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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. I've spent much of my life thinking about how to help people reach their ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from before ChatGPT was released, Cornell University researchers found that AI ...

I've been a teacher for 20 years, and I first thought AI would be a great tool in the classroom. But my students now rely on ChatGPT to write their essays and answer any questions they have. I ...

On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Kaitlin Mars-Liebman, a high school science teacher on Long Island. As we celebrate Earth Day this week, I am deeply concerned about several recent federal ...

Johns Hopkins University is seeking community input on its draft Learning Environment Guidelines, which outline a consistent approach to the design, renovation, and construction of classrooms and ...

Objective: To understand the current situation and progress of clinical learning environment measurement tools for nursing students, this paper reviews the relevant research on clinical learning ...

SYDNEY — Artificial intelligence has made headlines for writing essays, generating art, and even passing medical exams. However, most AI systems today still require extensive human guidance to ...