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Category: Ivy League Application Essays
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Ivy League Breaking News: Cornell’s 2021 Application essays are up and ready to write as of June, 2020. To write a successful Cornell University application essay in 2020-2021, you need to show that you know your area of interest at Cornell. Here’s how. The Cornell University application essay is particularly demanding in its focus on…
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The Common Application Prompts for 2019-2020 appear under the theme “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Yes, that’s right, the Common App folks are not changing their prompts this year. That does not mean, however, that it is a good idea to copy verbatim ideas in your older sibling/friend/ghost writer’s old essays, much less…
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Back in Blue (and Red): The U Penn prompts are out. Of all the Ivy League applications, UPenn has the most elaborate contextualizing, and their prompts explicitly demand a level of research and personal introspection that is unique, even in the Ivy League. Yes, Cornell asks you to explore your major and puts up an…
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Hello–As an FYI, Harvard has not posted its prompts for this year, as of this writing (July 13th). This post is for the class of 2021; if you are applying this year, you will be entering school (barring a gap or spring enrollment) in the fall of 2018, making you the class of 2022. It…
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Or to the past, because Harvard’s prompts are a blast from the past, especially if the past is the old Common Application Prompts. The prompts that Harvard has up this year are a mix of old Harvard prompts and the prompts that your older friends or siblings wrote for the Common Application if they applied…
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