Columbia is one of hundreds of colleges that accept the Common App, a standardized undergraduate college application. One of the most daunting parts of the application is the essay, where ...

Want to know what it takes to get into Columbia University, which had a 6.9% acceptance rate this year? We just got a clue thanks to Peter Jacobs at IvyGate, who discovered an online folder where ...

High-school senior Brittany Stinson was accepted into five Ivy League schools — Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and Cornell. She also got into Stanford, which has an ...

Meet Brittany Stinson, an 18-year-old senior at Concord High School in Wilmington, Delaware, who just last week found out she got into Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth ...

"The essay really can cause me to look more deeply at the entire application," Dr. Stephen Nicholas, former senior associate dean of admissions with the Columbia University Vagelos College of ...

Sept. 2, 2010— -- When it comes to applying to college, many students fear the personal essay above all. Bari Norman, a former admissions officer at Columbia University and president of ...

Many college applications require a personal essay, which can be daunting for students to write. But a few simple tips, some introspection and insight into what admissions officers are looking for ...

That's exactly right, and extends beyond the college essay. Basically everything you wrote when you were 17 is going to be embarrassing, whether it was for an Ivy League university or junior year ...