The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

Comedian and TV producer Jimmy Kimmel speaks during the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on October 8, 2025 (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Jimmy Kimmel is set to deliver a ...

When government teacher Alex Gray was tasked with grading her students’ argumentative essays, she decided to seek a second opinion: an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot. Using Magic School — an AI ...

Pope Leo XIV condemned the use of religion for justifying “war,” “violence” or “fanaticism” on Friday – instead urging Catholics to mobilize their faith and unify others “regardless of ethnicity, ...

The Palace is worried about Prince Harry's recent essay. The Duke of Sussex wrote about his British identity, saying he "currently" lives in the United States. "Royal aides are sweating." Prince Harry ...

The Duke of Sussex, a British Army veteran, reflected ahead of Remembrance Day Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the world's most famous families ...

The short-video app TikTok has become one of the most used social media platforms globally. Its affordances are distinctly different from those of prior apps and platforms—specifically due to TikTok’s ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

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 ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. The piece rightly notes that the ...