elite colleges with no supplemental essays?
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Anonymous
| i told my DC they don’t exist lol.. |
Anonymous
| and conversely, which colleges have the most supplemental essays.. |
Anonymous
| clemson |
Anonymous
| Middlebury |
Anonymous
| Since my kid doubted her chances a couple of years ago, she tried to limit her applications to colleges that required less writing. Most of the Ivies and Stanford have quite a few, but she applied to Cornell and only had to write one specifically for CALS and Northwestern only had a short "Why Northwestern?" essay back then. Several of LACs like Wesleyan, Carleton, Middlebury, Bowdoin (might've been 1-2 essays), Grinnell (optional "why Grinnell"), Oberlin, Swarthmore (1), Macalester (1-2?), Kenyon, etc. had very little additional writing required other than the Common App essay. I think Emory and Duke had 2-3 essays (some optional). |
Anonymous
| Nor sure if this is elite (some people think it is), but Northeastern did not have supplemental essays last year. |
Anonymous
| W&M Has an “optional” supplemental essay (that is not optional). But there is no assigned topic. Your kid can submit an essay on anything. |
Anonymous
| Pitt |
Anonymous
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Northeastern and Case Western both ranked at #44 by USN&WR are the closest to elite or elites without supplemental essay.
I believe there are a couple of high ranked LACs without supplemens too. Purpose of supplemental essay is to admit highly-qualified students that are right fit to the schools. Northeastern is like T10 in retention rate meaning they select highly-qualified right fit students for the school even without asking the annoying extra questions. Schools should have plenty of information already. |
Anonymous
| Harvard essay is optional |
Anonymous
| My DS applied to Wake Forest years ago. At the time, they had at least 8 mini additional essays. Not sure if it’s still the same currently. |
Anonymous
| I believe Norhtwestern only has a very short “why Northwestern” essay (in addition to the Common App essay). |
Anonymous
Pitt is not an elite school. |
Anonymous
| i think oberlin has no additional essays. |
Anonymous
So it might be optional but any time something is optional, you should do it. |