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What should I include in my Carnegie Mellon supplemental essays?

Hi everyone! So I'm applying to Carnegie Mellon and I've heard that their supplemental essays are super important. What should I be focusing on when writing these? Would love any tips or advice from people who have been through it or know about it.

a year ago

Hey there! While I haven't personally applied to CMU, I have come across great blog posts from collegevine that go through how to write supplemental essays and I know they have one for Carnegie Mellon: https://blog.collegevine.com/how-to-write-the-carnegie-mellon-essays

This is a great resource to help you figure out what to write (and what not to write), and I hope you find it as useful as I found their other blog posts when I was applying to colleges!

a year ago

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