Carter Osborne started a side hustle tutoring students on their college admissions essays in 2017. The Stanford graduate shared his recommendations for students looking to ace their personal essays.

To write a good university essay you have to make your message clear. This means organizing your key points, supporting them with a series of evidence-based arguments, and wrapping it all up at the ...

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, ...

At my university the time has come (indeed, the deadline has come) for the process of grading the final exams from the fall semester. I started working on my stack of examination books speedily, ...

One of the popular items that circulate through the Internet is a bubble-off-plumb set of rules along the lines of “Thimk,” “We Never Make Misteaks” and “Plan Ahe …” — injunctions that call attention ...

My 11-year-old son recently reported with horror that the word "funner" has been added to the dictionary. "What's wrong with that?" I asked. He gaped. "IT'S NOT A WORD." "Sure it is," I said. "Little ...