For students who are still muddling through the “I don’t know” phase of articulating what makes them tick, college ...

University of Miami has officially removed its supplemental essay for the 2026-2027 admissions cycle. Students will now only submit the main Common App essay. This is part of a growing trend among ...

Success in the college admissions process often comes down to one word: differentiation. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense to think long and hard about what Common App essay prompt you respond to in ...

USC only introduced its Early Action (EA) program for first-year applicants during the 2022-2023 admissions cycle; yet, it will soon formally announce that it is introducing Early Decision for certain ...

Yale is the second Ivy League college to officially release its 2023-2024 supplemental essay prompts for first-year applicants. Dartmouth released its supplemental prompts earlier this month. As most ...

Do you want to study business at a college in the U.S. South that’s not too big and not too small and (in many cases because of scholarship offers and/or in-state tuition) not too expensive? You’ve ...

Purdue University will release its Early Action (EA) decisions to first-year applicants through each EA applicant’s Purdue Application Portal starting at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 12.

For high achieving Jewish students, choosing a college in 2025 is a deeply personal decision that balances academic excellence with a culturally and religiously supportive environment. Recent years ...

John O. Gaines, Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Vanderbilt University, announced some interesting tidbits of information that should be of interest to students and others who want to learn ...

Joining a growing number of colleges and universities, James Madison University (JMU) will be rolling out a test-optional admissions policy for 2017-18. Students seeking admission will no longer be ...

A fully funded college fly-in program, like the one Amherst offers, is relatively rare. Less than 75 colleges in the US currently offer them. Such a fly-in is an all-expenses-paid campus visit ...

Today’s reader question comes from Darren in Washington, DC: Question: I’ve wanted to go to Texas for college for a long time, but my mom has recently asked me to consider other states near Texas as ...