LAND O' LAKES - Four Pasco County high schools plan to raise the academic bar for high-performing students by replacing some honors classes with more challenging Advanced Placement courses in 2009-10. ...more

February 12, 2009

Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam. The quest for money that begins for students and parents every January has taken on new urgency in 2009 amid fears that loans and grants will be scarcer than in the past due to the recession. ...more

January 25, 2009

Some of the most influential college admissions officials have moved to break the decades-long stranglehold the College Board has had on the process, saying for the first time that institutions of higher education should move away from their reliance on SAT and ACT test scores in admitting students. ...more

September 25, 2008

Florida's public universities raised admission standards higher than ever last year, and area high school guidance counselors learned Friday that the bar for entry will go even higher. ...more

September 6, 2008

Harvard University is the country's oldest, wealthiest and most selective university. Now it's back on top of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, claiming sole possession of the No. 1 spot for the first time in 12 years. ...more

August 22, 2008

Students transferring from other colleges into the University of South Florida have long enjoyed an open door. From now on, they will have a harder time gaining entry. ...more

February 15, 2008

The conventional wisdom has it that so-called helicopter parents are annoying their children by hovering over their every move as they apply to college. It turns out, though, that most freshmen are happy with how involved mom and dad were during their college search. ...more

January 24, 2008

The budget pain afflicting Florida's public universities is just starting. ...more

January 22, 2008

The admissions director at the University of South Florida operates under a distinctive holiday creed: If you are college-bound and you smell the Thanksgiving turkey, your college application ought to be finished. ...more

November 26, 2007

The admissions director at the University of South Florida operates under a distinctive holiday creed: If you are college-bound and you smell the Thanksgiving turkey, your college application ought to be finished. ...more

November 25, 2007