USC only introduced its Early Action (EA) program for first-year applicants during the 2022-2023 admissions cycle; yet, it will soon formally announce that it is introducing Early Decision for certain ...

In a continued push to make higher education more accessible, Tufts University has announced its groundbreaking Tufts Tuition Pact, set to launch for incoming students in Fall 2026. The initiative ...

Amherst College received 857 Early Decision (ED) applicants this admissions cycle, which represents a forty-three percent increase over last year. This led to a twenty-five percent ED admit rate, ...

Yale announced early this year that it would return to being a test-required institution for first-year applicants during the 2024-2025 admissions cycle, so it should come as no surprise that Yale ...

The admissions team at University of Washington has finished reviewing this year’s over 62,000 freshman applications, which represents another record breaking year, and it looks forward to sending ...

As we head into a new admissions cycle, University of California, Berkeley is announcing some changes in how it will consider applicants. UC Berkeley is joining the rest of the UC campuses in allowing ...

If you are taking AP, IB, or other very challenging high school courses, you should be planning to take SAT Subject Tests to impress college admissions committees; yet, many students have no clear ...

Northwestern University received a record 4,050 Early Decision applications this fall, and the Evanston, Illinois university is only accepting 1,073 of them ED, taking its ED acceptance rate down to a ...

So much of what you read, watch, or hear in the media is there to make you feel like it’s impossible to get into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale without ...

For many high school students, it’s easy to overlook the importance of extracurricular activities. While academics are essential, engaging in projects outside of the traditional classroom has ...

Success in the college admissions process often comes down to one word: differentiation. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense to think long and hard about what Common App essay prompt you respond to in ...

University of Massachusetts Amherst is gearing up to release all of its Early Action (EA) admission decisions on the evening of Wednesday, January 24 during an admissions cycle in which the public ...