In January, I raised my hourly rate to $300 before wondering if I could get away with charging anything at all. I teach high-schoolers how to write college essays, helping students claw their way out ...

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There has been a lot of hand-wringing from humanities types over ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that can produce uncannily human prose. Headlines bemoaning the impact this will have on ...

At its core, Irena Smith’s job as an independent college counselor means being a writing coach. With a PhD in comparative literature, the former Stanford admissions officer helps her teenage clients ...

The genre is often maligned for being formulaic and melodramatic, but it’s more important than you think. By Nell Freudenberger Most high school seniors approach the college essay with dread. Either ...

We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote. The new technology could pose a challenge for college admissions ...

I asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to write some college admissions essays and sent them to experts to review. Both of the experts said the essays seemed like they had been written by a real student. However, ...