Writing about COVID-19 in the wrong way can doom your application to the reject pile instantly, while writing about it in the right way...

At most universities, you are allowed to see your application and the reviewers’ comments upon request. I decided to see my Yale application

Colleges internationally have shut down their campuses and in-person research operations in response to the COVID-19 crisis...

Because most gap year programs and internships have been canceled, students interested in doing a gap year must think out of the box...

More Elite Schools Are Becoming Test Optional A growing number of schools are becoming test optional. In a statement published on its website, Cornell Univer...

We've received a lot of questions from concerned and stressed parents trying to find ways to navigate the upcoming application cycle...

As high school students head into winter break, summer vacation is probably the furthest thing from their minds. And that is just fine. Winter break is a g...

Article originally published on Forbes.com in December, 2018. College application deadlines are just around the corner. At this point, high school seniors h...

You’ve probably heard that it’s a bad idea to write your college application essay about world peace, a sports game (or sports in general), a trip, the death...

If you are applying to college, or plan on applying to college sometime in the next few years, you’re probably asking yourself the following question: how im...

Welcome to the supplemental essays for the University of Chicago! These are a doozy. I'll be frank with you: I can only take you so far with these in a blo...

You’ve got three essays to write for Notre Dame. Everyone must answer the first question (“Why This College?”). Then you get to choose two prompts from a lis...

Welcome to the Northwestern supplemental essay for the 2019-2020 application cycle! You've got just one question to respond to, and it's probably the most c...

Welcome to the Johns Hopkins supplemental essay for the 2019-2020 application cycle! Johns Hopkins asks only one supplemental essay question, so you’re going...

Welcome to the Cornell supplement for the 2019-2020 application cycle! For Cornell, you only need to write one supplemental essay, but it’s a rather long one...

Welcome to the Duke supplement for the 2019-2020 application cycle! Duke asks three questions. One is required, one is technically optional (but actually isn...

Welcome to the Brown University supplement for the 2019-2020 application cycle! You’ve got three pretty standard questions: “Why This College: Academics,” “W...

Welcome to the Penn supplement for the 2019-2020 application cycle! Unlike many other Ivy League schools, Penn doesn’t ask you a zillion questions. In fact, ...

Before I get started, I want to warn you: the Stanford supplement is very long, and very difficult to write. You can often get a sense of what a school is lo...

Welcome to the Harvard supplementals for the 2019-2020 application cycle. Buckle up—there are a ton of questions. The good news is you don’t have to write ab...