If you work long enough in education, you see that most academic trends swing through extreme phases like a pendulum. College admissions trends have followed suit, especially regarding standardized ...

A committee of the UNC System Board of Governors wants to change universities’ admission standards to give schools more flexibility in what students they admit. If a proposal is approved by the full ...

Northern Illinois University is getting rid of standardized tests next year, joining a growing contingent of colleges that are minimizing the role of SAT and ACT scores in undergraduate admissions.

For generations, two numbers have signaled whether a student could hope to get into a top college: his or her standardized test score and his or her grade-point average. In the past 15 years, though, ...

I’ve been skeptical of the claim by colleges they care more about grades than test scores, but the University of Georgia may turn me into a believer. UGA says its main criteria are the rigor of the ...

It seems some are willing to do the unthinkable to get into college these days. After a celebrity college admissions scandal swept the nation earlier this month, it seems clear that getting into ...

GPA is a system used in high schools and colleges, mainly in the US, to measure a student’s performance and academic achievement. GPA is calculated by converting grades or percentages you receive for ...

Students’ high-school grade point averages are five times stronger than their ACT scores at predicting college graduation, according to a new study from the University of Chicago Consortium on School ...

September 8, 2015, will look a lot different than March 8, 2015, did for Jesse Love. Six months ago Love was a student at Battle Creek Central High School. It's a school where metal detectors and ...