As if the college application process wasn't hard enough, Vassar College had to go and punk 76 kids into thinking they got into the popular liberal arts college when they most certainly had not. So as a token of its regret the school is now...refunding the screwed students their $65 application fees. On the one hand the school admits that payday will be "of very little consolation" but on the other hand? These kids have college-application-from-hell stories to tell for the rest of their lives! more ›

Private schools have long offered admissions to the young siblings of students—but the NY Times reports that's no longer the case at some schools, for reasons including increasing diversity and making more money. To illustrate the story, the Times offers a glimpse at one elite private school's insane kindergarten admissions process: more ›

The office of undergraduate admissions at NYU sent out a strange sort of e-mail to prospective students this week suggesting that recipients of the message would probably gain entrance to the university. Vice president of enrollment management Randall Dieke tells NYU News that the e-mail was not so much a notice of admission as it was a heads-up for high school students to start making travel arrangements to visit the expanding NYU empire. Dieke says students should expect more straightforward notifications towards the end of the month. Surely, this sort of correspondence won't curb any nail-biting over the admissions process, congratulations are still in order: you may or may not be accepted to NYU! more ›

They may have grown up privileged and prepped for success from birth, but a record number of four-year-olds are facing rejection from New York's top kindergarten programs. Fortunately, the parents of the doomed children are probably still young enough to procreate again and hope for better chances with their younger progeny. more ›