An investigation by the Education Department into legacy admissions at Harvard University has sparked a fresh debate over the long-standing practice, as notoriously opaque college admissions processes ...

The college students who give campus tours for the admissions office may sound like confident ambassadors, but they sometimes have their own doubts about whether they’ve made the right college choice ...

A college admissions officer at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania accused supporters of former President Trump of tolerating “rape,” “xenophobia” and “homophobia” in a heated social media post. In ...

A college admissions officer at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania accused supporters of former President Trump of tolerating "rape," "xenophobia" and "homophobia" in a heated social media post. In ...

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Programs offering “direct admissions”—without a formal application–are spreading. The trend could accelerate in the the wake of the Supreme Court decision killing affirmative action. More than half of ...

Recently accepted to college? Now is the time to ask for more financial aid. Many schools require prospective students to make enrollment decisions by May 1. Financial advisers say this window is a ...

In what could be a national first, students working in the Hamilton College admissions office are trying to unionize. The campus tour guides and senior admissions fellows (who interview prospective ...

Student workers in Hamilton College's admissions office announced in August that they had petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to unionize. The NLRB counted the votes yesterday, and the ...