For the last several years, around mid-April, I've seen headlines that say something along the lines of, "College acceptance rates hit record low." Frank Bruni, who for many years wrote a New York Times column about college and college admissions, published a column on March 30 in which he stated that Stanford's acceptance [...]
You've received your acceptance letters, and, if you're lucky, you're now facing the arduous task of choosing among several great options. On the other hand, you may be upset that you didn't get into your top choice school(s) and now have to select from "less desirable" colleges. For many students, [...]
Whoever decided that April 1 should be the national notification deadline for college admissions decisions had a rather twisted sense of humor: "Hey, let's make April Fool's Day the final day for high school students to find out if they were admitted to or denied from the colleges of their [...]
