“I would have loved to have gone to Columbia out of high school,” Jonathan Mo said last October, speaking on his cell phone between classes. A 20-year-old college senior who interned at Google last ...

“This is not trimming fat from around the edges, it’s cutting to the bone,” said Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, last week. Pallone's language ...

Transfer pools are often more competitive, because they include students with real life experience—service in the military, gap years, time off to work—candidates “universities really value and want ...