Carlin Flora, a staff writer for the magazine, looks at the college-application essay and attempts to determine whether some topics lead to acceptance letters more often than others. Carlin Flora, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brilliant college essay topic doesn’t just showcase intelligence — it reveals personality, curiosity, humor, resilience, or the ...

(CBS MoneyWatch) If your teenager is a high school senior, now is the time to get started on those college essays. Nearly all the schools that use the Common Application are private, and they include ...

This article appears in College Prep 2019. Teachers know it, guidance counselors know it, even colleges know it: High school students dread writing the personal college essay. The pressure is high, ...

Science topics can feel dull when people face them in essays, but creativity changes that. Students often search for ways to hold a reader’s attention, especially when handling research or complex ...

In lots of subjects across the school (not just English), you will be asked to write a variety of different types of essay. Once you are clear about the type of writing that you have been asked to ...

Nearly half of the college applicants who used the Common Application this year submitted an essay about their “background, identity, interest, or talent.” Only 4% of applicants using the Common App ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. In the most abstract sense, the function of an introductory paragraph is to move the reader from the world of daily life into the ...

When it comes to writing essays, I have seen so many students complain about the boring and uninteresting topics they have been assigned to write. Yes, there are some pretty annoying and aggravating ...