<p>If the Supplementary essays are always the same for the Common App, does anyone know when the new application comes out?</p>
<p>No, they change the supplementary essays, at least for one or more of the essays. Class of 2014 had to compose a short poem for one of the short answers. Class of 2015 had no poems assigned. I think you are referring to the short answers for NYU, unless there is a supplementary essay to the main essay (don’t remember sonny having a second essay for the common app in applying to the class of 2014).</p>
<p>Also, not sure when new Common App comes out but sometime in June or July? Can’t quite remember the month when people here reported seeing Common App last year.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses evolving</p>
<p>I think the common app came out around late July/August. I think the first question is always the same, which in short is, “Why NYU?”</p>
<p>I was talking with an adcom on College Confidential, and he made a good point: those questions are basically testing your craftiness. Because the character limits are absolutely ridiculous! For example:</p>
<p>Please tell us what led you to select both your anticipated academic area(s) of study and the NYU school / college / program or the Abu Dhabi campus. What interests you most about your intended discipline? Mention any extracurricular or non-school-related activities or experiences that demonstrate your interest.</p>
<p>That one paragraph basically contains three questions - and each of them is complex. It’s hard enough to describe the relationship between college choice and academic interest(s), but to throw extracurriculars in there as well?</p>
<p>Anyway, I thought I would just point that out. It’s interesting to keep in mind. It seems like NYU is testing how students adapt to ridiculous limits. </p>
<p>If anyone is curious to see my answer (since I was accepted), here it is:</p>
<p>Passive observation is no longer an option: my vision of the world demands of me replication. Like all arts, cinema can explore the world both visually and thematically, but the connection of image to time is unique in film. Plus, its history is young, its future unpredictable. No other art is this thrilling. Thus, I worked my way up to videoing for the Arts Club and college events. Yet, I need not abandon my noted fervor for philosophy; instead, I can embrace it as unique to my filmic approach.</p>
<p>More or less, I could only devote a sentence or two to each part of the question. It took numerous edits to convey the right meaning but to also stay under the word limit - a lot of it comes down to cutting out unnecessary words, using shorter words in places, adjusting punctuation, and so on.</p>
<p>In a sense, the trick is to find the “heart” of the question and to try to answer it as briefly but confidently and intelligently as possible.</p>