Ever wondered what the college admissions office thought about you and your application? Well, there might be a way for you find out. Students at Stanford have requested access to their college admissions files under Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The act forces schools to allow students access to their own records, which include the admissions process files, according to a Buzzfeed article. The Fountain Hopper, an anonymous website at Stanford, encouraged students to send in requests and approximates that 700 students have sent in requests.

Philadelphia will face a range of pressing issues in 2015, and a new mayor will be at the forefront of it all. 

From fashion to prison, the Daily Pennsylvanian took a look at alumni changing the world for better and for worse.

Nick Moncy is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu

For some, winter break is spent with home friends, catching up on their stressful first semester.

Princeton decided not to use a sexual assault survey designed by the Association of American Universities to comply with Title IX and will instead design one of its own. The survey will be administered later this semester and will be designed similarly to a survey done by Rutgers, according to the Daily Princetonian report. Princeton decided to go with an independent survey in large part because of the customization and timeline it provided, as Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter explained to the Daily Princetonian. “An independent survey meant we would be able to go ahead with that planning quite quickly.

Thousands of students from around the globe will meet on January 16 for a weekend long coding marathon to work towards solving real-world problems. 

Corpses, picture books and the meaning of life are on some students' agendas this semester. The Daily Pennsylvanian looked at ten classes hiding in the pages of Penn InTouch.

A female student from Temple University died Thursday night after falling from a Center City building while taking photographs, ABC Philadelphia reported. ABC's report says that the fall happened around 6:00 p.m.

Penn President Amy Gutmann responded to her participation in a protest that sparked national headlines.

With a trip to Sunshine State for anything but a vacation in the rear view for Penn swimming, will the training be worth it?

It isn’t every night that Penn basketball gets to play in front of a sold-out crowd, but Saturday’s game against No. 5 Villanova isn’t an ordinary night.

In the first meeting between the two teams since 1995, the Quakers defeated Richmond for the first time in school history, 49-47, off the strength on a late three from freshman Anna Ross.

I spent three weeks in bed, unsure of what to do with myself. I was used to my Penn state of bouncing from one activity to the next with barely any time in between to eat, let alone reflect on my life.

President Helen Giles-Gee announced she was stepping down from her post at the helm of the private university located just southwest of Penn’s campus.

Of the legion of Penn benefactors and gift givers, no two may be more infamous than David and Charles Koch. The famous industrialist siblings contributed more than $12.7 million to 163 colleges and universities in 2012.