If you’re a senior in high school applying to college – or live in a household where someone else is – this coming week may be the most stressful of the process to date. This is the infamous “mid-December” when tens of thousands of students will hear from first-choice colleges and universities about EARLY DECISION Continue Reading »
Beware, college applicants and parents! As you scour the Common Application for required and optional essays before filling out the application, be sure you’re looking in all the right places. I believe that the college’s sprinkle the writing requirements into the application as though you will just come to them as you’re filling out the Continue Reading »
UPDATE! The 2022-23 U Chicago essay prompts are out! Click right here to read about them. The following post is from two years ago, but the University of Chicago is so unconventional that you can use a prompt from any year if you wish. Read on and use your imagination: “You’re on a voyage in Continue Reading »
I’ve been checking the University of Chicago’s website for weeks, hoping they’ve posted this coming fall’s new supplemental essay prompts – because UC’s are always the most cerebral, the most philosophical, oftentimes, the most demanding. Well, no essay prompts for this year yet, but today the University made headline news around the country for another Continue Reading »
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