Topic: Describe a significant experience or achievement that has special meaning to you.
Sample: An old bike rack used to reside beside a secluded side entrance of the library a few blocks away from my house |
| Carnegie Mellon University 2010 unverified; University of Rochester 2010 unverified; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: 'Describe a significant experience or achievement that has special meaning to you.'
Sample: An old bike rack used to reside beside a secluded side entrance of the library a few blocks away from my house |
| Rochester Institute of Technology 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: an important experience and how does it shape your life?
Sample: In ninth grade I was a child. In my three-and-a-half years of high school, I have developed and matured into an adult. |
| Vassar College 2010 unverified; Barnard College 2010 unverified; New York University 2010 unverified; Cornell University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: common application topic of my choice. what I learned about substance in writing and what I want to learn in college
Sample: It took me a few years to learn that just because something is elaborately dressed does not mean that it is an adequate work. |
| Grinnell College 2010 unverified; Macalester College 2010 unverified; Carleton College 2010 unverified; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: optional additional essay on art and its role in my life
Sample: I went to art class when I was six, and that’s where my love for art began |
| Brown University 2010 unverified; Vanderbilt University 2010 unverified; Wesleyan University 2010 unverified; Wellesley College 2010 unverified; Bryn Mawr College 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence. (from the common app)
Sample: I always remembered to look, every time we visited his house, for the green war helmet shell... |
| Wellesley College 2010 unverified; Wesleyan University 2010 unverified; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2010 unverified; Vanderbilt University 2010 unverified; Brown University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Common Application essay: open-ended.
Evaluation of my motivation and ideals in the context of a personal response to a trip to Paris.
Sample: ...On what seemed like the top of the world overlooking the wide expanse of civilization, I imagined the Eiffel Tower as... |
| Harvard University 2010 unverified; Princeton University 2010 unverified; Dartmouth College 2010 unverified; Washington University in St Louis 2010 unverified; Williams College 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Common application essay. Topic of my choice: who I am.
Sample: I always find myself a little at a loss for words when people ask me what kind of person I am. |
| New York University 2010 unverified; College of William and Mary 2010 unverified; Rice University 2010 unverified; University of Notre Dame 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. (Common Ap)
Sample: I have found that swimming in the morning wakes me up and sets the foundation for my day. |
| Vanderbilt University 2010 unverified; University of Virginia-Main Campus 2010 unverified; Bucknell University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Passion and an important event
Sample: The school headmaster announces my name in concordance with the words “winner of the school Idol,” and steps aside ... |
| Northwestern University 2010 unverified; Johns Hopkins University 2010 verified; Georgetown University 2010 verified; University of Pennsylvania 2010 verified; Harvard University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Passion and an important event
Sample: The school headmaster announces my name in concordance with the words “winner of the school Idol,”... |
| Princeton University 2010 unverified; Stanford University 2010 unverified; Columbia University 2010 unverified; University of California-Berkeley 2010 verified |
long essay |
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Topic: passions
Sample: I wrote my first story when I was in first grade. It was about Racer the raccoon who desperately ... |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus 2010 unverified; Northwestern University 2010 unverified; Tufts University 2010 unverified; Yale University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Describe a hobby or a passion
Sample: ...Is it worth it?—is a question that my peers ask often. All this work, all those private lessons ... |
| Swarthmore College 2010 unverified; University of Chicago 2010 unverified; Cornell University 2010 unverified; Brown University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Influential Person - Describe a person that has influenced you
Sample: ...I want to address some of the most important lessons I learned from her about the world and about myself... |
| Vanderbilt University 2010 unverified; Northeastern University 2010 verified; University of Richmond 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: What do you plan on doing with your life?
Sample: A native of Romania, I immigrated to America five years ago, teeming with dreams and aspirations... |
| Amherst College 2010 verified; Swarthmore College 2010 unverified; Tufts University 2010 unverified; Boston College 2010 verified; Dartmouth College 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Why do people insist on telling white lies?
Sample: ...what it boils down to is that nobody wants to be the one who lets their friend in on the ugly truth. |
| Tufts University 2010 unverified; Emory University 2010 unverified; College of William and Mary 2010 unverified; University of Virginia-Main Campus 2010 unverified; Wake Forest University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: This is the essay I sent in for my Common App. It is about my last name, which is rather hard to pronounce and about growing up trying to define myself. It came from the heart and wrote itself. The best essays are those that write themselves.
Sample: My name, last name to be exact, has been the source of numerous jokes, misunderstandings, or just plain surprise. |
| University of Puget Sound 2010 unverified; Occidental College 2010 unverified; Case Western Reserve University 2010 unverified; Emory University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: One of the most influential events in your life.
Conman App question #1
Sample: Every boy wants to grow up to be like his father, that infallible man who seems more akin to a god. |
| University of Miami 2010 unverified; University of Maryland-College Park 2010 unverified; Case Western Reserve University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: One of the most influential events in your life.
Conman App question #1
Sample: Every boy wants to grow up to be like his father, that infallible man who seems more akin to a god. |
| University of Miami 2010 unverified; University of Maryland-College Park 2010 unverified; Case Western Reserve University 2010 unverified |
long essay |
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Topic: Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate--and us--know you better.
Sample: Putting my hands behind my head, I lean back on my chair away from my desk and the paper. |
| Stanford University 2010 verified |
short essay |
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