Are we sacrificing our youth for college admissions?

“It isn’t fair to deprive ourselves of memories of youthful experiences that don’t revolve around the college admissions process,” writes Malcolm Carral Abreu (Photo: MALCOLM CARRAL ABREU/The Stanford Daily) 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 […]

12 Strategies to Writing the Perfect College Essay

College admission committees sift through thousands of college essays each year. Here’s how to make yours stand out. Pamela ReynoldsIs a Boston-area feature writer and editor whose work appears in numerous publications. She is the author of “Revamp: A Memoir of Travel and Obsessive Renovation.” When it comes to deciding who they will admit into […]