Following the footsteps of its Ivy League peers, including Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, Harvard University announced that it is reinstating its standardized testing requirement in admissions beginning ...

Harvard’s early admission applications have slid to a four-year low as the elite university continues to face backlash for its administration’s unwillingness to condemn antisemitism on campus — while ...

A complaint was issued citing possible violations of the Civil Rights Act. Harvard University's practice of legacy admissions is being probed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil ...

Many of the top universities in the country use this preference in admissions. Harvard University's legacy admissions policy has come under scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for ...

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FILE - Students walk through Harvard Yard, April 27, 2022, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. On Monday, July 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation ...

The Department of Education is opening up an investigation into Harvard University’s legacy admission practices after a civil rights group filed a federal complaint with the department’s Office of ...

Boston University, the University of Chicago, Harvard and Princeton are all seeing changes to humanities programs at the graduate level.

*Harvard University’s newly released admissions data highlights major demographic changes for the Class of 2029. These students entered in fall 2025 and are expected to graduate in 2029. Black student ...

The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Harvard University's policies on legacy admissions, according to a group that alleges the practice is discriminatory. The department ...