Posted on: 09 Jul 2026
The 2025-26 admissions cycle saw the nine undergraduate University of California campuses collectively attract 250,000+ applications. This is a double-digit increase from four years prior. Logic would suggest that institutions receiving over 173,000 applications (UCLA) would not employ a particularly holistic admissions process. Certainly, not one that would give any weight to a supplemental essay, […]
Posted on: 30 Jun 2026
Biology has always been the gateway science. It is the major that leads to medical school, to graduate research, to careers in biotechnology and public health, and increasingly to the interdisciplinary fields, computational biology, genomics, and bioengineering, that are reshaping medicine and life science. It is also one of the most popular undergraduate majors in […]
Posted on: 30 Jun 2026
Georgetown University is one of the few highly selective American universities where the headline admissions numbers have barely moved over the past five years. The admit rate has held in a tight 12 to 13.5 percent band. The entering class has hovered around 1,580 students. Yield has slipped only modestly, from 48 percent to 44 […]
Posted on: 29 Jun 2026
Want to spend a couple of unproductive hours on the internet? Start by Googling “What should I major in?”. You’ll find countless articles with strong points of view. Some will sell the pragmatism of the hard sciences, engineering, or business. Others will tell you to pursue your dreams in drama, philosophy, or gender studies. Either […]
Posted on: 26 Jun 2026
Aerospace engineering is one of the most specialized and demanding undergraduate disciplines in the American university system. The field produces the engineers who design commercial aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, satellites, and the propulsion systems that make them fly. It is also a rare major. Roughly 6,000 bachelor’s degrees in aerospace engineering are awarded each year, and […]
Posted on: 26 Jun 2026
Stanford’s Common Data Set is one of the more useful institutional disclosures available, partly because peer schools file on the same template, and partly because the format forces the university to commit to specific numbers. Five consecutive years of filings, 2021–22 through 2025–26, cover a stretch in which the school made several consequential moves. Tuition […]
Posted on: 19 Jun 2026
KPMG funds the thinnest post-hire tuition reimbursement of the Big Four firms. It also runs what may be the most generous accounting-education pipeline anywhere in the Big Four. Both of those statements are true at the same time, and the apparent contradiction is the most useful thing to understand about how KPMG pays for degrees. […]
Posted on: 18 Jun 2026
A new analysis of more than 300 selective colleges ranks the top undergraduate feeder institutions to elite MBA programs, by raw volume, by enrollment size, and among schools that defy their selectivity tier. For ambitious undergraduates with their eyes on a corner office, the choice of college can feel like a critical first step on […]