Los Angeles — All day long they wrestled with the meaning of merit. On Thursday enrollment officials here discussed the term around which the admissions world revolves. How colleges assess and reward ...

LOS ANGELES -- As college presidents went to the White House Thursday to talk about new efforts to attract more low-income students to higher education, admissions leaders gathered here and talked ...

LOS ANGELES -- After a morning here in which admissions leaders and legal experts discussed strategies for colleges to look beyond the grades and test scores of applicants, Art Coleman said that it ...

Anyone with half a brain knows that grades and test scores aren't the only way to define "merit" in college admissions. Sometimes a good jump shot or batting average is "merit." Or a commitment to a ...

Los Angeles — Merit. It’s the star around which the admissions profession revolves, and a major theme in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Nonetheless, the ...

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AMERICANS justify their country's comparatively high social inequality by emphasising its equality of opportunity. The implication is that it is talent and hard work, not inherited privilege, which ...

How we define merit could explain women's issues in the tech industry -- and elsewhere in the working world. From Patricia Arquette's passionate Oscars battle cry about gender pay disparity to the ...

After years of complaints that the prestigious National Merit Scholarships shortchange academically gifted girls, the College Board has agreed to change the qualifying test. Even the board’s own ...