Colleges, swamped by applications from increasingly anxious high schoolers, are changing their admissions rules to weed out applicants who try to game the system by getting easy A's or plagiarizing their essays. Interviews with admissions officers at some of the nation's most popular...

Of all the myths swirling around the college admissions process, the ones involving financial aid are probably the biggest whoppers. Financial aid misconceptions can easily hurt families, which is why parents with a working knowledge of financial aid will often have a greater chance of...

Most of the attention during this admission season is on high school seniors, which means transfer students often get lost in the shuffle. That's a shame since a sizable number of college students end up transferring every year. According to special report from the National Association for ...

The NACAC/U.S. News & World Report Ad Hoc Committee recently published the next phase of its study on the attitudes of college admission counseling professionals toward the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. This report is called How NACAC Members Use U.S. News & World Report...

There's a lot going on at this time of year, and in today's post I'd like to give you a heads-up on a few different issues: Fewer LSAT Takers This Year The good news: 10 percent fewer people took the LSAT this October than last October according to the Most Strongly Supported blog. However, MSS...