Tony Vitello was a fish out of water at his first ever Winter Meetings. "I don't know what I'm doing at this thing, to be honest with you," the new San Francisco Giants manager admitted last Tuesday ...

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 ...

College football is the greatest sport in the world. It's also the dumbest. Not because of what happens between the lines, but what happens outside of them. Never has that been more apparent than in ...

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For many students, essays can feel like distant, formal tasks with little room for passion. But what if your favorite superhero saga or indie graphic novel became the centerpiece of your next ...

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 ...

Here’s an analysis of the letter bearing Donald Trump’s name that was included in a 50th birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein. The Wall Street Journal in July reported on the 2003 birthday book and ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brennan Barnard writes about the nuances of college admission. The college essay or “personal statement” gets a lot of airtime in ...