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I'm applying to the Honors College at the University of Missouri, and one of the requirements is submitting an additional essay. One of the essay options states: "If you feel that an essa …

So I am applying for the University of Oregon Robert D. honors college. The application for the honors college and university of Oregon are all together but to apply to the honors college you need to …

i have some questions about the sat essay and TOEFL essay and university essays

can I choose an essay by my own self to write it on my sat and TOEFL and other examination? or I have to write a differe …

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I am applying to Williams College and they have an optional supplemental essay where I can submit a 3-5 page academic paper. I am debating on submitting the supplemental, because I do not think an …

Ok, so I think I have a good topic for my college essay but I need some opinions because I am having second thoughts.

So, to start off, I am famous online for playing video games. Over the past 2 years …

I'm beginning to write my personal application essay and in doing so I've realized that while I have a strong, unique essay theme/topic, I am struggling to express this idea in a way that's unique (an …

I'm approaching the final revisions of my Common App Essay, and I've realized that my essay sorta fits some of the prompts, but I didn't write it specifically for those prompts so nothing is specifica …

I don't want to sound crazy. I don't want to sound like someone who doesn't have anything to write and so then writes about a random hobby.

I want to sound genuine. I want to be unique in my writing. …

Hi, I have taken the SAT a few times. The first was in Nov 2019 as a benchmark. I did not do that well on the test but scored a 19 on the essay. When I took the SAT again, I did much better on the act …

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I'm considering writing my college essay as a montage essay that explores different times and aspects of my life and connects them to my values using my YouTube subscriptions as a thematic …

I am writing a college essay about a wonderful elderly woman I met and I'm not sure if I can use her name in my college essay? I'm not too worried about using her first name, Betty, but her last name …

Hello! Rising senior here, trying to narrow down a topic for my Common App essay. I am currently debating between two topics for the essay and could use some feedback. The first essay topic is about h …

Hello, I am applying to colleges on the CommonApp and I recently started my essay. My essay includes talking about how another college sent me an email about joining a stock market challenge hosted by …

My common app essay is about my first-hand experience of witnessing poverty in India on a trip I took with my family three years ago (not a community service or mission trip; just a regular visit to s …

I was filling out the ApplyTexas application for the University of Houston, but when I went to paste my essay, it only had the option for prompt C. I wrote my essay using prompt A. Does University of …

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I am a rising senior who wants to know whether I have chosen a good CommonApp essay topic and which prompt the essay fits into if it is good.

I am planning to write about how I make people feel c …

i am very interested in astrology. i heard that your essay should be so specific to you that if a teacher was holding a stack of essays with your essay in it, your best friend or someone close to you …

I am a rising senior writing my college essays. One of my essay topics for the UC application is "What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?" I am writing about how I vol …

I recently submitted an essay for a college summer reading essay competition. Typically after I finish writing an essay, I run it through Grammarly. I did the same with this essay, however, after I su …

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