This fall, high school seniors may find college acceptance letters in their mailboxes before they complete a single application. It’s not a scam — it’s a nascent college admissions program called ...

The state of Minnesota is seeing continued growth in its direct admissions program, an initiative that enables high school seniors to be proactively admitted to participating colleges and universities ...

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 ...

More than 300,000 people this month received acceptance letters from at least one college or university in their state − before they had even completed their applications. The prospective students ...

Admissions advice has become big business. Here’s what one industry veteran thinks you should look for—and avoid—when seeking help from an outside adviser.

New England College has signed up with Niche Direct Admissions, a program under which students who create a profile on Niche and meet NEC’s academic criteria receive an immediate offer of admission ...

SUNY Oswego has launched the Oswego Direct program to remove barriers in the college admissions process, such as waiving fees ...

A group of education leaders and experts representing both community colleges and four-year universities agreed during EdSource’s Wednesday roundtable discussion that dual admission might be one of ...

Idaho became the first state to offer direct college admissions in 2015. Since then, a handful of states have rolled out their own programs, and experts say that number is poised to increase in coming ...