<p>Let's make a list of the available applications and/or due dates for the release of applications.</p>
<p>Also, if any Personal Statements are released, share those too because we all know the essays are going to take up the most time.</p>
<p>Harvard has sent out their full application for Fall 2007; I don't know of any others yet.</p>
<p>UPittsburgh up
UChicago July 18
Northwestern: Northwestern Essay Questions
Below are the four essay questions -- we call them personal statements -- that will appear on the 2007-08 freshman application. This year the Northwestern application will only be available online.
You will be asked to respond to one of the four topics with an essay of 400-500 words.
1. People tend to accept traditions blindly. Examine a commonly accepted tradition you think needs updating or changing. Why should it be changed and how would you change it?
2. We've all heard the expression, "be careful what you wish for." Relate a time when something you wished for did not turn out exactly as you expected. What were the repercussions?
3. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Whose work would you most like to continue in your lifetime and why?
4. In the film, Rashomon, four characters provide vastly different accounts of the same event. Describe a time when you viewed something differently from others. What did you learn from that experience?
Northwestern also accepts the Common Application, in both electronic and paper versions. The Common Application asks that you write an essay of 250-500 words on one of the following six topics.
1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
4. Describe a character in fiction, an historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
6. Topic of your choice.</p>
<p>I got mine from Dartmouth today.</p>
<p>apparently the Dartmouth app is out, although I have not recieved it. Georgetown is out also (i lost it, sorry!)</p>
<p>Yup; I got the Georgetown app a bit back. Didn't read it yet though.</p>
<p>anybody else with received apps or essay topics?</p>
<p>I got WUStL and Harvard. But I didn't solicit applications from either of them. I'm still waiting on the NYU ED application. :)</p>
<p>I got my Dartmouth one, but not Harvard. :(</p>
<p>I didn't solicit anything from Harvard. I also got a book from Columbia but that didn't contain an application. The Common App comes out july 1.</p>
<p>Damn, NYU isn't up yet :(</p>
<p>American University's out.</p>
<p>dartmouth=common app</p>
<p>meaning that the common app is out for 2011, just not online yet.</p>
<p>University of Chicago's essay topics are out</p>
<p>They're interesting. Really.</p>
<p>Common App is already out; I got a copy with my Harvard supplement.</p>
<p>Migrane, where'd you find UChicago's? I tried their admissions site and they just had the 05-06 essay questions. I'm not sure I'll apply, but I love their questions.</p>
<p>Why does it take longer for the online version to be out?</p>
<p>the new common app is up thru wash u's website</p>
<p>quicklikecat, uchicago's aren't out yet. they come out july 18, i believe.</p>
<p>this is an ultranoob question (but I'm still in my pre app phase) but when people say the colleges have "sent out" their applications already, do you have to first request them from the college at a certain time for them to send them to you at the same time as everyone else?</p>
<p>UChicago's essays are out though. Here:</p>
<p>schrizto-</p>
<p>Yep, you gotta request them.</p>