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You should aim to submit each and every college application on your list at least a week before its actual deadline. Keep reading to discover the three reasons why the experts at College Essay Advisors think submitting early is always a good idea!
What’s the hold up!?
The Common Application announced their college application essay prompts for next year. The big news is that the essay prompts and word length will remain the same! You will select one prompt for your essay and you have up to 650 words (usually equals one page). Plan on writing your Common Application essay over the summer, ideally in June and July, so you can dedicate August to college essay supplements, which are the additional essays each individual college may require you to write. Writing essays over the summer will absolutely make for a less stressful senior year. Trust me, ask any current high school senior who applied to colleges this year. They will tell you to WRITE ESSAYS OVER THE SUMMER.
Check out the college essay prompts below. I receive this information directly from the Common Application.
Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, please share your story.
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma — anything of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.
Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you’ve already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.
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The second essay prompt of the 2018-19 Common Application (full text below) asks you to talk about how you approach challenges, obstacles, and even (gasp) fa...
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Which prompt will you choose?
Common Application Essay
In honor of finally being done with applications (I think I might cry) I'm going to post my common app essay. I feel like this essay really truly expresses me and I don't know if anyone will read it but it's definitely something that I want to look back on and be proud of. Braces, strawberry lip gloss, and my B-cup bra didn’t follow me to high school. However, my punk band did. Layered in different shades of black, I stomped through the hallway with a sense of intensity that was cancelled out by my gregarious nature. Stares would transpire, but my reply that I was in an all girl punk band seemed to help people decipher my outward appearance. Instead of putting on makeup to play up my features, I stepped into an alternative persona, an enhanced version of myself, who was unafraid of the world and impenetrable to embarrassment. Of course, fried bleach blonde hair and tall black combat boots generated glares, but I didn’t care because looking different and being different was me. Stepping onto a stage with my luminescent white Gibson was a dream I never wanted to end. Hearing others sing the words I wrote, and strumming an air guitar to the composition I constructed, was a feeling unparalleled. All stage fright I possessed would remove itself from my body, and I’d be left with the feeling of weightlessness. Being in a band was like having a separate family, and shows were family reunions full of diverse artists. The solo act with his acoustic guitar would talk about his new puppy, while the four-piece alternative band would whine about their van breaking down on the way to the show. These musicians greeted me with complete honesty and love because music was an escape from the adversity we all faced in life. I didn’t haphazardly decide to join a band. I joined because of the death of my grandpa, the trips I took to the mental hospital to visit my suicidal friend, and the relentless pressure I felt from my parents to get grades they would find satisfactory. Music and my band became the outlet to eject all pernicious thoughts from my body through ripped fishnets, distorted lyrics, and muffled amps. Although the benefits of being in a band were immense, it also led to a lot of unwanted attention. Sexual comments directed towards my young adolescent band sometimes outweighed the compliments of our music, and I worried that we were only being perceived as glitzy, sexed up objects. With my juvenile, naive cognizance of the world, I felt misunderstood and corrupted. Being taken advantage of wasn’t an option for me though; punk rock is about resilience and empowerment. Being a girl doesn’t define my music, but being a woman who can take a beating and get up twice as strong is definitely something to respect. Eventually, I parted ways with my band because we disagreed on future visions for our lives. After weeks of tirelessly thinking about my impending decision, I finally opted to pursue rigorous coursework over band practice. I don’t regret my choice, nor my involvement with my garage band for five years. The lessons other musicians taught me, both musically and about life in general, made the escapade completely worthwhile. Although that period of my life is over, I still see remnants of those years in the blue hair dye that has permanently attached itself to my white porcelain sink, my forever calloused fingers, and the old local band tees stacked away in my closet. I don't need unconventional hair nor do I need my face caked with crusty, $3 black liner to still see myself as the inner punk who walks with purpose and resonates strength and self-assurance.
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