A record 3 million applicants can't all get into their first-choice colleges. As acceptance letters go out, Kathleen Kingsbury on the latest admissions news.
As the college rejection letters pour in, Twitter boards are lighting up, proving brevity can be the soul of agony, too.
As acceptance letters hit mailboxes, record numbers of students could be stuck in waitlist limbo. In a Daily Beast exclusive, admissions officers dish about the tricks of getting in off the list.
Despite economic woes, record numbers have applied to the nation’s top universities, forcing Ivy League schools to adjust their acceptance rates downward.
With laid-off investment bankers snapping up jobs in retail and MBAs barely worth the paper they’re printed on, college seniors are approaching graduation day with a mixture of dread and resignation.
The recession is dramatically changing the college admissions game, as cash-strapped schools court students with ties to big donors. Why it's easier than ever to buy your way in.
Offering admission and financing to virtually every student who wants to enroll in college has resulted in a dropout rate of nearly 50%—and an incredible amount of money down the drain.
With college acceptance and rejection letters hitting mailboxes this week, the economic meltdown has already dramatically changed the game of getting in.
A record 3 million applicants can't all get into their first-choice colleges. As acceptance letters go out, Kathleen Kingsbury on the latest admissions news.
The charade in which schools solicit more applications than they need—just to improve their selectivity ratings—isn’t just underhanded, it’s cruel.
By helping your old college keep tuition high, you're also helping to keep less-wealthy students out, says our college-sophomore columnist, Zac Bissonnette.
With the economy tanking and lending down, who can afford tuition? From low prices to hefty scholarships to creative accounting, Kathleen Kingsbury ranks the schools with the highest marks in value.
Universities with shrinking endowments need to get creative about raising revenue: put the rare-book collections on eBay and ask the philosophy professors how they’d run the budget.
