It looks like more and more high school seniors are hoping to flock to Boston come fall. Northeastern University has broken its freshman application record this year.

Many colleges and universities in the area are getting a record number of student applications this year. Northeastern University set another record this year with 44,189 applications for approximately 2,800 spots. Boston University also had a record with a 5 percent overall increase — and a 19 percent jump in international applications.

College applications are up at local colleges and universities, but more students are having a harder time keeping up with their college loans. There are signs of improvement, however, as WBZ New England Business Editor Anthony Silva learned during this morning’s WBZ Business Breakfast.

From clothing companies like Annie Mulz, Harper Lei and USHAgZ to the environmentally friendly Pure Pest Management, there were a variety of ventures who demoed at last night’s Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo (NEXPO).

Dozens of local colleges and universities are seeing record numbers of freshman applicants this year, including Northeastern University, Boston University, Boston College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and three campuses of the University of Massachusetts.

Apple’s reputation for building a highly protective environment for its apps, fiercely filtering third party applications available for iDevices, has been called into question in a recent report.

“Race, gender, youth and attractiveness are all factors in whose stories are found to be media-worthy,”€ said Sheri L. Parks, an American studies professor at the University of Maryland. In Love’s case, she said, “the vigorous young athlete turns into the imperiled damsel in distress. .?.?. Young, white and attractive women are often positioned this […]

Most people know by now that healthy habits make a happy body. But some lifestyle changes also can help your wallet:

L’Esperance was at the presentation of a new Northeastern University study that examined troopers’ responses to traffic stops between July 2010 and June 2011. The analysis of nearly 50,000 stops showed the vast majority of drivers who were pulled over were white: more than 95 percent of the total number of traffic stops. That’s logical […]

How far have home values dropped in this Central Massachusetts town? The answer sounds like the punch line to a joke, but no one is laughing: They’€™ve eroded so much that you can buy a house for about the cost of a Toyota Camry.

Alexandria Harding wonders how different things might have been. She and her siblings might have had a mother who took care of them. Her grandmother’s home might have been a place to go for special visits. “She would’ve been like the fun grandma.”

In November, according to Newt Gingrich, voters will decide whether “to decisively repudiate an 80 year drift to the left: a drift in our newsrooms; a drift in our colleges and universities; a drift with our judges; and a drift among elected politicians.”