Labeling a college applicant “first generation” has long been a way to identify students who may need extra support navigating college life. But new research from Common App suggests that binary first ...

Gen Z, this will smart. The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist. And ...

First-generation students—those whose parents did not complete a college degree—make up more than half of undergraduates nationwide. Yet not much is known about the support networks they draw on as ...