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Examining the questions is a major key into figuring out what admissions officers really want. Last week we took a look at one of the Common App essay topics: Evaluate a significant experience, ...

Early this February the Common Application concluded a survey measuring feedback on the Common Application main essay prompts across a sample of 5,000, half of whom were students. According to Scott ...

There is a certain uneasy pleasure to be taken, if one has had some argument with the Common Application, in the awareness that the current misfirings of the new version of the application has caused ...