The early decision process at US universities has long been criticized as a pernicious system that benefits wealthy families ...

A federal class-action lawsuit accuses 32 elite colleges and universities of conspiring to inflate tuition costs through the ...

The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts against 32 schools across the U.S. claims early admissions drive up education costs and ...

The University of Chicago and Northwestern University are both named in a lawsuit accusing top U.S. colleges of using the ...

Columbia University, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and 29 other elite U.S. colleges and universities were ...

Cornell University is facing a lawsuit over its early-decision policies along with more than two dozen universities. A new ...

The lawsuit, brought by four plaintiffs, argues that Early Decision commitments do not allow students to compare financial ...

The lawsuit seeks class action status, an injunction to end the use of binding early decision, unspecified past damages for ...

The lawsuit argues that the early decision admission process disadvantages students because colleges are not given an ...

On Friday, a group of three students and a recent graduate filed a class action lawsuit against 32 colleges and universities, ...

Early decision has grown more popular as the rejection rates for highly selective colleges have continued to climb. For the past three admission cycles, ED applications have grown for about half ...

American University, in Washington D.C., for example, reported an early decision acceptance rate of 82% and a regular acceptance rate of 29%.