Many college applications feature 500-word essays. Short in-class papers often have a similar word count. At Gustavus Adolphus College, a 500-word essay can also be the institution's punishment for ...

Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C., where lawyer-moms are thick on the ground. She's asked us not to use her last name to prevent mortification to her son Doug. He is quite mortified ...

Sign up to get the best of Philly, every day. Applications to Swarthmore College dropped 16 percent this year, and the school has a culprit: The extra supplemental ...