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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A distortion but not a myth. Supplemental essays are lot easier than a hodgepodge of separate applications.[/quote]

Disagree.  My DC applied to Georgetown which is not on the common app.  The G'town main application took 10-15 minutes.  Supplemental essays on all the apps took about a day each with the creating, writing and editing process.  [/quote]

Did each supplemental essay take a day? If so, that's a lot of work. My son applied to 10 schools and some schools had 3 supplemental essays.[/quote]

Not a full 24 hour day obviously, but realistically couldn't get through more than one app every day or two with sports and homework commitments on weekends/holidays.  Supplemental essays ranged from 1-7 per app.  Very little overlap in the questions so each one required real work.  Even the ones about "why school x" were narrowly phrased so they really needed to be researched and customized for the school.

DC got 3 done before Nov 1 deadlines, another 2-3 before xmas break, and the rest (another 5-6) during break.[/quote]

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