鈥淚nnovative and invaluable鈥se this book as your college lifeline.鈥
— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
July 23, 2026
In the fall of 2021, Miami received 1,511 Early Decision applications and admitted 978 of them. Four cycles later it received 2,395 and admitted 1,062. The pool grew by...
What does it mean when a university’s acceptance rate goes up for three years running? At Villanova, it means the admissions office is working harder to fill a class...
For the class that entered in Fall 2024, USC did something it had never done before: it opened an early action round. Applications were due November 1, decisions went...
The standard explanation for a falling acceptance rate is a flood of new applications. More students apply, the class stays the same size, the percentage drops. At Vanderbilt, that...
At nearly every public flagship in the country, the out-of-state applicant faces the longer odds. At UC San Diego, the reverse is true. For the Fall 2025 entering class,...
July 22, 2026
Picture a high school senior with a 1580 SAT, a stack of fives on her AP exams, and her heart set on studying computer science at Berkeley. At almost...
The University of Texas at Austin reports an overall acceptance rate that has slid from about 32 percent to 27 percent over five years. For most applicants, that number...
How hard is it to get into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill? The answer depends almost entirely on one fact an applicant cannot change: which state...
For the Fall 2021 entering class, 40,878 students applied to the University of Virginia. For Fall 2025, that number reached 64,457. One cycle later, for the Class of 2030,...
Princeton enrolled 5,321 undergraduates in the fall of 2021 and 5,916 in the fall of 2025. That gain of nearly 600 students is close to the population of a...
July 21, 2026
In July 2025 the federal government suspended roughly 800 research grants at UCLA, about $584 million in awards, and followed with a proposed settlement that reached $1.2 billion. A...
July 20, 2026
Sociology is the scientific study of human society: how social structures form and change, how institutions shape behavior, how inequality is produced and reproduced, and how collective action transforms...
Industrial engineering is the discipline of optimization, the systematic design, analysis, and improvement of integrated systems of people, machines, materials, information, and energy. Where other engineering disciplines focus primarily...
History is one of the oldest and most versatile academic disciplines, the systematic study of human experience across time, from the ancient world to the present day. At its...
July 15, 2026
Geology, the study of Earth鈥檚 composition, structure, processes, and history, is one of the most consequential applied sciences in human civilization. Geologists and earth scientists map the resources that...
English is the foundational humanities discipline, the study of language, literature, and the craft of writing across history and cultures. At its best, an English degree trains students in...
Every year, thousands of high school seniors face one of the most consequential decisions of their early careers: where to study architecture. Unlike most undergraduate majors, the Bachelor of...
Astronomy and astrophysics is one of the oldest scientific disciplines and one of the most intellectually ambitious, the systematic investigation of the structure, evolution, and fate of the universe,...
Mathematics is the language of science and the foundation of quantitative reasoning across nearly every academic discipline. It is also one of the most versatile undergraduate majors available, producing...
July 14, 2026
Chemical engineering is one of the most technically demanding and economically rewarding undergraduate disciplines in American higher education. It applies the principles of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biology to...
