Test-optional college admissions tilts the playing field just a little bit more, writes Kelly Ochs Rosinger, a Penn education professor, on The Conversation. More than 1,000 colleges no longer require applicants to submit an SAT or ACT score. “Instead of expanding economic and racial diversity at American colleges, test-optional policies have actually served to make selective colleges even more selective,” she writes, citing an analysis of 180 liberal arts colleges, including

University of California at Irvine tops Educate to Career’s college rankings, which compares how well colleges improve students’ labor market outcomes. This June, 54 percent of graduates were first-generation college students (and 43 percent came from Asian-American families.) University of California at Irvine ranked first nationwide in economic diversity in the New York Times’ College Access Index. Photo: Gilberto Cardenas/UCI In terms of economic value added, some flagship