Even if you’ve already made a few academic missteps, identifying them is the first step to turning things around.

Marisa Shuman’s computer science class at the Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx began as usual on a recent January morning. Just after 11:30, energetic 11th and 12th graders bounded ...

In this class, you will understand how reasoning skills will be instrumental in studying and taking the Medical College Admission Test. This class also gives you the opportunity to justify reasoning ...

But getting into science is different. The same study found that only 15% of scientists come from working-class households, which comprise 35% of the general population (see 'Elite careers').

Lured by the prospect of high-salary, high-status jobs, college students are rushing in record numbers to study computer science. Now, if only they could get a seat in class.

But only 37 percent of students said they enjoy their science class, and even fewer—33 percent—liked biology class. That’s less than the 48 percent who said they enjoyed non-science classes.