As Sophie Smith, co-founder of College Contact, explained in a recent TikTok video, “If you were sitting in a job interview and you wouldn’t tell that story out loud, you shouldn’t be writing it in ...

Matthew Wong, 18, from Sherborne, wins the John Locke Global Essay Prize law category, outshining more than 63,000 students ...

Mohammed Dawud Islam was invited to attend the John Locke Academic Conference and Global Essay Prize Awards Dinner.

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Oversharing on TikTok? Fine. Oversharing in your college essay? Not so much. One admissions expert says authenticity has its limits — and we couldn’t agree more.

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Joel Mokyr has long made the case against technophobia, including in the pages of Reason.