Technological change has both improved and impoverished the process of getting into college. The stakes feel different.

Some students are still mentioning their race or immigrant status as the Trump administration cracks down on diversity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People at the California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena on Aug. 8, 2024. (Ringo Chiu / For The Times) When prospective ...

When prospective Caltech students applied in the fall for early admission, some faced a new, technologically advanced step in the selection process at one of the nation's most prestigious universities ...

No application fee, no essay, no recommendation letters and guaranteed admission. It almost sounds too good to be true, but it’s all part of a new agreement announced by The Evergreen State College ...

Even with 200 essay readers, the school has struggled to keep up and found itself notifying students later and later. The AI tool can scan about 250,000 essays in under an hour, compared with a human ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The month of December is a major milestone for high school seniors who make the decision to start applying for college. The college admissions application process is changing ...

Students applying to college know they can’t — or at least shouldn’t — use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using ...