Legacy preferences, which often favor the White and wealthy, often raise admission chances significantly at colleges that deny 80 percent or more of applicants. Some schools, though, are publicly ...

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As of last week, universities face a new legal constraint: the Supreme Court has profoundly restricted the use of race as a factor in admissions ... to college. Like Bard College, schools could ...

“The fact that your parents or grandparents happened to have a sheepskin [diploma] from a particular college on the wall ... half of schools considered legacy status in the admission process ...

To identify the hardest college to get into ... As a result, the schools listed in these states rank as having the most competitive admissions process by default only. 100 Million Americans ...

But more schools are filling out their student bodies through direct admission ... traditional college applications and throws in a scholarship as well. I'm JR Whalen from the Wall Street Journal ...

24/7 Wall St. identified the hardest colleges and universities to get into in each state. The schools on this list were identified using a two-part index composed of the admissions rate – the ...