Last weekend, as Americans took down their skeleton decorations and kids across the country recovered from the previous night’s sugar shock, almost 200,000 high school seniors took part in an annual ...

Recent research shows the college application process has become a major source of stress for high school students. Over half rank applications as their most stressful academic experience, and nearly ...

Admissions officers spend about 10 minutes per application at large universities, and 15-30 minutes at selective smaller schools, according to industry insiders. So, students hoping to gain admission ...

The pressures of the process are causing some kids to reject college. Fact checked by Sarah Scott The college application ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Two Metro Nashville College Access Teachers created an interactive road map app for the college application process called College Leaps in an effort to help high school ...

With an Internet connection and the click of a mouse, today’s high school student has access to the world of higher education in fingertip reach. A student can walk the grounds of a college campus a ...

Students (and their parents) often wonder what they should be doing during each year of high school to avoid the stress of an anxiety-filled senior year. The truth is that much can be done, starting ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mary Frances Ruskell graduated in May from her high school in Columbia, South Carolina. The first round of admissions decisions for Clemson University came out on a December evening, ...

Parents walk a fine line when it comes to their children and college applications. Getting too involved will earn the title of “helicopter parent” and give your child the impression that you doubt ...

For many high school students, artificial intelligence only heightens the anxieties around applying to college. How much of their application will be read by a human? In 2024, Duke University ...

As more colleges experiment with using direct admissions rather than requiring student to first apply, the question becomes how much will this new practice change the college admissions landscape. An ...

NPR's Michel Martin discusses college admissions and athletic recruitment amid a pandemic with three people who have deep knowledge of the process: Jenny Rickard, Beth Arey and Ellen Zavian. We're ...