Admissions

Two entrepreneurial Stanford students fed hundreds of essays—both high and low quality—into an AI model to train it on what top-tier colleges look for in admissions essays. 

Each year, a number of undergraduate seniors choose to re-enroll at their institution to further their graduate education. Helping these learners readjust to their alma mater can boost feelings of belonging.

Jim Jump considers the drop in underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students in MIT’s new entering class.

Nationally, completed applications from high school seniors are down by about 9.5 percent. A federal funding boost has helped some states over the summer—but only so much.

The Virginia women’s college made the change to comport with its founding documents, creating a stricter gender admissions policy than many of its peers.