elite colleges with no supplemental essays?

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Anonymous wrote:In all honesty, if your kid isn’t willing to write a 250-500 word supplemental essay, they are going to hate any elite or private university. My kids are both at small top 20s and have written their asses off. My freshman has already written four 5-7 page papers for two of her classes, and several smaller writing assignments. Her other two classes are comp sci and calculus, so luckily no paper writing in those. My senior has written papers for most of her classes as an Econ major outside of math and programming classes, and will spend her last semester writing a thesis.
Large public universities with large lecture classes rarely require writing unless the student is in a writing based major. The professors just can’t read and grade hundreds of papers. Large universities love multiple choice scantron tests.

Writing based majors are usually less valueable and close to useless sometimes.

Writing-based majors are usually less valueable [sic] and close to useless sometimes.
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Lol! Also we are talking about getting in to the institution not value of a major four years later.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid will be a humanities major. She has a large load even as a senior and they are not letting up because of college apps. She will be fine writing a lot in college, but she absolutely thinks the many essays are a big lift on top of everything else.

Then maybe she should shorten her list of colleges. If these very short essays are a big lift, your DC needs to work out a better schedule for getting them done in advance. They aren't research papers nor do they go for thousands of words. If she's already a solid writer overall, these should not loom so large in her mind. Other students and parents tend to get kids wound up about application essays in ways that make kids see them as vast hurdles when they just dont have to be, not for good HS writers. If her HS has a counselor who works with kids on college applications, she should go to that person and ask what she needs to do to set a schedule to get these knocked out Some college/career centers in high school counseling offices provide space and times for students to come work on essays right there.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard essay is optional

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Nothing is really optional if you don't do it you don't get in!

-+1. If you are not worth giving it 100% it’s not worth your parents’ money to apply. Princeton used to say tge old subject matter SAT tests were optional but everyone knew that meant only for Questbridge applicants