The instructor who gave Samantha Fulnecky a zero on her essay is appealing OU's decision to remove her from teaching.

The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

Students applying to college know they can’t — or at least shouldn’t — use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Colleges are waiving application fees, creating one-click apps, and offering automatic admission to students who ...

I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. Learning to write clearly is one of the more difficult skills a person will learn through school and ...

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 ...

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