Shortly afterwards, Geiger began to notice that essays felt less and less like they had been written by 17- or 18-year-olds.

Zach Yadegari, the 18-year-old co-founder of calorie-tracking app Cal AI, got rejected from 15 top-tier universities.

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An 18-year-old startup founder shared his college admission essay after being rejected from some of the top schools in the country — and many readers were not impressed.

College admissions are broken — and everyone knows it. Working at a number of colleges over my career has taught me the ideal ...

Bryan Kohberger wrote an essay on how to handle a crime scene investigation while studying at DeSales University, two years before the Idaho student murders.

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 ...

Trump has, according to Decker, “engaged in barbarism […] arbitrarily imprisoned [his] opponents, revoked the visas of ...

Zach Yadegari, a prodigious high school entrepreneur with a thriving multi-million dollar app, faced unexpected rejection ...

The highest possible score you can get on the test is 36. Yadegari followed up his post with screenshots of his college admissions essay, where he was asked to discuss an “accomplishment ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by Michael I. Kotlikoff, the president of Cornell University. Also: Fired in a quake zone.