On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She ...

To write a good university essay you have to make your message clear. This means organizing your key points, supporting them with a series of evidence-based arguments, and wrapping it all up at the ...

Carter Osborne started a side hustle tutoring students on their college admissions essays in 2017. The Stanford graduate shared his recommendations for students looking to ace their personal essays.

My 11-year-old son recently reported with horror that the word "funner" has been added to the dictionary. "What's wrong with that?" I asked. He gaped. "IT'S NOT A WORD." "Sure it is," I said. "Little ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from ...