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

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

Deadlines are coming up! Polish your dream-college applications, hit send, and hope the admissions game isn’t rigged with “race proxies”! To ...

When Tatiana Schlossberg submitted an essay to The New Yorker, it had not been assigned or even expected. It was accepted ...

The controversy stems from a University of Oklahoma student who cited her religious beliefs in an essay on gender roles in ...

A University of Oklahoma student received a zero on a psychology essay after using her religious beliefs to discuss gender norms. The graduate student instructor said the grade was for not properly ...

The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment. By Mark Arsenault A ...

The instructor who gave Samantha Fulnecky a zero on her essay is appealing OU's decision to remove her from teaching.

For students applying as transfers this cycle, January is the time to craft thoughtful application materials. Here’s what ...

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 ...

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that ...

The 2025 College Football Playoff bracket is officially out. Let the debates rage on. The big controversy this year was Notre Dame getting left out of the 12-team bracket despite being ranked ahead of ...