BOSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Massachusetts filed a friend-of-court brief supporting Harvard University’s right to consider race as one of many factors in a whole-person ...

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The return of standardized testing requirements drove down the size of Harvard’s application pool this year — but it’s not ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include comment by Harvard University. After threatening nearly $3 billion in federal funding cuts at Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Justice ...

*Harvard University’s newly released admissions data highlights major demographic changes for the Class of 2029. These students entered in fall 2025 and are expected to graduate in 2029. Black student ...

Admitted international students will be allowed to accept admission at Harvard University and at a foreign institution as a “backup plan,” according to an internal Harvard email obtained by MassLive.

Harvard emerged mostly unscathed from its first application cycle since the fall of affirmative action, silencing critics who speculated the University’s recent controversies would deter students from ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University announced Thursday that it is reinstituting standardized tests as a requirement for admission beginning with the class of 2029, joining other colleges that are ...

In August, the University of Chicago announced it was pausing admissions to most of its arts and humanities Ph.D. programs. Chicago’s decision prompted The Atlantic’s Tyler Au ...

For the freshman class of 2012, Harvard University will no longer offer the option of early action, which Harvard officials say tends to favor affluent applicants. Although the new policy will go into ...