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Admissions decisions for regular decisions applicants in the incoming class of 2026 were sent out on Wednesday, March 23. The notification time stayed true to Colgate’s tradition of honoring the number 13, with the university releasing their decisions to prospective students at exactly 8:13 p.m. EST.   Last year, Colgate received its largest number of...

Stanford University’s first-year student admissions rate dropped to an all-time low of 3.68% for its current freshman class, recently published data shows.

For colleges, admissions is a business. And business is booming.

Harvard and UNC's defense is based on the perceived need for racial diversity; but how do they justify treating "Hispanic" as a Racial Classification.

The documents, widely requested as part of faculty-job searches for over a decade, have lately become controversial.

UC Riverside registered the second largest year-to-year increase in freshmen applications for fall 2023 among University of California campuses, setting a new campus record for applications. Numbers released Friday by the UC system show that overall applications were down 2.2%, while UCR showed a 3.7% increase, with 2,097 additional applicants than during the fall 2022 cycle. 

Cornell students heading to Vanderbilt University for the Clinton Global Initiative University 2023 Annual Meeting will work on solutions for challenges facing their campuses, communities and the world. 

JMU Early Action acceptance decisions have officially gone out for the class of 2027, revealing yet another drastic increase in applicants and a rise in the diversity of those applying.

Staff Writer Morgan Blair spoke with Stephen Poulson, a sociology professor whose research has led him to finding racist depictions and imagery in college yearbooks, including at JMU. Experts say

The early bird gets into their top choice school, so they say (don’t they?). It’s never a bad idea to be ahead of the game, especially when it comes to college applications. Is it Worth it to be an Early Bird? Beyond simply reducing stress, applying early action or early decision can have measurable benefits,