As Sophie Smith, co-founder of College Contact, explained in a recent TikTok video, “If you were sitting in a job interview and you wouldn’t tell that story out loud, you shouldn’t be writing it in ...

Colleges should have specific policies on, and clearly stated rules about, how the admissions essay should be completed (“Duke Asks Applicants if They Got Help on Essays, and Most Say They Did,” March ...

College application essays are where you can demonstrate your writing skills and let your unique voice shine. “They’re such an amazing and crucial opportunity to really shape how admissions officers ...

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

Elon Musk has done it again: he’s in the news. At times, his clickable comments are bombastic and jarring simply for the sake of turning heads. But his and other experts’ call for a pause on all AI ...

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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 ...

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Gen Z has practically turned vulnerability into an art form. Whether it’s a “get ready with me” video that turns into a ...

High-school students who are applying to Penn this admissions cycle have been asked to describe themselves in just 500 words. Last spring, the Common Application — the organization that provides the ...

Today the Ivy League gossip blog IvyGate unveiled a public Google Drive folder in which members of Columbia University's Class of 2017 had saved the personal essay each had included with their ...

University of Michigan is one of the latest schools to add an early decision option to its application, after previously ...