Data from the Social Security administration shows that attaining a college degree still increases one’s median lifetime earnings. College may not be the answer for every person coming out of high ...

C.K. asks: My daughter’s English teacher kindly shared her letter of recommendation with her ahead of sending it to the ...

Understanding the experiences and needs of first-generation college students can be a challenge for college and institutional leaders, in part because there is no common definition of a ...

CARSON, CA - DECEMBER 17: Felicia Johnson, 32, a second year social work student walks to the bus stop after returning some books at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Dominguez Hills has had a 17% drop in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. The Common Application, a centralized platform over 1,000 ...

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Ohio remains among the top 10 U.S. states with the highest-volume of college applicants — and the state continues to see ...

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder Audio By Carbonatix The Common App facilitates applying to colleges and universities. That sounds good, but is it? In today’s Martin ...

Applying for college can be one of the most stressful parts of a high schooler’s life. It entails hours of document wrangling, rewriting the same personal essay over and over and prepping for ...

The Common Application, an online platform a million students use to apply to college, has acquired “Reach Higher,” the college-encouragement campaign that Michelle Obama launched when she was the ...