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 ...

What is a college application? At its core, a college application is an attempt to convince a stranger (or group of strangers) that the applicant is a desirable classmate, roommate, campus-mate and ...

This video is no longer available. A well-written essay and $200 could win you a nearly 6,000-square-foot house in historic downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia. Paula and Robert Welsh said they love ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

Students typically fill out the “Common App,” which is accepted by more than 1,000 colleges and universities. Most of the questions are straightforward, with the exception of the Activities section ...

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Artificial intelligence chatbots may be able to write a quick essay, but a new study from MIT found that their use comes at a cognitive cost. A study published by the Massachusetts Institute of ...

A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...

Evergreen eighth-grade student Braelynn Peltier shares her We Want to Play, Too speech. (Courtesy photo) Evergreen eighth-grade student Bentley Bauer shares his Germs Be-Gone speech. (Courtesy photo) ...

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High school students who use artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to write college application or scholarship essays may not have the best chance at being selected, experts say, because the ...