In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: What you leave ...

Harvard will forbid alumni interviewers from including any information about an applicant’s race, ethnicity, or national ...

Changes made to the University’s supplemental essay prompts during this time came in the midst of the Supreme Court’s 2023 ...

Removing essays entirely, rather than just reverting to their previous tradition of using expressive, personable prompts, ...

In a vacuum, the choice to add an “LGBTQ-friendly” essay was commendable, especially after the Common App rejected the notion ...

Oversharing on TikTok? Fine. Oversharing in your college essay? Not so much. One admissions expert says authenticity has its limits — and we couldn’t agree more.

As Sophie Smith, co-founder of College Contact, explained in a recent TikTok video, “If you were sitting in a job interview ...

But funding was an obstacle, so with help from UD’s new Office of National Fellowships (ONF), she applied for the prestigious ...

Watching my friends’ grandchildren wrestle with the college application process, I am reminded of my own saga of applying to — and being rejected by — Brown University. It turns out the school ...

Every fall, high school students applying to college face an intimidating task: They must write a stylish, memorable essay that will boost their admissions chances. So who can blame them when they ...

As fall settles in, high school seniors across the U.S. are facing a season filled with college application deadlines. A UNC and The Daily Tar Heel alumna, Ashley Ausman (‘01), has built a career on ...

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. - Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to college ...