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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 ...

President Donald Trump announced the creation of government-sponsored investment accounts for children under age 18 as part of the sweeping budget bill he signed into law on July 4, 2025. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A First Amendment controversy is brewing in Oklahoma over a college essay that led to an allegation of religious discrimination ...

College football is the greatest sport in the world. It's also the dumbest. Not because of what happens between the lines, but what happens outside of them. Never has that been more apparent than in ...

For years, high-schoolers have boasted in college applications about learning Latin, leading the chess club or acing Advanced Placement Physics. Now there is a new way to get a leg up: Show how well ...

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Amid the string of recent firings across college football, Colorado coach Deion Sanders was asked about whether or not fan bases and college football decision makers needed to exercise more patience ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from before ChatGPT was released, Cornell University researchers found that AI ...

Eight hundred years ago, a group of scholars walked out of the University of Oxford after a bitter and violent dispute with local townspeople. At a fork in the road, the scholars might have turned ...