After rejections from 15 top colleges, 18-year-old Cal AI CEO Zach Yadegari reignites debate on college admissions, merit, ...

Packback, for example, is an online platform whose ... discouraged students from using a thesaurus in writing college application essays, or using any words that aren’t normal for them.

Many students write about empathy, compassion and resilience. Amy Addams, director of student affairs alignment and holistic ...

Ahana Gadiyaram reports on the stress college admissions are causing high school students at at Horace Mann in the Bronx.

EDWARDSVILLE — Madison County Community Development is offering scholarships to local students planning to attend college in ...

Harvard professor Roland Fryer says algorithms could solve the problem of deciding who to admit to universities "far better ...

New York City Uncommon Schools had the most QuestBridge Match Scholarship recipients in its history, with 17 students earning ...

I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

In 2025, college admissions feel like a high-wire act over ... slashing that pricing shock. Technology is upending admissions. AI can spit out essays, but admissions officers crave authenticity-a ...

“My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year,” the response from GPT-3 read a bit like a college-application essay ...