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 ...

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 ...

Tennessee has become the latest state to introduce an automatic college admissions strategy, launching a direct college admissions program this fall. As part of the Tennesee Direct Admissions program, ...

York College of Pennsylvania is one of nearly 70 colleges and universities across the nation to join the Common App’s direct admissions program. This program will provide more than 200,000 ...

Two years ago, Boston College created Messina College, a unique program offering first-generation, high-financial-need ...

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 ...