[Read how the college admissions scandal further fuels debate on the relevance of the SAT and ACT.] The tests, which also routinely face attacks that they heavily favor affluent students who can ...

The summer before senior year of high school is a critical time for students to make progress on the college application process. Before the busyness of the school year starts and fall and winter ...

Stanford sociologist Mitchell Stevens spent 18 months embedded with admissions officers at an unnamed top-tier liberal arts college and found that, even in cases where students were within the ...

Students who are thrilled with the outcome of their college application process typically have one quality in common: they followed a strategic timeline as they methodically moved through their high ...

According to Eva Ostrum, an independent educational consultant with over 15 years of experience in college admissions, in many cases, including with highly selective state schools, ...