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...in their Application Essays

The folks at the Common Application released their long-awaited essay prompts for 2013 – 2014 last week, the arrival of which had long been a cause of trepidation for counselors and high school teachers because it’s the first year that the site has omitted the option for students to select a topic of their choice.  It’s also the first time that they’ve strictly limited the word amount to no more than 650 words and disallowed the uploading of Word document essay files (meaning that students must copy and paste their essays directly into the Common Application essay space).

The fears held by guidance counselors, high school teachers, and independent consultants (like myself) about these changes were based mainly in making sure that our students were still able to best express their own individuality and inner selves in order to demonstrate their admissability to enrollment committees.  We worried that locking students into a prescribed set of topics would stifle their creativity and that using the application’s essay space would prohibit them from demonstrating essays of unique structure and flow.

Though it’s early in the process and juniors are only just beginning to think about what they will write in their application essays, it seems for the moment that our fears were unfounded.  Read More