Marilee Jones, a prominent crusader against the pressure on students to build their resumes for elite colleges, resigned Thursday as dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

For weeks Marilee Jones has rehearsed the words. The night she stands before an audience once again, she will share some advice on applying to college. She will describe how growth comes from failure.

I stumbled across an MIT application form from 50 years ago. You might be surprised by what has—and hasn’t—changed. Until last fall, for as long as there had been an admissions office at MIT (nearly a ...

Most applicants apply at the start of their final year of high school. Getting into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is widely considered one of the toughest academic challenges in the ...