My Beginnings," Bill Gates explained the different approaches he took when applying to Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.

Admissions officers don’t have time to read your autobiography, so they ask you to keep your personal statement brief. Most law schools limit you to two double-spaced pages, although some allow three ...

Before Paul Graham defined "founder mode," Bill Gates embodied a similar approach when cofounding Microsoft in the 1970s.

I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.

Interruptions, both external and self-inflicted, are no longer the exception; they’ve become our default mode. How can you ...

The "Armenian Smyrna/Izmir The Aegean Communities" volume was the outcome in a series of research topics explored in ...

And yet, when the numbers came in, several of the most selective colleges in the country reported the opposite results. Yale, ...

As Musk’s team barrels its way through the government seeking access to sensitive information, questions are arising about ...

A recent Faculty of Arts and Sciences report recommended that the FAS enforce a non-attribution policy for classroom speech — but professors questioned at a Tuesday meeting whether the proposed rule ...

A Cambridge-based edtech startup dedicated to helping elementary and middle school students learn how to write better completed a $2.5 million seed round.

Ida Porter Boyer, a Schuylkill County woman who played a leading role in the women’s suffrage movement, is on track to being ...