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With students who entered high school during the pandemic starting to apply for places, admissions officers feel ill equipped to judge their readiness

This fall’s applicant cohort will be the first to have entered high school during the pandemic. Assessing their college readiness will be a challenge for admissions offices. Admissions officers and application readers at Emory University will gather at the Atlanta campus next week for their first training session of the admissions cycle. The training will cover a number of new topics, including how to build a diverse class while complying with the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action and how to identify essays written by ChatGPT.

Academic advising is a wicked problem for most colleges. Let’s stop pretending it’s not.

Professors and education officials are finding that, while new college students’ grades are not lower, they are less prepared for college work.

Many students whose last years of high school were disrupted by the pandemic are struggling in crucial college courses.