On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She had already read 60 that week. “I could tell within the first five lines ...

Changes are afoot in standardized testing for law school applicants, from the end of logic games on the LSAT to the emergence of JD-Next as a rising alternative to the LSAT or GRE. Likewise, the LSAT ...

Here is a sample essay, written by a first-year student in a humanities course I TA-ed for a number of years ago, that is somewhat similar in form to the essay you are being asked to write on Brave ...

These writing supplements are usually shorter than the main college essay, but they're no less important, experts say. "Every word counts in getting your story across," says Deborah Davis, president ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...