Higher Ed Insights
Clear analysis of global higher education, admissions, and the policies shaping student mobility.
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A student can apply Restrictive Early Action to Notre Dame, Early Action to Georgetown, and Early Action to a state flagship, all in the same November. Two of those three call themselves "restrictive.
The word "restrictive" means something different at every school that uses it, and getting the specific difference wrong risks an actual rescinded offer, not just a stern email.
Five schools that dominate the early-round conversation, Harv...
A Turnitin score of 100% cost one family over $100,000 in legal fees to erase. A New York judge ruled the university never had grounds to believe it in the first place.
The same detectors, with the same documented bias, are already screening college application essays, and almost no admissions office will say so directly.
In January, a New York state court ordered Adelphi University to erase a finding of...
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Washington residents get into UW computer science at roughly 10 times the rate of international applicants, and that's not even the mechanism most families expect
Three flagship public universities run three genuinely different systems for who actually gets the major they were admitted for, and none of them match what most college lists assume.
This piece reflects Fall 2026 admissions data. Where a...
Applications to the most selective colleges grew 3% this year. Every other tier grew at least 5%.
Common App's newest data shows where the growth in college applications actually went this season, and it wasn't where most families assume.
Common App published its end of season report for the 2025-26 cycle 3 weeks ago, and buried in it...
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