And an elite college degree can pay dividends down the road, with a recent study from Harvard economists finding that grads of Ivy League and equivalent schools are 60% more likely to have incomes ...

Georgetown University is on the list of so-called New Ivies. “Those schools are being added to college lists and are being considered in a very similar light to the Ivy League,” college ...

1. Rigorous coursework in a student’s field of interest. Top colleges are not just interested in stellar grades; they want to see that a student has taken the most challenging coursework ...

Ivy League universities spend an average of $126,000 per full-time equivalent student, compared to just $35,000 for the average private college. These high levels of spending fuel a vast ...

All the Ivy League schools I applied to rejected me. My biggest mistake was not fully understanding Ivy League admissions. Now, as a college freshman at a different school, I understand that the ...