education admissions. It illuminates current higher education admissions practices in a global context, highlighting common … defines much-needed changes in admissions brought about by shifts in the makeup of student populations and in higher education …, philosophies, and historical circumstances facing higher education admissions across the globe and will be equipped to contemplate …

This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or … students' large administrative dataset. My central finding is that, on average, universities with less specialised admission … policies admit a pool of students who obtain a higher final GPA. …

I study a college-admissions model with two need-blind colleges and heterogeneous students. In a game in which colleges … worse off but make all students and the other college better off …

propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students … who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm …