Posted on: 23 Jul 2026
In the fall of 2021, Miami received 1,511 Early Decision applications and admitted 978 of them. Four cycles later it received 2,395 and admitted 1,062. The pool grew by 59 percent, the number of offers moved by fewer than a hundred, and the early admit rate fell from roughly 65 percent to 44 percent. Nothing […]
Posted on: 23 Jul 2026
For the class that entered in Fall 2024, USC did something it had never done before: it opened an early action round. Applications were due November 1, decisions went out January 19, and nothing about the plan was binding. The change looks modest next to the binding early decision programs that dominate selective private admissions, […]
Posted on: 22 Jul 2026
The University of Texas at Austin reports an overall acceptance rate that has slid from about 32 percent to 27 percent over five years. For most applicants, that number describes a competition they will never enter. Texas law, not the admissions office, decides the largest share of the class, and it decides on a single […]
Posted on: 22 Jul 2026
For the Fall 2021 entering class, 40,878 students applied to the University of Virginia. For Fall 2025, that number reached 64,457. One cycle later, for the Class of 2030, it crossed 82,000. In four years the applicant pool grew by more than half, and the overall admit rate fell from roughly 23 percent to under […]
Posted on: 21 Jul 2026
In July 2025 the federal government suspended roughly 800 research grants at UCLA, about $584 million in awards, and followed with a proposed settlement that reached $1.2 billion. A federal judge restored most of the grants across September and November and blocked the payment demand as unlawful coercion. For the most applied-to university in the […]
Posted on: 20 Jul 2026
Sociology is the scientific study of human society: how social structures form and change, how institutions shape behavior, how inequality is produced and reproduced, and how collective action transforms the social world. It is one of the broadest and most methodologically diverse disciplines in the university, ranging from quantitative demographic analysis to ethnographic fieldwork to […]
Posted on: 20 Jul 2026
History is one of the oldest and most versatile academic disciplines, the systematic study of human experience across time, from the ancient world to the present day. At its best, a history education develops the capacity for critical analysis of evidence, narrative construction, contextual reasoning, and careful argumentation, skills with broad applicability to law, public […]
Posted on: 15 Jul 2026
English is the foundational humanities discipline, the study of language, literature, and the craft of writing across history and cultures. At its best, an English degree trains students in close reading, argumentation, research synthesis, and the sustained labor of revision that produces strong prose. These are skills with broad applicability: English graduates enter journalism, publishing, […]