Mortgage applications rose 4.8% for the week ending December 5, 2025, with a notable increase in refinance activity. The refinance index surged 14% from the previous week, while the FHA rate hit its ...

File photo of Elizabeth Herrera, co-founder of Casa Azul de Wilson, leading a workshop to help students apply for federal student aid on December 12, 2024. Governor Josh Stein has declared the week of ...

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Students continue to pursue postsecondary education—particularly Latino and Black students—and a growing share of those applicants are choosing to submit SAT and ACT scores even when institutions are ...

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances, $806,500 or less, increased to 6.84% from 6.82% Applications to refinance a home loan fell 3% for the ...

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Katharine Paljug is a financial writer and editor with over a decade of industry experience. Her writing has covered nearly every aspect of the financial world, from investing in forex to paying for ...

The last two years have been one of the toughest job markets I’ve seen in decades. This isn’t like 2020 or 2021, where after the initial phase of the pandemic receded, jobs quickly reappeared. This ...

I'm a college admissions coach, and I've read thousands of applications. Successful students have proven adaptability, intellectual vitality, and executive functioning. These soft skills aren't easily ...

In 2025, despite a lot of negative economic headlines, mortgage purchase application data has shown positive year-over-year growth for 14 consecutive weeks. In today’s MBA purchase application survey, ...

If you've ever been to a dinner party where at least one guest is a lawyer, you've heard the speech: Don't go to law school unless you really, really want to be a lawyer. They'll tell you about the ...

AI isn't just taking over the workplace – it's taking over the before-the-workplace, too. Around 65% of job candidates are using AI at some point in the application process, according to the 2025 ...