"Limiting yourself to school-sponsored clubs and activities won't set you apart." This post appeared first in Mamasuncut - ...

Kate Stone, founder of Kate Stone Prep, says that not all extracurricular activities are created equal. "Anything that ...

Going to college is the next step in many high school graduates’ academic journeys. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that around 62% of recent high school graduates were enrolled in ...

Highly-ranked programs for specific fields, like business or engineering, exist at universities with higher acceptance rates.

This post was updated Nov. 26 at 10:23 p.m. Take the maximum number of Advanced Placement classes you can fit into your schedule. Be your class president. Get fives on your AP exams. Be a varsity ...

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

It can be difficult for you to separate yourself from your candidacy in selective admission pools. You might wonder: “What ...

With non-stop headlines about falling admission rates and rising tuition costs, it’s easy for families of high school students to stress out about applying to college. Lindsay Tanne, founder and CEO ...

Sharply restricting how schools consider race will spark change and uncertainty. Thursday's decision by the Supreme Court ends affirmative action in higher education as we know it, even as it allows ...

A high school student, meeting for the first time with a college admissions counselor, felt he’d messed up his chances at ever being accepted at a top university because of missteps in his early high ...

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, ...