Controversy has erupted over both Adichie's views on gender and her argument that social media has become a breeding ground for toxicity ...

In February, I wrote a guest piece for the Daily Cal’s yearly Sex Issue about how “the personal is not always political,” in which I tried to explore quite a few topics in about 800 words: I ...

As someone who has spent more than two decades helping high school students navigate how to write personal essays for their college applications, I regularly advise them to answer prompts fully, stick ...

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, ...