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New federal hiring guidelines from the White House include a series of essay questions that amount to a presidential loyalty test, critics said. The new guidelines are aimed at candidates for civil ...

Whether it is finding where Waldo really is, considering who Sally sells her seashells to or exploring what can actually be divided by zero, every University of Chicago undergraduate since the 1980s ...

This summer, amidst the chaos happening within higher education, Duke overhauled the list of supplemental essay questions on its undergraduate application. Among the three optional essay prompts that ...

The essays are one of the most important parts of your application. We ask that they reflect your own thinking and analysis while demonstrating your writing skills. These essays should be in ...

The Office of Personnel Management last month quietly sought to backpedal on plans to evaluate federal job seekers on a series of essay questions, after critics accused the measure of politicizing the ...

With affirmative action banned, application essays ask about “life experience,” the one place in admissions where discussing race is still explicitly legal. By Anemona Hartocollis and Colbi Edmonds — ...