Like Baylor, the University of Alabama Steered Many Low-Income Families to Parent PLUS Loans
How top universities boost prestige through aid tactics that favor wealthy students—while pushing low-income families into heavy debt.
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The SAT’s Not-Quite-Comeback
Despite a coordinated backlash against it, "test optional" admissions remains alive and well and delivering on its promise.
New Data Analysis Shows How Financial Aid Leveraging Is Harming Low-Income Students at Public Universities
As public universities provide wealthy students with discounts, they are charging low-income students an average net price of $18,000.
New Book Aims to Bring the Enrollment Management Industry Out of the Shadows
The book shows how the enrollment management industry is limiting social mobility in American higher education
A Fight Over the Future of the SAT and Test-Optional Admissions
For the College Board, the stakes could not be higher. This is not just about saving the test, but the businesses it has built around it.
Before Enrollment Management
To better understand what enrollment management is and what a radical change it represented, it is helpful to look to the past.
Enrollment Management Strikes Back at Syracuse
A university seeks to become more prestigious by enrolling fewer low-income and minority students.
A Cautionary Tale about the Gospel of Enrollment Management
According to the gospel of enrollment management, there's only one path to success: greater and greater exclusivity
COVID or Not, U.S. News Refuses to Budge on Using Average SAT Scores in Rankings
Despite the pandemic, U.S. News continues to use unreliable average SAT scores in the latest edition of its rankings.
The Story the Enrollment Management Industry Likes to Tell
The enrollment management industry’s greatest success has been shifting the blame for the harm it has done onto its customers
A Higher Ed Industry that Works in the Shadows
Despite the power and influence of the enrollment management industry, few people are aware of it or know what it does.
ACE’s Startling Discovery
Despite its power and influence, the enrollment management industry has received little attention in higher education policy discussions.
