"Executive functions are cognitive skills that are essential for high-level tasks that involve setting goals and carrying them out. Adults and teens use these skills every day for planning, problem ...

PHOENIX - In the aftermath of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned a system known as affirmative action from being used in the college admissions process, the battle is shifting to a system that ...

Legacy preferences in college admissions are in the news again, this time because a bill has been introduced in the New York State Senate that would end the practice. Senate Bill S4170, colloquially ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brennan Barnard writes about the nuances of college admission. Emily Pacheco is an assistant director of admission at Loyola ...

In 2025 kids will graduate from high school in record numbers, with almost four million students getting a diploma. Experts say the time to start thinking about the college application process is now ...

The conservative advocate who dismantled affirmative action is joining forces with a center-left Democrat and a Duke University economist to challenge another sacred cow in elite college admissions: ...

The 2023 death of affirmative action in college admissions at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court had at least one positive effect: It finally focused attention on the inherently biased system for ...

College admissions season is in full swing, with hundreds of thousands of high school seniors either painstakingly completing college applications or waiting anxiously to hear whether they’ve been ...