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Colleges scrutinize applications from troubled students more closely.
Parents try to get their kids off the wait lists while legislators aim for more money.
Paying for College (USN&WR)
Colleges give money to well-off students while the needy get 'gapped.'
Experts offer five tips for escaping from college admissions limbo.
At many schools, white students graduate at notably higher rates.
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In a series of new videos, students and faculty give us an up close and personal tour of their campuses.
More students are studying Arabic and Chinese, while little demand means goodbye to Italian, French literature, and Latin literature AP exams.
This book excerpt follows two recruits through their first year at a rough Los Angeles high school.
Rushing to class at Princeton University. (Jeffrey MacMillan for USN&WR)
Find the top schools in business, law, medicine, and engineering, plus tips for getting in and how to pay.
Students in an Andean village in Peru have been using the "green machines" from the One Laptop Per Child project for more than six months. (Martin Mejia/AP)
The program that distributes affordable laptops to kids in developing nations works closer to home.
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Campus News: More than 100 students have been displaced from their dorms.
Studio portrait of Robert Morse of USN&WR. (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)
Rankings News: A spokesperson for the program sets the record straight.
Pomona College students eat in the Frary Dining Hall. In the background is a fresco of Prometheus, painted by Mexican muralist Orozco in 1930. (William Mercer McLeod)
The avatars of San Jose State University School of Librarian Science mingle in the Second Life classroom of Professor Lili Luo. Her class is on "Advanced Reference". (Bernd Becker)
From Wikis to avatars, e-learning is fast adapting to ever-changing technology trends.
Changing classes is a balancing act for Rae Taylor-Burns at Boston Latin High School. (Jeffrey MacMillan for USN&WR)
How historically black schools are competing for the best and brightest.
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