It’s that time of year again when high school seniors who applied to their top-choice college via early decision (a binding process in which students agree to attend if accepted) are beginning to ...

College applications are a family affair and many parents bear financial costs, guide big decisions, and support kids through ...

A new federal lawsuit accuses 32 elite colleges of engaging in an “early decision conspiracy" that inflates the tuition paid by students. A class-action lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mary Frances Ruskell graduated in May from her high school in Columbia, South Carolina. The first round of admissions decisions for Clemson University came out on a December evening, ...

As the New Year picks up, so does the second semester of the school year — and with it, hundreds of thousands of high school students across the United States who are hoping to receive an acceptance ...

Waiting to hear whether you’ve been accepted by one or several of the colleges you applied to can be agonizing, especially if you have a top choice. But while it’s easier said than done, try not to be ...

After meticulously polishing application materials, hitting submit during the early admissions round, and enduring the agonizing wait for an admissions decision, thousands of students opened their ...

Last weekend, as Americans took down their skeleton decorations and kids across the country recovered from the previous night’s sugar shock, almost 200,000 high school seniors took part in an annual ...

Princeton's easy to get into, really. A whopping 1,600 out of 14,500 applicants are accepted each year, about 11 percent. Just compare that to two-and-a-half year olds applying to New York City's 92nd ...

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For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever. Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges ...