Every year, I help several hundred high school seniors navigate the college admissions process. Our students are not typically wealthy. About 20% are considered low-income and eligible for Pell Grants ...

Last spring, Makena, then a high school senior, was deep into cranking out some 70 essays for 20 college applications when her creativity started to wane. So, she turned to a high-tech brainstorming ...

While for some, October signals the arrival of fall and the holiday season, for high school seniors, it indicates something else: college application season. This process has historically been the ...

Are you a helicopter parent or a hands-off parent? Your approach can make or break your child’s chances of getting into their dream school. Here are key ways to find the right balance. If parents ...

Implicit bias is nearly impossible to erase, according to one student. Last June, the Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 decision, ...

Applying for — and choosing — colleges can be a strain on parents and teens. Here's how to deal. (Getty Images) With graduation just months away, most high school seniors are in the throes of their ...

On a recent scroll through my LinkedIn, I stumbled upon a profile of a sixth grader. Shocked, I clicked on it and went through it. I saw how they had more accolades than I had in my senior year of ...

Last weekend, as Americans took down their skeleton decorations and kids across the country recovered from the previous night’s sugar shock, almost 200,000 high school seniors took part in an annual ...

"But in the end, the college knows what they’re doing," Paltrow tells 'Bustle' Ellen von Unwerth Gwyneth Paltrow is about to be an empty nester. In an interview with Bustle, the Goop founder, 51, ...

We are in the middle of that fraught period when high school students are finding out what colleges they’ve been accepted to, with about 60 percent of them going through this process right now. But ...