Practical tips for students who feel stuck at the start of an essay. Learn how to generate ideas, reduce pressure, and build ...

If advisory boards don't have the power to address issues like the OU essay controversy, why are they even necessary?

An Oklahoma university has removed a graduate teaching assistant from classroom duties following a high-profile dispute over how an undergraduate essay on gende ...

The winners were chosen from High School Seniors of public and private schools in Lavaca, De-Witt, and Gonzales counties.

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

No application fee, no essay, no recommendation letters and guaranteed admission. It almost sounds too good to be true, but ...

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 ...

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A brilliant college essay topic doesn’t just showcase intelligence — it reveals personality, curiosity, humor, resilience, or the wonderfully weird way someone sees the world. Over the years, certain ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

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