<p>Since they still require you to write their essay in the supplement, do they still look at the commonapp essay if you use the commonapp?</p>
<p>Yes............</p>
<p>How come when using the rice application you only have to write one essay and when using the common app for rice you have to write two essays. Its not fair.</p>
<p>The second essay is really short about an ec, work experince etc...the main essay is the most important.</p>
<p>It's not fair? You have the option to use the Rice application if you so desire.</p>
<p>I really hope you guys are right because the commonapp essay is the one I worked hard on. I still dont even know what im gonna right about in Rice essay. Any advice?</p>
<p>Is the common app supplement essay the one about what life experience/culture we bring to Rice?</p>
<p>yes it is.....</p>
<p>OP... if they didnt care about it, why would the make you write it?</p>
<p>Especially since the supplement essay is really short and easy...</p>
<p>but the supplemental essay isnt necessarily short and easy, is it?....</p>
<p>In my opinion they are both very important.</p>
<p>Short essays shouldn't be easy. Their length limits encourage one to economize every word.</p>
<p>agreed w/jakpot, those were toughest for me since i had to be concise, but precise</p>
<p>I didnt mean Short meaning easy
I found this particular prompt to be easy for me...</p>