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Collegewise is reaching higher one year after being acquired by Singapore-based A-Star Education Holdings, formerly ChangedEDU Holdings, for an undisclosed sum. The Irvine-based company, which calls ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Kathy Cabrera Guaman not only survived the nail-biting process of applying to college; she got into three. But the celebrations were short-lived. Now she was sitting somberly and ...

High schoolers are turning to chatbots for help navigating the college admissions process. Does a virtual college coach know ...

Sara Harberson is a college admissions expert with over 20 years of experience in higher education and private counseling. She tells PEOPLE her best advice for students as college decision season roll ...

Kayla Missman specializes in making complicated topics more approachable. She has eight years of experience in journalism, editing and marketing, allowing her to dive into interesting topics and ...

Everything is soooo different now than when we went to college in the ‘90s and ‘00s. From the Common App (yay!) to terrifyingly tiny acceptance rates (boo!), so much about the application process has ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The U.S. Justice Department's college admissions investigation is casting a dark shadow over the independent college counseling industry. One popular Brentwood counselor said he ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Our society's focus on "brand name" colleges has contributed to the intense competition for college admission. Legitimate coaches and counselors work with students to give them a leg ...

The National Association for College Admission Counseling is discontinuing its Online College Fair program, which used Internet chat rooms to link prospective students to college administrators. The ...