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Hi, I'm a senior in high school. I am applying to a lot of schools and I am looking for ways where I would be able to fund my tuition for college. I am currently considered an international student wh …

How do I start writing a college essay and what about?

So I submitted two essays on here and time is running out, what happens if no one reviews them within 12 hours?

The research topic has to do with medicine but I haven’t done research on it. I am interested in the topic though since I am planning to enter the pharmaceutical field.

I’m curious as to how exactly the “Additional Info. Section” of the common app essays can be used to “your advantage” as several websites and forums I’ve encountered have suggested that it can. Rather …

I wrote one essay that my Chinese counselor thought it was not so good, but my other counselor, a British, thinks it's good enough. I personally felt unsatisfied about both of their opinions or editi …

So in an essay for a competitive award that I wrote I mentioned being part of a specific ethnic group. As in “as a member of an ethnic group that was...”. Do I need to mention the specific ethnic grou …

Hi, I'm a senior who is really interested in applying to schools out of my home state, but I'm having trouble answering the short responses. I'm currently stuck on the short answer section for all my …

I'm really struggling with showing and not telling, so how you anyone suggest incorporating it into my essays? Using imagery is not my strong suit especially since what I write about are overall exper …

I used my common app essay to talk about my academic interests and why I'm passionate about them, but now things are a little tricky for me. A few of the supplements I have to write ask me why I'm int …

If I am writing an essay that has a max word count of 250 words but my ideal finished essay is 254 words long do I need to cut words or is there a window of tolerance?

Edit: It’s not for CommonApp and …

Hi everyone! Recently on my dashboard, I saw that an essay I sent for review was rated in the top 16% for the reviewer. What exactly does this mean? I don't see a feature to rate essays when I'm revie …

Hey I'm new to Collegevine. For the college essay reviews, we get 10 extra karma if we get a 5-star rating. So how soon do we know if the person rated it five stars?

I am applying to Avery prestigious and selective award and it asks me and I quote “Which extracurricular commitment is most important to you and why?”.

The award is for community involvement and I’d e …

I was on the collegeessayguy website and it is a website that helps you with college essays. For the Why Cornell essay, they gave an example of student who wrote their why Cornell essay in the form of …

If I write about taking a certain course, joining an activity, or pursuing a certain major etc., am I obliged to actually fulfill those things? Though I'm interested now and writing about them in my s …

I was curious to know if the standard "short and concise introduction/conclusion, three body paragraphs" formatting of lit essays is expected in the common app essay? I've gotten mixed reviews on my e …

So I was planning on writing a few college essays earlier on (11th grade) but I’m not sure if the college essays are the same or if they will change each year. Also, when do people usually write colle …

Some of these supplemental prompts seem like traps intended to encourage repetition.

Right now I'm working on Pomona's application, which has three culture & diversity prompts. I'm not applying to Bro …

Hi! I am senior in high school and this is one of the short answer question I have received. Can someone help me to write this? I have no idea how to tackle this question with this short word limit :3 …