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People tell you to write the personal essay (common/coalition essay) about something personal that only you could write about and that shows a piece of your story that would be missing from your appli …

How exactly does the peer review service work? I used it like once or twice, expedited on both, and one got reviewed in like half an hour while the other one took like 8. The conclusion I came up with …

Hi, I was just wondering if the essay I submitted for review on this site is reviewed by multiple people. I dont want too many people to have access to it, because Im worried someone may copy it. Than …

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I'm currently working on my Yale application and have come to the "Why Yale?" essay. From my reading, I've often seen that I should talk about specific attributes of the school I am applying to.

Cur …

I've seen some of the essay breakdown livestream and I was wondering, how could I get my essay to be reviewed on the stream?

So, let's say that I'm writing an essay and I decide to talk about how several events changed my perspective/actions in a variety of ways. For the sake of word cap, can I just say " (x) inspired my wo …

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I'm applying to a selective LAC. I feel a why school essay should have an academic reason. However, the school in question has no special or 'unique' academic offering or courses. What I mean …

I want to delete an essay that has already been reviewed. How do I do that? I just want to make sure that the essay is no longer up.

I am interested in the scholars program. It says it’s highly selective but does not have a minimum requirement to apply. Does anyone have insight to this? How many applicants apply and get in? I am ru …

I am applying to UNC Early Action out-of-state. I am running out of time, so I am focusing on shortening my personal statement and the second required supplement.

Would it be better for me to submit a …

I am worried that if I post my essay it may show up as plagiarized on my apps. If the admissions office ran my essay through something like turnitin.com, it would show up as being on the site, right? …

How can I submit my essay for review to Elias in today's session as there's no link available in the description ?

I am a senior in highschool and I was wondering if writing about my unique family would be a good common app personal essay topic (Prompt 1?)? I have over 20 family members who all live within 20 minu …

I am senior in highschool, and I am writing my common app personal essay. For my essay topic I was wondering if it was too cliche to write about football and how the injuries I sustained from led me t …

I'm applying to NCSU on November 1, and they have an optional question about obstacles you have faced, I would write about an injury I had, but I already used that on the "why major" essay as it inspi …

I am a senior in high school trying to figure out what my college admissions essay should be about. I would like to write my essay on Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez, but I’m not sure if it is a good enough …

Hi, I’m a senior and plan to apply to US. Regarding my common app essay, I initially wrote my outline over the summer but don’t know if its college essay worthy. Hence, I’d like to ask for someone’s o …

Hey guys! Rising junior here, and I'm considering applying to more selective schools. So, to sum it up, one of the essay topics that I am heavily considering writing goes something like:

Talk about gr …

so I am applying to a public university with an honors college with the intent of going to the honors college. The application for the public university and the honors college are all put together but …

I have submitted my essay on CollegeVine and I’m afraid that my essay’s ideas will be copied by some reviewers.