In order to graduate from high school with honors, I needed to write a thesis, and for my topic I chose affirmative action. I referred to the practice as “a broken device” and called it unfair toward ...

Federal prosecutors in 2019 accused top CEOs, two Hollywood actresses and other parents of taking part in an audacious scheme to get their children into elite universities through fraud, bribes and ...

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(Editor’s note: This is the seventh essay we’ve published this year as part of Education Lab’s Student Voices program. Our Student Voices columnists are high-school and college students writing about ...

A parent who turned down an offer by college admissions scandal mastermind William “Rick” Singer to pass his son off as a football player to weasel his way into the University of Southern California ...

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In the ’90s, being a low-income student of color in the Ivy League was hard. Our population was minuscule. We were inside a place of privilege, but not fully part of it. The institution wasn’t built ...

No child’s first choice of a Christmas present would be “1001 SAT Words” and underwear. But that’s what I got the year I was 10. My parents came to the U.S. as Korean War refugees, and the gifts ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The families ensnared in the college bribery ...

Yelena Shuster is an essay coach who helps students through the college admissions process. She says that process has always been one of privilege and pressure, stress and success — which is why the ...