Startling 97% of Gen Z students are using AI to write essays, do homework — and even get into college

Startling 97% of Gen Z students are using AI to write essays, do homework — and even get into college

Why do your own homework when a robot can do it for you? Nearly every Gen Z student is now relying on AI to get through school — with 97% saying they’ve used tools like ChatGPT, according to a new ScholarshipOwl survey of more than 12,000 high school and college students. More than 1 in … Read more

This app can detect early signs of heart failure in 7 seconds — and was invented by a 14-year-old from Texas

This app can detect early signs of heart failure in 7 seconds — and was invented by a 14-year-old from Texas

Talk about a kid with a lot of heart. A 14-year-old from Frisco, Texas, developed a groundbreaking smartphone app to detect early signs of heart disease in just seven seconds. Circadian AI records heart sounds, filters out ambient noise and analyzes the data using a cloud-based machine learning model — all by placing a smartphone … Read more

Four years into NIL, coaches, agents reveal heartache and frustration of students’ big money chase

Four years into NIL, coaches, agents reveal heartache and frustration of students’ big money chase

In late December, University of Miami hoops coach Jim Larranaga retired two months into the season. There was no scandal behind it, no family reasons given. Larranaga — who has taken two teams to the Final Four, most recently in 2023 — told The Post thisweek: “It’s not that I don’t love coaching anymore or wanted … Read more

College student’s kitchen request sparks viral online debate: ‘It felt kind of entitled’

College student’s kitchen request sparks viral online debate: ‘It felt kind of entitled’

A Reddit user was irked when a friend of his girlfriend asked if she could come over to their place “just to use our kitchen.” “I barely know her, and it’s not like it’s an emergency,” user “Pikachu930” wrote recently on a Reddit forum.  “But what made it even weirder is that my girlfriend told me we … Read more

Pinterest is pushing teens to close the app and pause notifications at school: ‘Stay in the moment’

Pinterest is pushing teens to close the app and pause notifications at school: ‘Stay in the moment’

Pinterest is getting on board with the movement to get kids off their phones. The social-media platform is testing a new pop-up displayed to minors in the U.S. and Canada during school hours, encouraging them to close the app until the bell rings. “Focus is a beautiful thing,” the prompt reads, according to The Verge. … Read more

Exclusive | I super-commute to NYC every week — it’s an exhausting 4,000-mile trip but worth it

Exclusive | I super-commute to NYC every week — it’s an exhausting 4,000-mile trip but worth it

For Nat Cedillo, jet-setting from one hotspot city to another each week is no cheap thrill.  It’s a necessary evil of her pricey, punishing super-commute.  “I travel from Mexico City to New York City so that I can attend my law school classes,” Cedillo, 30, an aspiring intellectual property attorney, tells The Post. “It’s exhausting, … Read more

Grad student lives in a closet-sized micro-apartment — and finds the ‘minimalist lifestyle liberating’

Grad student lives in a closet-sized micro-apartment — and finds the ‘minimalist lifestyle liberating’

A graduate student who moved into a 77square-foot micro-apartment says she has found the minimalist lifestyle liberating. Lydia Rouka, 27, is an international graduate student in Seoul, South Korea, where she studies business. The 8 ft. x 9 ft. micro-apartment, also known as a goshiwon, consists of a single bed, a desk and chair, shelving, … Read more

The secret reasons why top students are getting accepted to the Ivy League — and rejected by other schools

The secret reasons why top students are getting accepted to the Ivy League — and rejected by other schools

Students and parents have long approached the admissions process with a simple assumption: If you can get into an Ivy League school, you can get in anywhere. Based on that assumption, many applicants devote all of their time, energy and effort to their Harvard application first, then plan to tinker with their essays a bit … Read more

Another teacher is taking credit for the Christmas gifts I’m buying our students

Another teacher is taking credit for the Christmas gifts I’m buying our students

A teacher has been left irritated by her co-teacher because she won’t purchase Christmas gifts for the students.   They share the class, but she says she contributes more to the job financially.  “My colleague won’t spend anything on the class, she doesn’t believe they deserve her money,” the frustrated woman says in a viral post.   “I didn’t put … Read more

Love notes and ‘crude’ doodles unearthed beneath a high school’s floors after 150 years

Love notes and ‘crude’ doodles unearthed beneath a high school’s floors after 150 years

