You’ve finally embarked on your journey toward college, and now it’s time to tackle the admissions essay. It’s important to leave a lasting impression and set yourself apart from the competition, but ...

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Every fall, high school students applying to college face an intimidating task: They must write a stylish, memorable essay that will boost their admissions chances. So who can blame them when they ...

Olivier Knox is the son of college professors and worked in admissions as a student at his dream school. He has a 100% ...

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For years, applicants looking to read examples of admissions essays submitted to top business schools could buy books with such names as "101 Business School (MBA) Essays That Made a Difference" or ...

Did your dream college reject or defer your carefully crafted early action or early decision application? This is the bad news – but the good news is that, although rejection hurts, you may have a ...

Sixteen-year-old Erin Tan of North Brunswick, a rising senior at the Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (MCVTS) in Edison, likes the changes in admission ...

North Carolina State University in Raleigh is the largest college in the Carolinas. It received nearly 40,000 first-year applications for its Class of 2027. Juli Leonard [email protected] ...