Higher Ed Insights
Clear analysis of global higher education, admissions, and the policies shaping student mobility.
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The acceptance rate on the website isn't the one that matters
At schools that admit by major, the number a family sees on the admissions homepage can run five, ten, even twenty times more generous than what a specific major admits
Accreditation, financial aid, testing policy: most of what this newsle...
The Department of Education rewrote who gets to accredit a college
A rule most families have never heard of decides whether a degree means the same thing at graduation as it did on move-in day, and the public comment window closes September 21.
Accreditation decides which colleges can hand out federal fin...
Ivy League schools spend $75,000 per student, state flagship spend $14,200.
A new paper shows the spending gap between selective and non-selective colleges has tripled since 1969, and most of what drives it has nothing to do with admissions criteria at all.
In 2019, Ivy League schools spent an average of $75,000 p...
NACAC stopped asking this question in 2009. Everyone kept citing the answer.
A statistic quoted across the profession traces back to a single NACAC survey nearly two decades old.
An article on college acceptance rescission, dated August 4, 2026, quotes NACAC’s associate director of research citing the association’s...
What actually belongs in a junior's first 60 days
Late August is when most practices sign the next cohort. Here's what's genuinely still open this fall, what already isn't, and what the PSAT actually does that most families assume it doesn't.
A family walks into an intake session this wee...
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