Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Charles Q. Brown warns against expanding military's role in contentious domestic ...

I am in my early twenties. “Julie” was the girl the next door. We were friends as kids and grew apart around the time high ...

A student bragged on TikTok that he climbed Kilimanjaro, wrote about it in his essay and got into Yale. Another student ...

The winning application does not need to be perfect, but it needs to be coherent. By the time readers reach the end, they should see more than a collection of scores, activities, and polished ...

Ashley Tisdale didn’t stick to the status quo when she exposed her mom group as “toxic” and “mean” in a scathing essay for The Cut. In the viral January 2026 piece, the actress wrote about ditching ...

A graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on leave after giving a student a failing grade for rejecting the notion that someone’s identity can fall outside of the two genders ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images/Marco Iacobucci/Zuma Press/David Paul Morris/Bloomberg ...

In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: sometimes, what you leave out of your essay matters more than what you put in. As Sophie ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from before ChatGPT was released, Cornell University researchers found that AI ...

On a humid evening in May, Patricia Lockwood, who writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid, was scanning the menu at a Mexican restaurant near her home, in Savannah ...

Here are a few points we’re looking for when it comes to these Boston College-specific essay questions. Required Essay: Please discuss how you plan to achieve your short and long term career goals ...