On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She had already read 60 that week. “I could tell within the first five lines ...

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.

In a guest column, Eric Greenberg, founder and president of Greenberg Educational Group, gives high school students advice on crafting a successful college application essay. His New York-based ...

While this essay is for an academic purpose, it does not call for a strictly academic style/voice. This is also not the space to outline your resume or explore all of your achievements. This essay is ...

I had lunch recently with two rising 12th-graders at the Potomac School http://www.potomacschool.org/ in McLean. They are very bright students. They told me they had ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. At certain moments of the year, high school students who are applying to ...

We’ve all heard about the dreaded “college essay,” the bane of every high school senior’s existence. This daunting element of the college application is something that can create angst for even the ...

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. - Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to college ...

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College application season will swiftly be upon graduating high school seniors, and with the advent of generative AI looming over pretty much everything, there’s no doubt that some of those soon-to-be ...

Hey, ChatGPT, can you help me write my college admissions essays? Absolutely! Please provide me with the essay prompts and any relevant information about yourself, your experiences, and your goals.

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from ...