For eight years, I've worked with high-school students to perfect their college-admission essays. I often see students think their ideas are completely original; the ideas have been done before.

Rosary High School in Aurora will be hosting two practice high school entrance exams for all current eighth-graders - boys and girls - at 9 a.m. on Saturdays, Oct. 1 and 29.

College admissions is such a critical moment in a person’s life, he said in an interview, and “the cost of falsely condemning someone's essay is just so high, [that] I'm not sure we can accept ...

Hunter College High School Wednesday ... can sit for the school’s three-hour entrance exam, including two multiple-choice sections for reading and math, and an essay or creative writing assignment.