<p>Will the essays for the 07-08 admission cycle be the same as last years?</p>
<p>I can confirm that the essays for the 07-08 admissions cycle will be different. Unfortunately I am not able to release the new topics yet as our application has not yet gone to print. When the application is finalized I will post the new questions and the new essays policies to the Hopkins Insider blog.</p>
<p>The application for the 07-08 admissions cycle (and the JHU supplement for the Common Application) will be available in August.</p>
<p>thanks for the information!!</p>
<p>I hope the $10 essay doesn't go away.</p>
<p>Actually the $10 essay went away last year -- we removed the $10 stipulation and replaced it with the "money in your pocket" phrase. Many on the staff still called it the $10 essay because the general essay prompt was the same and it sounded a lot better than the money in your pocket essay.</p>
<p>I can say from what I have heard the new essay prompt is much different ... so no more $10 essay.</p>
<p>Wait, I'm curious. What was the $10 essay?</p>
<p>When I applied (2+years ago), the essay was something along the lines of "If you had only $10 to plan a day's adventure, where would you go, what would you do, and who would you take with you?"</p>
<p>I hated the $10 essay and I almost didn't apply this year because the essay irked me. But I wrote a weird essay about flying to Isaac Newton's tomb in England (yes, I am a physics geek).</p>
<p>$10 essay was great though. It was the one college essay you had to think about and take your time writing. You couldn't just recycle the one standard essay with a few modifications that you sent to all the other schools.</p>
<p>Yes...that essay was probably the one I had to think about the most before writing. But it turned out to be my favorite one =)</p>
<p>It's a shame they're getting rid of it.</p>
<p>OK two years ago the essay prompt was:
"If you had only $10 to plan a day's adventure, where would you go, what would you do, and who would you take with you?"</p>
<p>Last year the essay prompt was changed to:
"If you had a full day with no commitments, no homework, no home responsibilities, and only the money in your pocket, what would you do? Where would you go? Whom would you take with you?"</p>
<p>Personally, and I think my colleagues would agree, we favored their essays because they encouraged applicants to be original and to be creative. However, a change was needed. </p>
<p>You need to see it from our perspective ... After four years of reading the same essays there is no longer the same buzz of originality. The applications readers need a change of pace. The new essay though I suspect will continue to provide the applicant the chance to be original and be creative.</p>
<p>The money in the pocket essay sucked. The $10 prompt seems much easier.</p>
<p>I hope the new question will be just as interesting... I strongly believe that my money in the pocket "essay" was the only reason I was accepted to BME, since I didn't really have any other distinguishing characteristics, and that was the best thing I turned in to any college.</p>
<p>Thank god..I despised the $10 essay. I was not looking forward to that at all! So no money in your pocket/$10 variation at all?</p>
<p>As I said above...</p>
<p>"I can say from what I have heard the new essay prompt is much different ... so no more $10 essay."</p>
<p>No more $10 essay, no more money in the pocket, and no more variation on the theme.</p>