Realizing that the supplemental essays are, well, still essays that require outlining, planning, and editing, some students can freeze up. Now, as the interview continues, and the questions become things like, “Why would you like to attend our school?” and “What’s your favorite snack?” and “Can you elaborate more on your favorite extracurricular?” you don’t want to kick off your shoes, slouch in your chair, and develop a sudden drawl as you respond to your interviewer. Your Common App essay is the initial answer you get to give the interviewer when they say, “Tell me about yourself.” You deliver that with excellent posture and careful word choice. Let’s replace the “essay question” and “short answer” analogy we hear from students a lot with an interview analogy. They are looking for more details that confirm and expand what they know about you, and which neither contradict nor repeat what they’ve already learned from your personal statement. While it’s true that your personal statement almost always allows you the most space to share an aspect of who you are, it’s important that you treat your supplementals with the same rigor.Īdmissions committees use your secondary essays to augment the story they have assembled about you as a candidate from your Common App essay and your recommendations. Some students think they should treat their personal statement as the main “essay question” on the test and consider the supplemental essays as “short answer” questions. In addition, the essay lengths will vary from school to school and from prompt to prompt, ranging in length from 25 characters to 650 or more words. Whereas some universities will require you to complete one additional essay, other schools will ask you to complete multiple essays. Now it’s time to address the various supplemental or secondary essays that schools like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and many others will ask you to write. In that case, major congratulations are in order! If you’re reading this article, you’ve probably finished the most challenging part of your college application process, the Common App essay, i.e.
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