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Using funds from its endowment to expand financial aid, Boston University notches sizable increase in proportion of its freshmen who come from low-income backgrounds.

But gaps remain, based on levels of preparedness and by race and ethnicity.

Amid concerns about visas and the political environment, some institutions are maintaining or even increasing their enrollment numbers, but many report drops, some by as much as 30 to 50 percent for new students.

A private school noticed one of its students -- who never asked for materials to be sent to Rochester -- posted on social media that she was enrolling there. And then her scheme fell apart.

Making the top 50 has an impact on applications, study finds, even if there is no quantifiable difference in quality between those just over and under that threshold. And that impact may hurt some students.

SUNY Fredonia had been suffering year after year of declines. And while the state's new scholarship may be helping, officials attribute major gains to new policies and new strategies.

Saturday was the first August administration of the SAT, but testing centers were closed in much of Texas.