Class of 2014

2014 Indiana University and Arizona State Apps Are Up Indiana University releases first mandatory essay. Yeah.  All freshman applicants are required to submit a brief personal statement as part of the admission application. You will be asked to share any information about your background or experience that may not be […]

2014 Indiana University and Arizona State Apps Are Up

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2013-2014 Harvey Mudd Supplement Below are the writing supplement prompts that will appear on the Common Application for Harvey Mudd College: Short Answer Response- Please answer the following. (500 word limit) What influenced you to apply to Harvey Mudd College? What about the HMC curriculum and community appeals to you? […]

2013-2014 Harvey Mudd Supplement

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2013-2014 Swarthmore Writing Supplement As part of the writing supplement, you will be asked to respond to the following short essay topics. 500 word limit for each. Please write about why you are interested in applying to and attending Swarthmore. (500 word limit) Swarthmore’s residential liberal arts community is shaped by […]

2013-2014 Swarthmore Writing Supplement

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Waiting, waiting, waiting for 2014 CA4 Writing Supplements We thought the CA4 had promised to release all (or even most) Writing Supplements with its new CA4 launch yesterday. No such luck. Not one was posted on August 1, 2014. So we have been busily updating the other info we can […]

Waiting, waiting, waiting for 2014 CA4 Writing Supplements

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2013-2014 Columbia Writing Supplement (will be posted on Common App in mid-August) From Columbia Admissions Website: In addition to the Common Application, applicants are asked to respond to Columbia-specific questions to tell the Admissions Committee more about their academic, extracurricular and intellectual interests. We review the responses to these questions […]

2013-2014 Columbia University Writing Supplement

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2013-2014 Writing Supplement (Thanks to CMU) 2013-2014 Carnegie Mellon Writing Supplement  1. Please submit a one page, single-spaced essay that explains why you have chosen Carnegie Mellon and your particular major(s), department(s) or program(s). This essay should include the reasons why you’ve chosen the major(s), any goals or relevant work […]

2013-2014 Carnegie Mellon Writing Supplement

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2014 UT-Austin Essays UT Austin is not using the Apply Texas essays as most other Texas public universities. Please see the following for the specifics. http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/admission/essays Applicants must do C and then A, B, D, or S. 2014 U Texas Austin Prompts Essay Topics for Summer/Fall 2014 and Beyond UT […]

2014 University of Texas-Austin Essays

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2013-2014 Cornell Writing Supplement From the Cornell Admissions Blog. http://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2013/07/19/cornell-university-common-application-essay-questions/ The 2014 Common Application will be live on Thursday, August 1. The Cornell Essays and Questions section of the application will ask you to complete the essay question for the specific college/school you are applying to. If you are utilizing the primary/alternate […]

2013-2014 Cornell Writing Supplement

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2013-2014 Pitzer Writing Supplement The Pitzer Writing Supplement section of the Common Application gives you an opportunity to show your writing ability and illustrate your passion and creativity in responding to a particular question. Because we want to get to know you and discover what you have to offer this […]

2013-2014 Pitzer Writing Supplement

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2013-2014 Babson Writing Supplement From the Babson admissions website (http://blogs.babson.edu/undergraduate/2013/07/19/tours-essays-and-popsicles/) “…this seems to be the week of  schools posting their essay topics (Google College Essay topics 2013-2014) and we at Babson are no different. This year we changed our essay prompt, thanks to suggestions via Facebook from the incoming first year class. […]

2013-2014 Babson Writing Supplement

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