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Find out the seven essay prompts for the Common App, a platform for applying to multiple colleges. Learn how to write your personal story, reflect on challenges, and share your passions.
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- What Is The Common Application Essay?
- Prompt 1: Background, Identity, Interest, Or Talent
- Prompt 2: Overcoming Challenges
- Prompt 3: Questioning A Belief Or Idea
- Prompt 4: Appreciating An Influential Person
- Prompt 5: Transformative Event
- Prompt 6: Interest Or Hobby That Inspires Learning
- Prompt 7: Free Topic
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The Common Application, or Common App, is a college application portal that is accepted by more than 900 schools. Within the Common App is your main essay, a primary writing sample that all your prospective schools will read to evaluate your critical thinking skills and value as a student. Since this essay is read by many colleges, avoid mentioning...
This essay explores the student’s emotional journey toward overcoming her father’s neglect through gymnastics discipline.
This essay shows how the challenges the student faced in caring for her sister with autism resulted in an unexpected path forward in her education.
This essay illustrates a student’s courage in challenging his culture’s constructs of manhood and changing his course while positively affecting his father in the process.
The student demonstrates how his teacher giving him an unexpected bad grade was the catalyst for his becoming a better writer.
This student narrates how she initially went to church for a boy but instead ended up confronting her selfishness by helping others.
This essay shows how a student’s natural affinity for solving a Rubik’s cube developed her self-understanding, academic achievement, and inspiration for her future career.
In this free topic essay, the student uses a montage structure inspired by the TV show Iron Chef Americato demonstrate his best leadership moments.
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Learn how to write a compelling Common App essay with seven examples that respond to different prompts. See how to showcase your background, identity, interest, talent, challenges, and more.
24 de fev. de 2023 · Learn about the seven essay prompts that will remain the same for the upcoming application year. Find out how to approach the essay, watch a video breakdown, and create your account before August 1.
23 de mar. de 2023 · Learn how to write a strong Common App essay with these 21 examples and tips. See how students share their personal stories, challenges, passions, and achievements in response to different prompts.
18 de mar. de 2023 · Learn how to write a stand-out Common App essay with 25 outstanding examples from admitted students. See how they used different topics, prompts, and writing styles to showcase their background, identity, interest, or talent.
5 de mar. de 2024 · The Common App essay exists so you can tell admissions officers information they can’t find anywhere else in your application. Think of it like a poetic introduction to who you are. Because you only have 650 words to make your impression, your essay should get straight to it.
3 de abr. de 2024 · How to Write an Amazing Common App Essay (2024–2025) — Examples Included. Learn how to come up with a unique topic and choose the right Common App Essay prompt to write a strong personal statement and get into your dream college. Plus, a full-length Common App Essay example.
