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

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to ...

A candid look into a growing concern among educators and psychologists: the phenomenon of cognitive laziness, where ...

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

In the high-stakes world of college admissions, your application essay is your superpower. While grades and test scores show your accomplishments, your essay is the one place you can speak directly to ...

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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

As Villanova enters midterm season, the question about which form of assessment is better, standard exams or essays and ...

In Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, director Raoul Peck explores the legacy of the dystopian novelist with all the depth of a term paper.