Applying to college can be a daunting experience, but being mindful of common mistakes can help make the process smoother.

Georgetown announced Thursday that the university is launching a three-year pilot program that will allow students to apply ...

California banned affirmative action decades ago. The Trump administration says it plans to investigate whether schools there ...

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Will Geiger estimates that he read about 10,000 college application essays over the course of a years-long career in college ...

This was never more so than when he became an expert witness for the conservative advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions, which sued Harvard ... much was made of the so-called personal essay ...

Lindsay Tanne’s essay on her Harvard application was about ... who apply their collective knowledge and offer feedback. A former MIT admissions officer could offer suggestions on an MIT ...

A new MIT and NVIDIA framework allows robots to be corrected through simple interactions. The strategy does not need users to gather new data or retrain the machine-learning model that drives the ...

The Princeton Review said 73 percent of students and parents reported "high" or "very high" stress over the admissions process ... of Technology was the No. 1 "dream college" for students. MIT pushed ...

If readers know you can laugh at yourself, they will have more patience when you brag about yourself. Note that your other application essays may have a different tone than your personal statement.

At Bucknell, we can assure you that a real human being (at least two, actually) will review your entire application, including your essay, and that they (not computers) will decide if you get in.

Although he’d already started four ventures, Remington Hotchkis figured the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could teach him something new about launching a company. “I knew that they ...