what are the chances of getting in? The average admission rate for four-year colleges in the U.S. in between 68% and 72%, according to the National Association ...

Brown University President Christina Paxson has appointed a committee to review the school's admissions practices and their effects on diversity following the U.S. Supreme Court decision against ...

Legacy preferences in admission were originally conceived as a way to limit the number of Jewish students at highly-selective, elite institutions. But today, according to The Herald’s fall 2024 poll, ...

President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 vowed in March to seek public input from Brown community members on the use of familial preferences in admissions. Eight months later, she has only solicited ...