As last year’s seniors morph into this year’s college freshmen, an entire new body of underclassmen are turning their thoughts to college, including the members of the SheKnows Teen Council who ...

Parents, I’ll bet that when you were in high school there wasn’t such a thing as the e-sports or podcasting clubs available to join after school. The landscape of available extracurriculars contains ...

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Vander O.B. Ritchie ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History and Philosophy concentrator in Leverett House Extracurricular activities are, like many things at Harvard, intense. At the beginning ...

In recent years, discussions about inequality in the college admissions process have focused on the use of standardized tests like the SAT. But few discussions have focused on another important part ...

After spending four grueling years in high school working towards a dream college, the last thing you’d expect in your email is a rejection from college you thought would be an easy acceptance where ...

Outside of a few exceptions, college extracurriculars are of minor importance to your efforts to find a job after graduation. There is no benefit to be gained by suffering through an overwhelming load ...

College life can seem overwhelming with classes, homework, extracurriculars, and social commitments juggling act. Often, this pressure can result in burnout, a state of unrelenting physical, emotional ...

It’s no wonder that teens are feeling all of the feelings about the college application process — and even basing their lives around future applications. A significant number of teens (43.75 percent) ...