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 ...

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 ...

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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Here are a few points we’re looking for when it comes to these Boston College-specific essay questions. Required Essay: Please discuss how you plan to achieve your short and long term career goals ...

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 ...

Inductive reasoning is a critical skill that enables individuals to make sound decisions by drawing general conclusions from specific observations. Whether you’re working on a high-stakes business ...

At the initiative of the Hungarian presidency, today the Council approved conclusions on the Commission’s White Paper titled ‘How to master EU’s digital infrastructure needs’. Extensive ...

Writing a sociology essay requires discussing social themes such as culture and identity, analysing the dynamics through a specific lens or theory, and putting up arguments with good support.

School is out and summer is here. Yet future high school seniors and their families are likely already thinking about applying to college — a process that can be as labor-intensive and time-consuming ...

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