Starting this summer, applicants using the Common Application will have five new essay prompts to choose from, including one that asks them to describe “a place or environment where you are perfectly ...

One of the most frustrating things about Google Docs is having to manually access the menu every time you need to check if you've finally hit that essay's elusive word count. The tech giant is finally ...

Sign up to get the best of Philly, every day. Applications to Swarthmore College dropped 16 percent this year, and the school has a culprit: The extra supplemental ...