Colleges with no supplement essays

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>OK. </p>

<p>An edited list of the more selective places:</p>

<p>Boston College
Dartmouth
Middlebury
Vanderbilt
College of the Holy Cross
Harvard (optional)
Duke (optional)
Wesleyan
Washington University in Saint Louis</p>

<p>Wow… someone could just apply to only these schools! They’re all good schools.</p>

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<p>Also two more less selective places… Southwestern and Hiram’s is 2-3 sent about why you want to go. I’ve heard from a few college admissions officers that if they say an essay is optional you should do it because if you don’t you’re saying you don’t really care to put the work on in.</p>

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<p>^ I second ghost’s post…</p>

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<p>Northeastern University
Fordham University
University of San Francisco (optional)</p>

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<p>When an essay is optional, does it really not affect your chances as the colleges claim if you don’t write it?</p>

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<p>The rep from Bucknell says optional on their application does not really mean optional so the answer is probably yes, it matters.</p>

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<p>If you’re applying to Wash U in St Louis for a scholarship, then you may have essays. One of their scholarships requires 4 essays (3 with no word limit and one with a 700-word limit).</p>