Why Do So Many Strong Liberal Arts Colleges Not Have Supplemental Essays?

[Anonymous]

To make it very easy to apply and inflate their application numbers, thus reducing acceptance rate. Colby is notorious. Not only no supplemental essay but no application fee as well.

[Anonymous]

Middlebury, for one, endeavors to offer an alumni interview to each applicant. The interviewer then submits a detailed report to the admissions office. IMHO, this gives you a lot more info than a supplemental essay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of them ask for essays later, once your kid submits the Common App. It’s “fun,” they think they’re done and then they a request to log into the school’s website and do more work.

+1 It has been a few years but DS had supps at Hamilton.