Nearly 600 colleges consider an applicant’s legacy status during their admissions process, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education. That’s almost a third of the ...

EVERETT — This school year, hundreds of seniors in Snohomish County will receive college acceptance letters before they even apply. Some already have. Local educators say the state’s new ...

Did you know that depression, anxiety, and substance abuse rates are greater for wealthy teens than for any other demographic ...

Applying to schools is really stressful. But what if all that went away and colleges applied to you? Today on the show” Tag, You’re In!” [Kirk] Direct admission is now used by hundreds of schools ...

The good news is that nearly all of the reasons a college may revoke your admission are within your control. If you follow a few common-sense tips, you're quite unlikely to run into a problem with ...

Try not to manage the college admissions process for your almost-adult children. Once you’re reasonably sure your student understands the process and the general timeline, back off. It’s hard ...

Because most families misunderstand what top colleges are ... gauge their odds of acceptance — but these numbers can be significantly misleading. For instance, if you’re applying to an out ...

“You’re going to get in somewhere, and you’re going to get into somewhere decent.” Separate data from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC, shows that 78 percent of ...