Niche began its direct admissions pilot five years ago. This year, it says, its participating schools have already sent out ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mary Frances Ruskell graduated in May from her high school in Columbia, South Carolina. The first round of admissions decisions for Clemson University came out on a December evening, ...

Programs offering “direct admissions”—without a formal application–are spreading. The trend could accelerate in the the wake of the Supreme Court decision killing affirmative action. More than half of ...

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The days of applying to colleges individually and waiting weeks or months to learn if you were accepted are long past. Students applying for college admission can apply to multiple schools in single ...

A student guide leads families on a tour of Pace University in Pleasantville, New York, which is among colleges and universities streamlining admission. Credit: Emmanuel Guillén Lozano for The ...

A new initiative will grant 10,000 high school seniors in northern Utah direct admission to college — with no GPA requirements and no applications needed. It’s the latest in a string of similar ...

Nearly 600 colleges consider an applicant’s legacy status during their admissions process, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education. That’s almost a third of the more ...