Across the globe, students at every level—from kindergarten through college—have faced challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’re...

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The Common App recently announced its new essay prompts for 2017-18. Here we describe and analyze changes to the prompts and offer our thoug

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In How and Why You Diversify Colleges (New York Times, May 15, 2016), Frank Bruni explores the efforts undertaken by some elite private...

The Making Caring Common Project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education recently issued “Turning the Tide,” the first in a series of...

In January 2016, a group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report entitled "Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for...

Many high school juniors and their families are planning to visit colleges during spring break. College visits are an important part of...

When we first meet with students and their families, they’re familiar with the SAT and ACT. But when we ask whether the student has taken...