The latest edition of Education Life, The Times’s quarterly supplement, will be published this weekend and, as always, there is lots of “news you can use” for college applicants and their families.
In an article published in collaboration with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Hoover tackles the subject of “Application Inflation” — the efforts by highly-selective colleges to recruit record-breaking numbers of applicants every year, only to reject the vast majority of them.
“Although the tension between mission and marketing has long defined admissions,” Mr. Hoover writes, “many believe the balance has tilted too far toward the latter.” You can read the full article here.
Separately, Abigail Sullivan Moore passes along the latest advice on the testing accommodations for students with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. “Perseverance pays,” she writes, in an article well worth examining in full.
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