college admissions

Pre-pandemic, colleges granted spots to about 20% of waitlisted applicants, but that number falls to just 7% at the most selective colleges.

Students returning from a gap year caused by COVID-19, as well as schools making tests optional for admissions, have made the college admissions landscape much tougher for high school seniors with their heart set on their dream schools this year.

The College Board is removing the optional essay from the SAT and doing away with subject tests amid a changing college admissions landscape

With early admissions largely decided, high school seniors face a grim reality: The Covid pandemic is making it harder to get into the nation’s top schools.  

The pandemic and changing attitudes about studying in the U.S. have caused a drastic drop in the number of students coming to this country from abroad.

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling clearing Harvard University of discrimination against Asian American applicants. Two judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston rejected claims from an anti-affirmative action group that accuses the Ivy League University of imposing a “racial penalty” on Asian Americans. The decision delivers a blow to the group,...

Federal prosecutors urged a judge Monday to accept deals that call for “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin to spend two months in prison and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, to serve five months for paying half a million dollars to bribe their daughters’ way into college.

Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, will plead guilty today via video conference for their involvement in the “Varsity Blues Scandal.”

A woman who was locked up five months in a Spanish prison after her arrest in the college admissions bribery scheme won’t spend any more time behind bars.

A former California business executive has been sentenced to two months in prison for paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit. Jeffrey Bizzack, of Solana Beach, California, was sentenced in Boston’s federal court Wednesday. The 59-year-old pleaded guilty in July to a single count of fraud and conspiracy.

The former chairman of a global law firm was sentenced Thursday to one month in prison for paying $75,000 to rig his daughter’s ACT exam. Gordon Caplan, 53, of Greenwich, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in May to a single count of fraud and conspiracy in a deal with prosecutors. He is the fourth parent to be sentenced in a sweeping college...

Illinois lawmakers held a hearing Thursday to discuss a new college admissions scandal hitting campuses across the state.

Upset parents and students have started suing schools and those involved in the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Two Stanford students on Thursday filed what they hope to be a class-action lawsuit against the private university and other elite universities, claiming that their degree doesn’t “worth as much as” before. In addition, Bay Area parent Jennifer Kay Toy is asking...

Upset parents and students have started suing schools and those involved in the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Two Stanford students on Thursday filed what they hope to be a class-action lawsuit against the private university and other elite universities, claiming that their degree doesn’t “worth as much as” before. In addition, Bay Area parent Jennifer Kay Toy is asking...

Paying for a college education can be daunting: A four-year public university can cost $19,000 a year on average, while the priciest private nonprofit schools can cost near $70,000, according to the College Board. But even if students and their families are disappointed by paltry financial aid packages, there are still numerous sources of financial aid that can help students...