The college essay favors students who know how to exaggerate their adversity and fake humility.

It's the start of the college application season, and 12th-graders are searching their lives for subject matter for essays, writes Robert...

It's time to dump college admissions essays, writes Matthew Levey on The 74. Test scores and good grades in challenging courses are...

Writing about race is more popular than ever for black, Hispanic and indigenous college applicants, writes Bernard Mokam in the New York...

"Safe to say Harvard is out," Demar Goodman, who's black, told a friend when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected race-based college...