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Cornell Sun: “Unlike many other colleges, which review all applications from a central undergraduate admissions office, Cornell has a...

The Wall Street Journal: “Harvard’s admissions office pays special attention to recruits from 20 U.S. states labeled internally as...

Duke Today: “Here’s a tip for high school seniors wondering how to ace the essay portion of the college application: Just be yourself.”...

The New York Times: “Transfer students — whose challenges have often been ignored in higher education — are feeling a surge in popularity...

The Wall Street Journal: “At the University of Notre Dame, the University of Virginia and Georgetown University, the admission rate for...

The New York Times: “Documents showing that Harvard rated Asian-American applicants lower on personality traits than applicants of other...

The Wall Street Journal: “Harvard hit a new low this year—in terms of its acceptance rate. The university admitted 4.6% of applicants, or...

The Wall Street Journal: “Admissions officers are traveling hundreds of miles with a live animal to inform high-school seniors they have...

The Wall Street Journal: “As application numbers surge, admissions officers at some elite colleges say they don’t have time to read an...

Business Insider: “Another year of early acceptance notifications, another year where the acceptance rates declined. Almost all eight...

The New York Times: “It’s a widespread misconception that applicants have an automatic right to be admitted to the school of their choice...

The Harvard Crimson: “Harvard College rescinded admissions offers to at least ten prospective members of the Class of 2021 after the...

The New York Times: “In the minds of parents and teenagers going through the college application process, May 1 is a magic date. At that...

The Atlantic: “While few colleges follow the same admissions playbook, they are all taking their cues from the invisible array of...

The Wall Street Journal: “Some of America’s most exclusive colleges have become even more exclusive. The eight members of the Ivy League...

The Wall Street Journal: “Claudia Vulliamy, of London, had several rounds of interviews and an overnight stay at Oxford University, where...

The New York Times: “Nearly all colleges … make use of two metrics to gauge student quality: cumulative high school grade point average...

The Wall Street Journal: “Anxiety over college admissions is reaching a fever pitch as high-school seniors await decisions from colleges...

The Wall Street Journal: “Admissions officers from some elite colleges say they still expect to see high-school transcripts loaded with...

From a review of The Happiness Effect, by Donna Freitas, in The Wall Street Journal: “The real downside of Facebook, Instagram and their...