College Admissions
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- Duke University Admits 847 Early Students to the Class of 2030 This article was originally reported in December 2025. The profile of the full Class of 2030, released in November 2026, is covered in the latest update at the end. On December 18, 2025, Duke University announced the first members of its undergraduate Class of 2030: 847 students… Dec 18, 2025
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UVA Admits 1,225 Early Decision Applicants to the Class of 2030
This article was originally reported in December 2025. A latest update with the full Class of 2030 admissions results has been added below. On Friday, December 12, 2025, the University of Virginia sent its first admission offers to the Class of 2030, the students entering in fal… Dec 12, 2025
- Johns Hopkins Admits 553 Students to the Class of 2030 in Early Decision I This article was originally reported in December 2025. Results of the later admission rounds for the Class of 2030 are in the update at the end. On December 12, 2025, Johns Hopkins University admitted the first 553 members of its undergraduate Class of 2030. The students, from 1… Dec 12, 2025
- Penn State Smeal Launches Smeal Direct, Guaranteeing Business Majors for 2026 Applicants This article was originally reported in October 2025. Smeal Direct applies to students entering Penn State from summer and fall 2026 onward. On October 8, 2025, the Smeal College of Business at Penn State announced Smeal Direct, a new direct-admission route for students applying… Oct 8, 2025
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Legacy Admissions After the Affirmative Action Ruling: Which U.S. States and Colleges Have Ended Them
Since the U.S. Supreme Court ended race-conscious admissions in 2023, the debate over fairness in selective college admissions has shifted to another long-standing practice: legacy preferences, the extra consideration some colleges give to the children and relatives of alumni (a… Oct 1, 2025
- UW–Madison Enrolls 8,500 Freshmen From a Record 73,912 Applications in Fall 2025 This article was originally reported in September 2025. The University of Wisconsin–Madison received a record 73,912 freshman applications for fall 2025, up 12% from the year before, and enrolled an incoming freshman class of 8,500, the fourth largest in its history. Total fall … Sep 26, 2025
- Cornell Study: AI-Written College Essays Are Generic and Easy to Spot This article was originally reported in September 2025. Large language models can produce a college application essay in seconds, but the result reads like everyone else's, according to a study from Cornell University announced on September 25, 2025. Comparing 30,000 real applic… Sep 25, 2025
- Brown University’s Open Curriculum: How It Works and What Applicants Should Know Brown University is best known among applicants for its Open Curriculum: there are no general education or distribution requirements, and students build their own course of study around a concentration. Every fall the idea is introduced to new students in the first days on campu… Sep 5, 2025
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UVA’s Year in Wise Program: A Guaranteed Transfer Path for Waitlisted Applicants
Every spring the University of Virginia turns away thousands of qualified applicants or places them on its waitlist. For some of them there is a little-known second route: Year in Wise, a deferred-admission program in which waitlisted applicants spend one year at the University … Jun 12, 2025
- University of Georgia Uses AI to Process Transfer Transcripts Twice as Fast This article was originally reported in May 2025. The University of Georgia (UGA) began using an artificial intelligence tool in spring 2025 to process transcripts from transfer applicants. According to UGA Today, the software uses AI, intelligent character recognition and machi… May 13, 2025
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