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Using College Essay Organizer with the Common Application will allow you to get right down to writing great essays, as opposed to wasting your time trying to find and organize all your different essay questions and figure out how the essay topics may overlap. The Common Application (often called the Common App) has 2 standard essay questions and 1 optional essay question, but many of the participating colleges also require supplemental essays, which are different for each college. For example, if you are applying to 7 colleges, you can easily have
more than 15 essay questions! College Essay Organizer provides each college's Common Application supplemental essays organized in one simple document, as well as the
many program-specific and scholarship questions, most of which are not listed on the Common App and can easily be overlooked on the colleges' hard-to-navigate websites.
Avoid rushing to finish essays you discover too late, or missing deadline altogether!
Common Application Supplemental Essay Examples.
Here are just a few Common App colleges with many supplemental essays (in addition to the 2 required Common App questions):
- Syracuse has 4 required essays and 5 program-specific essays
- Tufts has 2 required essays and 1 optional essay
- Penn has 1 required essay and 6 program-specific essays
- Macalaster has 2 required and 2 optional essays, plus 1 special applicant essay
- Carleton has 5 required essays and 1 optional essay
- Yale has 2 required essays and 5 short-take essays
- Caltech has 3 required essays and 2 optional essays
- Princeton has 2 required essays, plus 1 program-specific essay
- Michigan has 2 required essays
- Case Western has 3 scholarship essays, as well as 2 program-specific essays
- NYU has 3 required essays and, ahem, 27 program-specific essays
(yes, we're serious)
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Successful Essay Tips.
TIP 1 - Program-Specific Questions Are Good For You: While the many program-specific questions seem daunting, they help you discover different programs that may appeal to you and even help you get accepted. For instance, maybe you never considered applying to Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, but after seeing the essay requirements on College Essay Organizer
, you realize that this program might not only be right up your alley but also is going to help you gain the competitive admissions edge because of your special talents and background related to the hospitality industry.
TIP 2 - Optional Means Opportunity: When a college asks you a question and says it's optional, think of it like a parent asking you to do your chores; you don't have to do them, but if you don't, you're probably not going to get the keys to the family car that weekend. Optional questions present you with the opportunity to convey your passions and interests to people eager to learn more about you. Use such space wisely, and it can make all the difference.
TIP 3 - A Problem Well Organized Is A Problem Half Solved: You can spend several hours organizing all your essay requirements in one clear document (which you know you'll never actually do) and hope that you locate all the hard-to-find supplemental, program-specific, optional, and scholarship questions —and then try to figure out how many original essays you need to write (and on which topics) to make this a quick and simple process. Or you can get started now for FREE and let College Essay Organizer
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