Other schools allow for a little more creativity in how the supplemental essay questions are answered. Babson College in Massachusetts, for example, gives students a 500-word limit to answer a ...

so you may want to avoid mentioning that in your ‘Why ‘X’ school’ supplemental essay. “I think a big risk is a boring essay,” says college counselor Stacy C. Hernandez, who owns ...

I realized that my supplemental essays were emblematic of what I wanted out of life and my college experience. For example, ...

(Many thanks to Candice Eisenhauer, Director of Health Professions Advising at Wheaton College, for her valuable contributions to this section!) Applicants to MD and DO programs: You can get started ...

founder of the College Essay Guy, a website that offers free and paid essay-writing resources. College essays and letters of recommendation, Sawyer says, are likely to carry more weight than ever ...