Over 300 students have filed requests to view their admission files under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act since Jan. 15, according to Senior Associate ...

“I really just can’t imagine a scenario where I recommend a student read their file," Director of One-Stop College Counseling Laurie Kopp Weingarten said. Credit: Weiwei Meng An email from Penn’s ...

When Class of 2022 alumna Rachel Lee first opened her Harvard University acceptance letter in December 2021 through an online portal, she was greeted by the word, “Congratulations!” in bold text.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Registrar’s Office has dedicated a single person to respond to substantial demand from students requesting to view their admissions files—an increase from a “handful” ...

When Daniel Svediani ’29 emailed the Office of the Registrar last month to access evaluative comments on his admissions file, he was told that the University no longer had the comments. Svediani is ...

Hackers emailed applicants of three private colleges after breaching the systems that store applicant information. Applicants to Oberlin College (Ohio), Grinnell College (Iowa) and Hamilton College (N ...

Last week, a widely publicized discovery by a group of Stanford students turned Penn's college admissions office upside-down. When a group of Stanford students publicized a method of obtaining one's ...

Though the University admissions office keeps records of students' applications, students are not allowed to look at them. This was not always the case. According to a statement released in 2015, the ...

After several hundred students requested access to their educational files, the Undergraduate Admissions Office decided to delete its evaluative admissions data for ...