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 ...

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Game on! It’s the fall of your senior year of high school and you are ready to apply for college. Or are you? The process actually begins well before. Weighted more heavily than ever before, the ...

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Amanda McKnight knows all about the challenges of writing a college essay. The Williamsville East senior is applying to several colleges, including St. John's College in Maryland, Sarah Lawrence and ...

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Parents often ask me whether their kids should use AI to write their college essays. I say they should only do so after they've written it themselves.

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