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Common App Essay Prompt #3: Challenging a Belief or Idea
The college admissions essay gives you the opportunity to share aspects about yourself not otherwise reflected through grades and test scores. Who are you? What are your values and dreams? Are you the type of person whowill thrive in an academically and socially challenging environment as you transition into adulthood? The Common App Essay is […]
Last Updated : Sep 28, 2022
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Common App Essay Prompt #2: Overcoming a Challenge or Setback
The college admissions process can be stressful, and drafting a 650-word essay that’s supposed to explain who you are can seem daunting. We hope that the following quick guide on how todraftacompelling response to the Common Appessay prompt#2 will help ease your burdens! For additional resources regarding other Common App essay prompts and the college […]
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3 Reasons to Get Editing For Your College Admissions Essays
According to research from the Pew Research Center, due to increasingly competitive enrollment, many colleges and universities must turn prospective students away in droves. If the competition to get into your school of choice is fierce, you need any edge that you can get. Anonline essay proofreading serviceis likely to help immensely. Here’s why. 1) […]
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How to Write the Harvard Supplemental Essay
Even in the tumultuous year that has been 2020, for students applying to Harvard College, writing the school’s supplemental essay can be an important part of the application process–and considering the number of highly qualified applicants to this school, the Harvard Admissions Essay remains a daunting task. This video helps clear some things up by […]
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Answering Common App Essay Prompt #1 for 2022-2023
The Common App essay is designed to help college admissions officers learn more about who you are, how you think, and what your interests are. Essentially, they’re wondering if you’re interesting enough that they would want to spend time talking with you on a long train ride. For 2022-2023, Common App Essay Prompt #1 reads: […]
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25 Great Words to Use in a College Admissions Essay
Why is Using Good Vocabulary So Important? Using strong vocabulary in college admissions essays is crucial to articulating your skills and competencies, but also central to showing admissions officers that you can express yourself clearly in written English. Although vocabulary may not be the main aspect of your essay that the admissions committee pays attention […]
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How to Format a College Admissions Essay
The college application essay has become the most important part of applying to college. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased social equity concerns, entire public university systems such as the University of California have opted toentirely remove the ACT/SAT as an admissions requirement. The result is that high school students in 2021 are […]
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[Video] Writing the 2017-2018 Common Application: Prompts 5, 6, and 7
The Common Application Essay has been updated for 2017-2018. This means that some of the prompts have changed from previous years. This video looks at prompts 5-7 and gives some suggestions for brainstorming and responding to these individual prompts. Who will find this information useful? Students applying to US colleges with the Common Application This […]
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