Do supplemental essay prompts change every year?

College Essays
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I am a rising senior looking to get a head start on my college applications.
If you know whether or not any of the following schools change their prompts every year, please let me know :slight_smile:

  • Brown
  • Dartmouth
  • Rice
  • Vanderbilt
  • UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC San Diego
  • Pomona
  • Claremont McKenna
  • Emory
  • Auburn
  • Baylor
  • University of Washington
  • George Mason University
  • George Washington University

Thank you

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Some do, some don’t. The common app usually stays the same several years in a row. Prompts should be available for all of those colleges (at least in an ordinary year they would be up by now). Keep checking their websites.

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Any of those colleges can change prompts yearly. If you set up your common app account, for the colleges that use it, you will see the various college-specific prompts apart from the personal statement. Or you can look at each college’s individual application to see what their supplemental prompts are.

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To be safe, assume that they change. I’m in the same position as you, but I don’t want to take the chance the prompts might change, especially with COVID and the George Floyd protests, which might cause there to be some new prompts.