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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my.  Parent of a junior.  I'm assuming those who are applying to 15+ schools are applying to many that have a common application.  Cannot imagine writing supplemental essays for 15 schools?

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This was probably the biggest surprise for me -- naively, I thought Common App meant just one essay. So far, DD has applied to 6 schools, one ED, 5 EA/rolling. She has written:

1 personal statement (650 words)
1 long supplemental essay (650 words) that she adapted for another supplemental essay (500 words)
7 short supplemental essays (150-250 words)
1 honors college essay (250 words, used for 2 different schools' honors programs)

Depending on how ED goes, she has one more honors college essay (another 500 words) to write for this group of apps. And then if things don't go well with this round, she's looking at several more essays for the next round. It is a LOT. People will say that you can adapt essays for multiple schools, but she did not find that to be true for the most part, as you can see above. Some of the prompts are more general, like the Common App personal statement, but the supplemental essays tended to be pretty specific to each school.

Have your child start working on essays over the summer. DD had her personal statement and most of the long supplemental essay done by the time school started and that helped ease the stress so much. [/quote]

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