A report from San Francisco Chronicle: Applying to colleges is the starkest economic lesson most high school seniors learn. All of a sudden, unlimited desires (you want the best education possible) crash head-on into the reality of finite resources (you can only afford to spend so much on tuition). Some students and their parents don’t [...]

A report from IBNLive.com: HYDERABAD: Aspirants to medical education in the state are facing difficulties as no private or no private minority medical college is� following government guidelines on filling the management quota seats with eligible meritorious students. The C-category seats in private colleges and B-category seats in minority colleges should be filled according to [...]

A report from Huffington Post: 1. Parents often ask, “How can I get my son or daughter into the best, highest ranking college?” What does the word ‘ranking’ actually mean? From 20 years of working with student applicants, I have learned that this is the wrong question to ask. The more appropriate question is, “How [...]

A report from Herald & Review: CHICAGO — After months in limbo, Morgan Lundblad recently opened her long-awaited email from Harvard University to find only more uncertainty. She had been wait-listed. The senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Chicago had applied to a dozen of the nation’s most elite colleges. When the smoke cleared, Lunblad [...]

A report from Kansas City Star: CHICAGO – After months in limbo, Morgan Lundblad recently opened her long-awaited email from Harvard University to find only more uncertainty. She had been wait-listed.The senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Chicago had applied to a dozen of the nation’s most elite colleges. When the smoke cleared, Lunblad still [...]

A report from Chicago Tribune: After months in limbo, Morgan Lundblad recently opened her long-awaited email from Harvard University to find only more uncertainty. She had been wait-listed. The senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School had applied to a dozen of the nation’s most elite colleges. When the smoke cleared, Lundblad still did not have a [...]

A report from Reuters: By Stephanie Simon Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:42pm EDT (Reuters) – His academic record was spotty, but as he applied for graduate studies in the United States, Bo Guagua would have looked like quite a catch to many universities, according to researchers who study college admissions. The young man had deep [...]

A report from Wall Street Journal: By RACHEL LOUISE ENSIGN and MELISSA KORN ….. Read more

A report from Green Bay Press Gazette: Many high school seniors for months have been shuffling through the purgatory of the college admissions process. They are neither accepted nor rejected. They are the waitlisted. With growing numbers of seniors applying for “early action” from colleges — an abbreviated application process in the fall that promises [...]

A report from Wall Street Journal: By STEPHANIE BANCHERO A nonprofit advocacy group is pushing colleges of education to participate in an effort to rate their teacher-preparation programs, but many of the schools are balking, arguing the project is flawed. The nation’s 1,400 colleges of education have been criticized by the Obama administration and others [...]