A member of the board of admissions examining applications at Princeton University in 1962. School is out and summer is here. Yet future high school seniors and their families are likely already ...

Every year more than a million students use the Common Application, a standardized electronic form accepted by more than 1,000 colleges, to apply to college. And every year since 1976, the Common App, ...

CHICAGO — When she started writing her college essay, Hillary Amofa told the story she thought admissions offices wanted to hear. About being the daughter of immigrants from Ghana and growing up in a ...

College application essays provide students an opportunity to show off their unique personality and feature their background and experiences. "You want to sound as much like yourself—and only yourself ...

Each year, we publish a handful of essays by high school seniors. We’d love to read yours. If we use it, we’ll pay you. By Ron Lieber In 2015, Ron wrote an essay for The New York Times about his ...

(TNS) — Thousands of high school seniors applying to one of the state’s most selective universities are tackling the same admissions essay question: “Why do you want to study your chosen major ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. The college essay has been a common, central part of ...