Rachel Quaye-Asamoah is heading into her senior year at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York. She is eyeing several top-ranked colleges, and intends to major in economics. She is already ...

College application essays are where you can demonstrate your writing skills and let your unique voice shine. “They’re such an amazing and crucial opportunity to really shape how admissions officers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover international business education. Harvard Business School announced a surprising departure from its single, open-ended ...

Writing a college admissions essay is a little bit like going through a job interview. The prompts sound roughly like this: Tell us about a situation or task you encountered, what you did and what the ...

The Common Application has announced that the 2016-17 personal statement essay prompts will be the same as the 2015-16 prompts. By conducting a review process every other year rather than annually, we ...

Since the Supreme Court’s decision to axe race-conscious college admissions in June, many colleges — including all eight Ivy League schools — have added application essays asking students to reflect ...

We would like to provide our applicants with the essay prompts for this year’s CWRU secondary application. Throughout the week of July 14th, secondary application invitations will be emailed to CWRU ...

Applicants to Yale Law School must provide an academic transcript, an LSAT or GRE score, letters of recommendation and a personal statement. New this cycle, applicants can now also submit an ...

One of the essay prompts on the Common Application is: “Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without ...