Eric Karlan
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first heard May 2019
last heard May 2019
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Right.
So first of all, there's a lot of different types of college application essay prompts out there.
So
If we want to break them down into two categories, there's one essay that is called the personal statement.
Interchangeably, some people will call it the common app essay because you have this common application, which students will use for probably the majority of colleges that they apply to.
And on the common app, there's this personal statement, which is a one page 650 word essay.
And there's,
Seven topics this year and they there's some specificity to them.
There are topics like tell us about a challenge that you've encountered or an obstacle you've encountered and how you overcome it.
You can also tackle a question like tell us.
about a time that you challenged a belief or idea.
What did you do about it?
What prompted you to take action?
But believe it or not, one of the seven prompts is just topic of your choice, write about anything.
So that's that main essay where the prompts are really loose guidelines and ideas that get you started.
Then the rest of the essays can be grouped under a category called supplemental essays.
And those vary by category.
college and university.
So some schools, like a Northeastern University in Boston or University of Miami in Florida, have zero supplement essays at all.
And then you have a school like Wake Forest University that has seven supplement essays, including a prompt.
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