Once a senior decision-maker inside the admission departments of long-established universities, she now offers private guidance to families navigating the nuanced, complex, and constantly changing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five years ago, federal prosecutors in Boston rocked both the academic and entertainment worlds by unveiling charges against 50 ...

With less than a month before data is due, 81 percent of institutions recently surveyed say they are still working to collect ...

Inside Higher Ed assesses a year of dramatic change in college admissions and predicts what the landscape might look like in 2024. The past year brought seismic shifts to higher education, from the ...

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The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) and other student organizations are pushing the University to end legacy admissions preferences, while the California State Assembly considers a ...

O ne year ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively outlawed the consideration of a college applicant’s racial status. Then came a wave of public statements from institutions describing their ...

For the first time ever, Boston College this year surpassed 40,000 undergraduate applications...for 2,300 spots in the Class of 2026. As BC has continued to climb the rankings, becoming ever more ...

This article is featured in the 2025 Winter Carnival Edition. Perhaps no topic piques the interest — and anxieties — of college seniors more than the elusive admissions process. What goes on beyond ...

We all got into Princeton. The ordeal of college admissions was stressful enough for all of us, but an unsettling new book reveals just how unfair the process can be. Jerome Karabel, a sociology ...