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Admissions game getting riskier

With college acceptance rates continuing to fall this year, college counselors and admissions experts say they expect the race to get into college will only […]

Princeton frosh sues over exam time

A Princeton freshman who claims she was denied double time on examinations to compensate for her learning disabilities is suing the university, according to an […]

Admit rate stays flat, waitlist swells

Yale College tied its record for the lowest admit rate on the books, accepting 7.5 percent of applicants to the class of 2014, the same […]

Admit rate holds steady

Yale College admitted 7.5 percent of its applicants to the class of 2014, equaling last year’s record low rate. The College made a total of […]

Harvard, and other colleges, post record low admit rates

(Photo: Bloomberg) While regular decision applicants to Yale’s Class of 2014 will have to wait until this evening to find out their admissions decisions, a […]

Legacies face family pressure

As a child, Christopher Reid ’10 wore Yale pajamas and visited Mory’s regularly. His father, Michael Reid ’75 DIV ’79, and his grandfather, Ogden Reid […]

‘Insider’ talks college process

Karen Stabiner is the author of “Getting In,” a new novel that chronicles the lives of five high school seniors applying to college. Stabiner, who […]

Early admits fight senioritis

When friends see Clarissa Marzán, a high-school senior from New York City accepted early to Yale’s class of 2014, doing schoolwork, they often seem confused. […]

Student loans bill clears House

The passage of the Health Care and Education Affordability Act by the U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday could reduce costs for Yale students and […]

QuestBridge applications up

The QuestBridge Program, a non-profit organization that has matched low-income applicants with Yale for three years, saw the greatest number of its students admitted early […]

Knowing when 17-year-olds will say ‘yes’

That’s why I chose Yale Williams: In a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, three researchers are trying to gain […]