college admissions

America’s elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the relatives of alumni.

The administrators of the SAT say the exam will move from paper and pencil to a digital format

The conservative-dominated Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 on the agenda

As the pandemic’s economic impact continues to weigh heavily, college enrollment is down for the second year in a row.

To get any assistance, students must file a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which serves as the gateway to scholarships, grants, work-study and loans.

Here are the schools that are doling out the most aid to offset the cost of college, according to The Princeton Review.

The justices Monday put off a decision about whether they will hear an appeal claiming Harvard discriminates against Asian American applicants, in a case that could have nationwide repercussions

Here are the schools that are doling out the most aid to offset the cost of college, according to The Princeton Review.

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.

It’s a moment New Haven’s Daniel Reyes has worked hard for. Surrounded by family, the Achievement First Amistad High School senior saw online he’s now accepted into Yale University. “I felt a bunch of pressure on me,” said Reyes, who still says it’s hard to believe after a year that was unbelievable. He says it was a support team...

New Haven student Daniel Reyes was overcome with emotion when he learned he had been accepted into Yale University.

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,...

Students have had to make some major adjustments in the classroom since the coronavirus pandemic struck last spring. For high school seniors there’s one more big change: the college admissions process. With SAT tests canceled, and college tours suspended, picking where they’re going to spend the next four years has never been harder for some students. NBC Connecticut spoke...

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.