Blast from the past. 150-year-old love notes written by high school students were found in the floorboards of a school in Maine, according to Bangor Daily News. Preservation contractor Lee Hoagland started working on the University of Southern Maine’s Academy Building in 2022, and over the course of a year he found hidden papers in a space … Read more

Students at $67K-a-year Yale offered course on Beyoncé and ‘Black Radical Tradition’

Students at K-a-year Yale offered course on Beyoncé and ‘Black Radical Tradition’

With a record 99 Grammy nominations and acclaim as one of the most influential artists in music history, pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University next year. Titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music,” the one-credit class will focus … Read more

College-bound Gen Z is choosing a school based on how it will look on TikTok

College-bound Gen Z is choosing a school based on how it will look on TikTok

There are so many reasons for choosing where to attend college, but for the TikTok generation, the deciding factor is how aesthetically pleasing campus life will be. Gen Z is basing its decision for higher education based on how well it can be documented on social media platforms like TikTok. College-bound teens are looking for … Read more

College students slammed for using blackface to dress as Diddy for Halloween: ‘Despicable’

College students slammed for using blackface to dress as Diddy for Halloween: ‘Despicable’

Diddy think this was a good idea? Wearing offensive getups seems like a Halloween tradition at this point. This year, college students have been excoriated online after donning blackface so they could masquerade as disgraced rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs for the 2024 scream season. “Aside from the blatant and despicable blackface, this is just an … Read more

Catholic schoolgirls storm McDonalds, wreak mayhem dressed in Ronald McDonald costumes

Catholic schoolgirls storm McDonalds, wreak mayhem dressed in Ronald McDonald costumes

A group of Aussie schoolgirls have gone viral after they stormed McDonalds while dressed as Ronald McDonald, causing utter mayhem. Videos showing the muck up day prank have amassed millions of views after the students from Sacre Coeur in Glen Iris, Victoria shared them on TikTok. At least 100 girls donned the iconic yellow and red … Read more

Elite colleges shocked to discover students ‘don’t know how’ to read books: ‘My jaw dropped’

Elite colleges shocked to discover students ‘don’t know how’ to read books: ‘My jaw dropped’

Several university professors expressed concerns to the Atlantic about students who come to college unable to read full-length books. Assistant editor Rose Horowitch spoke to several teachers from elite schools like Columbia, Georgetown and Stanford, who each described the phenomenon of students being overwhelmed by the prospect of reading entire books. Columbia University humanities professor Nicholas Dames described … Read more

Teacher offers extra credit to students who don’t use the bathroom — parents ‘livid’ over ‘barbaric’ policy

Teacher offers extra credit to students who don’t use the bathroom — parents ‘livid’ over ‘barbaric’ policy

This math teacher’s pee policy doesn’t add up. A California educator has been accused of cruelty after awarding bonus points to students who don’t take a bathroom break during class. A peeved parent of one of the pedagogue’s pupils leaked the bizarre bathroom rule in a post that has clocked up over 16 million views … Read more

Exclusive | College students now want designer dorms — and parents are spending thousands: ‘Every room is done to the nines’

Exclusive | College students now want designer dorms — and parents are spending thousands: ‘Every room is done to the nines’

College students are done with the uninspiring shabby cinderblock walls, chipped wooden furniture and dirty carpeting of dormitories. Now, those grim spaces are increasingly becoming far more chic with high-end designs matching the tastes of the TikTok-obsessed generation embarking on independent living. As part of a national trend, college kids are increasingly asking their parents … Read more

Gen Z slang words banned in Florida classroom as teacher challenges students to ‘be better’

Gen Z slang words banned in Florida classroom as teacher challenges students to ‘be better’

No aura points for her. The slang-loving students of Florida science teacher Angela Santalo were left speechless after the exasperated educator banned a long list of Gen Z and Gen Alpha lingo from her classroom, including “pookie,” “aura,” “bro” and “womp womp.” “What prompted me to create the list of banned words was the constant … Read more

New survey reveals what keeps college students up at night

New survey reveals what keeps college students up at night

College students have a lot on their minds as they head back to school. What’s the right major? Will they need to take out more student loans to cover costs? What will the job market look like when they graduate? To dig into college students’ perspectives on the upcoming school year, Forbes Advisor conducted a survey of … Read more

Beating the odds: How students stand out and get into Harvard

Beating the odds: How students stand out and get into Harvard

New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The world of college admissions looks vastly different today than it did even five years ago, and seismic shifts in the admissions landscape have led to greater transparency regarding what top schools look for … Read more