We recently posted the 2022-2023 admissions essays for the University of Pennsylvania’s Class of 2027. In a change of pace from the last few years, this year, UPenn’s admissions office has asked to respond to three essay prompts. For each prompt, applicants are asked to write between 150-200 words. And …
As many elite universities report record number of applications this year, some top private high schools are also announcing new application benchmarks. This is the case at Harvard-Westlake School, an elite independent preparatory day school in Los Angeles that has long served as a feeder school to America’s elite universities. …
Last month, a federal class action lawsuit was filed against 16 universities — Brown University, California Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Emory University, Georgetown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, Vanderbilt …