The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

OU alum and Dallas attorney Shauna Izadi provided this email, which she sent to the OU Board of Regents, to the OU Daily for publication as a guest column. Dear members of the University of Oklahoma ...

This story has been updated at 1:30 p.m. ET. A trio of federal employee unions on Thursday sued the Office of Personnel Management seeking to excise essay questions recently added to most federal job ...

From the moment we wake to the last scrolls before sleep, our phones are an intimate extension of ourselves. Most Americans check their phones within minutes of waking up, and keep their devices ...

Mr. Houser is a former chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Nearly nine months into President Trump’s second term, immigration enforcement has become the administration’s primary ...