In a gut-wrenching essay published Tuesday in Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter, best-selling author Jessica Knoll revealed that she was a victim of gang rape as a teenager. Like Knoll, the Luckiest Girl ...

To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays. Today’s edition is a bit different: a ...

A student had her Harvard university admission essay go viral after she shared her story on the social media platform TikTok. The essay went into her strong dislike of the letter ‘S’ and how it ...

I found the collection of letters to the editor in your Feb. 10, 2010, issue responding to Thomas Hehir’s Commentary “Charters: Students With Disabilities Need Not Apply?” (Jan. 27, 2010) to be ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

If each applicant must submit three letters, and each letter takes three hours to write and submit, how many faculty work hours are consumed when 104 applicants apply for a single position? Last night ...

Faculty members often seem to lack insight into how to write strong letters on their students’ behalf, writes Manya Whitaker, who offers 10 guidelines for improvement. A few years ago, I wrote “A ...