On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She ...

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 ...

"There's no way AI can do that for you," says Livingston, now a college counselor with Empowerly. "It has to be an intrinsic ...

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Anne Kim, senior editor at Washington Monthly, joins the show to explore the rise of video admissions essays and the growing ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from ...

Good polls don’t just ask questions. They frame the debate. A strong poll highlights what’s at stake in a topic, makes ...

Have you ever tried fishing without bait? Yeah, it doesn't work out so well. (The fish aren't convinced, and now your feet are probably wet.) The same goes for content without a solid hook (minus the ...

Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both ...

What happened should be taken as a wake-up call, rather than a crime scene. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been the The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 and ...