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• Fall 2018 Prompts Rock

  7 Sep 2017

  Fall 2018 Prompts Rock We love many of the Fall 2018 prompts. One favorite is one of Oklahoma State University’s prompts.  “I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail,” Muriel Strode said. Identify a […]

• 2018 Common App is Open and 2018 Stanford Member Questions

  1 Aug 2017

  The 2018 Common Application Is Open Major changes to Common Application include: Academics: You can add up to 15 courses this year and pre-set schedule type at the beginning. Writing: You can link to a google document. It pastes it in, so no avoiding word counts. Grades: Some colleges can […]

• Dartmouth College 2017-2018 Writing Supplement

  29 Jul 2017

  Dartmouth College 2017-2018 Writing Supplement Great new prompts from Dartmouth. We are including them all as a present because the madness of updating begins on Tuesday. THE DARTMOUTH WRITING SUPPLEMENT Dartmouth’s writing supplement requires that applicants write brief responses to two supplemental essay prompts as follows: 1. Please respond in 100 words […]

• 2017-2018 U Penn-Specific Prompts Released

  21 Jul 2017

  2017-2018 U Penn-Specific Prompts Released Prospective applicants to the University of Pennsylvania recently received an email with the 2017-2018 writing prompts. The email started with a great quote from Ben Franklins: “Write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” That is great advice for all college applicants. We posted […]

• 2018 Boston College Writing Supplement

  18 Jul 2017

  2018 Boston Writing Supplement The writing supplement topics for Fall 2018 first-year applicants are: We would like to get a better sense of you. Please respond to one of the following prompts. (400 word limit) 1. Human beings have a creative side that tends to shine most when we are […]