And yet, when the numbers came in, several of the most selective colleges in the country reported the opposite results. Yale, ...

It is a very Ivy League thing to try to take credit for breaking America. I share David Brooks’s criticisms of a system that ...

A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school ...

Admissions officers don’t have time to read your autobiography, so they ask you to keep your personal statement brief. Most law schools limit you to two double-spaced pages, although some allow three ...

In recent years, the landscape of college admissions has been undergoing ... prestigious Ivy League schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. These essays often reflect students' political ...

With his wife, Abigail, the Harvard professor spent much of his career studying social mobility and the American Dream ...

Admissions counselors are placing greater weight on essays, extracurriculars ... impact in their community. For example, a 2023 report from the Harvard Graduate School of Education highlights ...

Visiting top college campuses is a critical step in the process of honing a balanced college list and setting goals for the college admissions process.

Thinking about life after high school graduation is a dreaded chore for some teens today, and many say the stress of the college application process and identifying a career path at such a young age ...

Colleges and universities earned Americans' mistrust by becoming more exclusive and less of a “lubricant” for social mobility ...

Jim Jump doesn’t buy David Brooks’s critique of the “meritocracy” but writes that his argument merits consideration ...