The cost of in-state college tuition in Virginia has gone down in the past five years when adjusted for inflation, but it's still higher than most of the U.S., according to the College Board.
As the number of "race unknown" students grows, it not only becomes harder to determine a student body's ethnic and racial diversity but also the impact of the ban on race-conscious admissions.
New Yorker Jenell Virgilio poured hours of research into her college decision. She consulted acquaintances. She noted advertisements on her phone. Soon, it became clear which college was the right fit for her. She would enroll out of her home state at the University of Pittsburgh, 350 miles southwest of her home in Syracuse. This […]
Since the US supreme court banned affirmative action in college admissions in June 2023, US colleges and universities have grappled with how to boost campus diversity amid recent, troubling data. The latest figures on US college admissions at some major universities have shown drops in Black, Latino and Indigenous first-year enrollment. Such enrollment fell sharply […]
Across the state, some schools are arranging creative housing options for students, from retirement homes to off-campus apartments. Others are bunking in lounges converted into sleeping spaces, Airbnbs or double dorm rooms that now squeeze in a third roommate. The unusual digs can present challenges, but they're attempts by colleges like the University of Minnesota, […]
How did you pick a college: the academics, the cost, the campus? For today's high schoolers, a new metric has entered the chat—how the college will look on TikTok. According to Teen Vogue, high school TikTok influencers are increasingly choosing schools based on how they'll present on social media content. "Part of Morgan McGuire's calculation […]
As concerns about minority enrollment at elite universities like Harvard and MIT grow following the Supreme Court's ban on affirmative action in college admissions, applying early decision to college can be a vehicle to sustain or potentially even increase minority enrollment.
Government investigations are on the rise thanks to a unique fraud-fighting statute, empowering citizens armed with insider information to cry foul—and collect million-dollar settlements.
Fewer students in this fall's class of college freshmen chose to disclose their race or ethnicity in their applications to some top schools, data shows. The pattern, which is nuanced and only affects a sliver of the nation's universities, is among several early indications of the potential impacts of the Supreme Court's decision last year […]
