Controversy has erupted over both Adichie's views on gender and her argument that social media has become a breeding ground ...

In February, I wrote a guest piece for the Daily Cal’s yearly Sex Issue about how “the personal is not always political,” in which I tried to explore quite a few topics in about 800 words: I ...

Every year more than a million students use the Common Application, a standardized electronic form accepted by more than 1,000 colleges, to apply to college. And every year since 1976, the Common App, ...

As someone who has spent more than two decades helping high school students navigate how to write personal essays for their college applications, I regularly advise them to answer prompts fully, stick ...

A member of the board of admissions examining applications at Princeton University in 1962. School is out and summer is here. Yet future high school seniors and their families are likely already ...