Editor’s note: This is the fourth story in a collaborative series covering the state of Northwest college admissions in 2025. The first story in the series was published on Nov. 3. For some college ...

Colleges will be required to submit data to prove they do not consider race in admissions under a new policy ordered Thursday by President Donald Trump. In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against the ...

ST. LOUIS – More than 50 universities across the United States, including Washington University in St. Louis, are under federal investigation for alleged racial discrimination as part of President ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools.

Washington and Lee University announced today that it will no longer consider students’ or families’ ability to pay when evaluating applications for undergraduate admission thanks to a $132 million ...

The Washington State Cougars improved to 4–0 Friday night with a drama-filled 54–52 win over San Jose State in double overtime at Gesa Field—and did so despite a few critical miscues from coach Jake ...

Brown University will reinstate standardized testing requirements for admission, joining Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on “test optional” policies adopted during the Covid pandemic. Brown ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Miah Bressie, a high school senior from a small town in south-central Missouri, had barely heard of ...

Through all the self-dealing, social tension, and scandal, the cottage industry of grifters who pass for “college admissions consultants” has quietly prospered. This says much about the state of ...

University of Mary Washington’s Melissa Yakabouski and Sarah Lindberg have a combined 50 years of experience in college admissions. Photo courtesy of UMW. No time is quite so exciting as when a high ...

With the dust settled on the latest round of conference realignment musical chairs (at least, for now), there are four Pac-12 schools remaining without a clear home come 2024: Stanford, Cal, Oregon ...