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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting - I guess I’m the outlier here or maybe it’s the schools she’s applied to but the supplemental have been by far the most time consuming - they were all super specific so it wasn’t like she could re-use much from school to school. She ED’d and will likely get deferred or rejected so EA’d at the same time to a number of schools that she’d be really excited about. [/quote]

The supplementals are absolutely more time consuming - or at least should be. In order to write a strong one, you usually need to do quite a bit of research about each school, tailor the essays, and often just write wholly new material. Even if it is the Why Major, you must have enough Why Us in there for it to work. People agonize over the personal statement, but they often overthink it. It can be about anything - the trick is finding the story/theme that allows for genuine self reflection. But once it's done, it's done and you can send it to every single school. The personal statement is about something you are an expert on - yourself, your feelings, your experiences, your growth, your hopes for the future. You can learn a great deal about yourself by writing it.[/quote]

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