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DURING a staff retreat last winter, Boston College’s admissions officers decided something had to change. Although the college was receiving more applications each year, increasingly larger shares of

April brings showers and college admission chatter.  We found this article by Liz Willen of  The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet that is an independently funded unit

While so much attention gets focused on colleges that have released their final admissions decisions, the reality is that many of the more than 2,000 colleges and universities

Like me, millions of high-school seniors with sour grapes are asking themselves this week how they failed to get into the colleges of their dreams. It's simple: For

Most low-income students who have top test scores and grades do not even apply to the nation’s best colleges, according to a new analysis of every high school student who

By Ian Mark, Newton North High School, Mass.  Printed in the Boston Globe Magazine. Every day I make choices. Some are minor (what do I wear to school?), some

Milan Patel, more power to you.  Milan, a 17 -year-old senior at Palm Harbor University High School in Palm Harbor, Florida, shared a poem that he wrote and

Another day, another story about some poor fool posting something they shouldn't to Facebook -- and losing their job in the process. I almost can't believe this is still a

By Dr. Michele Hernandes, former assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College, co-founder of Application Boot Camp On-Demand, and the author of several books on college admissions, for the