Posted on: 23 Sep 2026
Walk into any Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, or public library around the holiday season and at least a few tables will be occupied by teen/middle-age dyads, with the older member asking things like, “Why our college?” or “What’s your favorite activity?” These days, just as many of those conversations happen through a laptop camera, with […]
Posted on: 17 Sep 2026
Colleges publish the GPAs of the students they enroll. Those numbers are not as comparable as they look, and the most selective schools often do not publish them at all. Every year, nearly every college in the country fills out the same form. The Common Data Set asks for admissions and enrollment figures in a […]
Posted on: 10 Sep 2026
Fulbright publishes the application count behind every institution’s grant total. Almost nobody looks at that column. On February 3, 2026, the Fulbright Program named 114 colleges and universities as Top Producing Institutions for the 2025-2026 award year. Announcements followed within days. Brown reported 41 student grants and a tenth straight year in the top three. […]
Posted on: 03 Sep 2026
Seventy-two percent of Washington and Lee undergraduates belong to a fraternity or sorority. At New York University the figure is 2 percent for men and 5 percent for women. Both numbers come from the same reporting form. Greek life is one of the few things about a college that a seventeen-year-old will have a firm […]
Posted on: 21 Aug 2026
In August 2026, two universities raised their income lines within a week of each other. Rice announced free tuition for families earning up to $200,000, beginning with students entering in fall 2027. Boston University matched the $200,000 figure days later and started it this fall, capping family contributions at $20,000. Neither was an isolated move. […]
Posted on: 21 Aug 2026
Villanova University’s acceptance rate has fallen to roughly 27%, well below where it stood a decade ago. Admitted students post strong test scores, and you typically need mostly A’s in AP and honors courses to have a serious shot. Writing an excellent Common App essay and Villanova supplemental essay are also incredibly important pieces of […]
Posted on: 21 Aug 2026
Admission is highly competitive at Wake Forest University, a mid-sized private school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They accept roughly one-fifth of applicants, and standards are high. Nearly 70% of enrolled students finished in the top decile of their high school class. At a school that turns away four of every five applicants, every aspect of […]
Posted on: 21 Aug 2026
Yale’s acceptance rate of roughly 4.6% for the Class of 2029 is not the type of number you want to glide past with blind optimism. It is not our intention to inject unnecessary anxiety into the highly selective admissions process, since you likely have plenty of sources for that already. Rather, we feel it is […]