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 ...

In a move that could make admissions officers across the country nervous, a group of anonymous Stanford University students who send out an irregular email called “The Fountain Hopper” are encouraging ...

“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 ...

About 50 students and alums took advantage of their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 by sending requests for personal records to the ...

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 ...

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” ...

Some applicants at Grinnell, Hamilton and Oberlin report receiving emails giving them the chance to purchase their files -- including confidential comments from admissions officers. Some applicants at ...

The evening of Jan. 15 started like any other for Stanford’s 7,000 undergraduates. That quickly changed when a mass email sent shockwaves through the student community, disrupting late-night studying ...

The man went over the mountain to see what he could see. The other side of the mountain was all that he could see. Don’t request your admissions files. Don’t ask to see them here at Cal — or at ...

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 ...