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The University of Central Florida ran out of merit scholarship money after Early Action last cycle and told counselors to expect the same this year. The University of Florida has stopped sharing admission decisions with high school counselors. Florida Atlantic University will let some applicants skip the self-reported transcript entirely, but only if their public high school ...

The average Common App applicant submitted 7.06 applications in the 2025-26 cycle, up 4% from the year before and up 49% since 2016-17, according to Common App's end-of-season report. Applications hit 10.8 million while the num...

On August 13, 2026, MIT published something no elite university had been willing to say in writing: AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments. That admission anchors the final report of MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training...

On August 2, 2026, Anthropic began embedding an invisible watermark in text generated by its newest Claude models. Models released on or after that date carry it automatically, and Anthropic says older models are being updated over time. The company explained the technol...