Daily Beast college contributor Zac Bissonnette thinks high school seniors are obsessed with college, calling the college application process “one of the most emotionally wrought contests of their lives," which it might be for huge nerds. The UMass student also believes that college admissions people are sadistically dangling the possibility of ...

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Apparently now, colleges nationawide are now looking at applicants' social-networking profiles, such as Facebook and Myspace, to determine their qualifications for acceptance.  How wack is that! 

500 top colleges were surveyed by a education company, Kaplan, and it was found that 10% of admissions officers used social-networking sites to evalu...

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For all of you who thought the SAT and ACT really blew (or that you really blew it on the exams), good news: the National Association for College Admissions Counseling recently conducted a study which found that the standardized tests are not accurate ways to gauge the success of potential students (phew!). The NACAC discouraged the heavy relian...

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Incapable of conceiving of any reason besides affirmative action for the recently increased body of admitted black students at UCLA, political science professor Tim Groseclose has resigned from the school’s admissions committee. This year the school admitted 230 black students, up from 103 in 2006, and Groseclose caught a whiff of some nefarious...

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All summer, college admissions counselors have been reading admissions essay after admissions essay. There are loads of Mighty Ducks-like underdog stories, Pretty In Pink-like wrong side of the tracks kid makes it happen stories, and Save the Last Dance-like following the dream stories. Amongst the less narrative essays, there are explanations o...

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