<p>When do they come out?</p>
<p>They ARE out.</p>
<p>Where do I get them?</p>
<p>On the CommonApp website, under Writing.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why they provide us with topics when the last option is “A topic of your choice”. Doesn’t that beat the purpose of the other choices…because you can actually write about anything?</p>
<p>I guess the other topics are more of a guideline about what you should/can talk about if you really have no idea where to start.</p>
<p>But I was wondering would you get “bonus points” for doing one of their topics?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think the prompts are there to do just that - to prompt you, to show you what kind of essay you could write.</p>