I'm an interviewer for the University of Pennsylvania and a high school senior asked me, "What do I have to do to get in? I have a friend who has the same grades and SATs as me, and she got in." On College...

Hasbro is making what you might call a game-changing move to its best-known board game—cutting one of its famous Monopoly tokens in favor of something a bit, well, different. What's getting the axe? That'...

A study has found that folks who consume more sweetened drinks, whether sodas or fruit drinks, diet or regular—are more likely to be depressed. The study, presented at the American Academy of Neurology's ...

Sexting—sending and receiving sexualized pictures via cell phone or computer—is already a serious problem among teens; but despite efforts to curb the practice, a handful of new programs may exacerb...

One of every five high school girls binge drink, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a ratio that translates into millions of female teens consuming dangerous amounts of alcoh...

A growing number of colleges are giving graduating students special tools to help improve their online profiles. Syracuse University uses a service called BrandYourself, which helps users push more positive res...

Feeling her parents' Internet guidelines were too strict, a California teen—with the help of her friend—drugged her parents so the two would be able to go online, according to police. The 16- and 15-year-ol...

If they grow sentient, we're all in trouble. Internet-savvy devices now outnumber people in the United States, according to a study by the NPD Group. Research suggests there are 425 million gadgets capable of I...

Generation Opportunity, a national, non-partisan organization advocating for Millennials ages 18 to 29, is announcing its Millennial Jobs Report for December 2012. The data is non-seasonally adjusted (NSA)...

The city of St. Paul, Minn., told a local candy store it had to stop selling cigarettes to kids or face a $500 fine. Oh, did we mention the cigarettes in question were made of candy? St. Paul passed an ordinanc...