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.

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 ...

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

We’re going to start by confessing that we lied to you via the title to this article: We can’t give you the magic formula for writing a perfect college application essay because there isn’t one. The ...

When scored through A.I., Harvard essays beat Yale essays 98 percent to 98 percent. As many as two million college applicants nationwide will spend the winter polishing that most important and feared ...