Common App Essay Prompts Released

The 2025-2026 Common App Essay Prompts Are Out! Attention rising high-school seniors! The 2025-2026 Common App Essay Prompts have been released. While the prompts haven’t changed since the 2024-2025 school year, there are some changes to the “Additional Information” section and questions. According to the official Common App website, the following are the new prompts

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Tweens and Social Media: Yay or Nay?

Tweens today face a whole new set of obstacles in the social landscape that did not exist when their parents were at that stage. With evolving technology, there are numerous benefits but also some causes for concern. How do parents help guide children through this? Which apps are most popular? Snapchat Snapchat is a program that allows users to send photos,

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More Sleep Helps Teens Cope With the Pandemic

If you're the parent of a teenager, you know it can be hard to drag them out of bed before lunchtime. Teenage bodies have a "delayed biological rhythm" and tend to prefer to go to bed later and sleep later in the morning. A recent study by Gruber et al. published in the Child and

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