In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: sometimes, what you leave out of your essay matters more than what you put in. As Sophie ...

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to ...

Carter Osborne started tutoring to pay for grad school tuition. He found a niche tutoring college essays, and his business took off. He quit his full-time job and last year he made $220,000 tutoring.

Mr. Driver is a professor at Yale Law School and the author of the forthcoming book “The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education.” For many ambitious ...