Targeted coursework, relevant work experience and compelling essays can help offset a low undergraduate GPA, experts say.

Meanwhile, standardized test scores remained relatively constant, with some even decreasing. This can exacerbate economic inequities, as wealthier students often have access to resources that boost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Graduate school hopefuls with a less-than-stellar college GPA sometimes worry that their grades will prevent them from pursuing their ideal graduate degree. But experts say it is possible for grad ...

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 ...