When I was going through my college search in the early 1990s, I applied to four schools, got into all of them and chose Ithaca College in upstate New York. It offered the major I wanted, was close to ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. For decades, American higher education has been framed as an ...

Another May 1 - national college decision day - has come and gone, and with it millions of students have made their choice about which college they will attend in the fall. Their decisions have been ...

It would be a mistake to assume that your affluent clients can cover the cost of college for their children. The latest annual college pricing survey from the College Board dramatically illustrates ...

Editor’s note: John MacIntosh played squash and tennis at Princeton University before going on to a career in private equity and the nonprofit world. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his ...

Regarding Jeffrey Selingo’s “Choosing a School: The Elite College Myth” (Review, Aug. 30): There are more than economic reasons to attend top-tier schools. I graduated from Brown University with a ...

It’s no secret: college admissions have always been fiercely competitive. But as demand for higher education swells, applicant pools jumped 5% in just the past year, turning an already ruthless ...