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• Colleges lavishing more financial aid on wealthy students
• 10 Colleges That Receive the Most Applications
• Explore the 10 Top Public National Universities
• College Students, Graduates Weigh in on Their College Choices

Colleges lavishing more financial aid on wealthy students Posted: 27 Sep 2016 11:22 AM PDT Spencer Mulligan knew his family could pay for his college education, even without loans or grants. So when the University of Connecticut offered a merit award of $20,000 over four years, he saw it as ...

10 Colleges That Receive the Most Applications Posted: 27 Sep 2016 06:00 AM PDT The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Of the 1,254 ranked schools that submitted these data to U.S. News in an annual survey, the eight that received the highest number of applications for fall 2015 were public universities located in the Golden State. Boston University was once again among the 10 schools that received the most applications, and New York University is the only school that's new to the list, replacing the University of Southern California, which received 51,924 applications.

Explore the 10 Top Public National Universities Posted: 27 Sep 2016 05:30 AM PDT See the Top Public Schools

College Students, Graduates Weigh in on Their College Choices Posted: 27 Sep 2016 05:00 AM PDT As a college freshman, I joined a lab and have continued working year-round thanks to the support of Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Caltech's SanPietro Travel Prize allowed me to spend three weeks traveling through Greece to experience a foreign country -- just because! My love of literature, combined with the encouragement of wonderful English professors, has led me to pursue an English minor along with my bachelor's in chemistry.

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