The Common App Essay Puzzle
How to Find the Story Only You Can Tell Six hundred and fifty words. That is all. It sounds manageable until a student opens a blank document, watches the cursor blink, and realizes those words may be read by nearly every college on their list. Then 650 words begin to feel enormous. Students start asking […]
The Common App Essay: What Officers Actually Read
An admissions officer gives your essay six to eight minutes. They are reading it after forty others, late in the afternoon, with a stack still to go. Everything below follows from that one fact. Introduction The Common App essay gives students an opportunity to share something that grades, test scores, and activity lists cannot fully […]