Harvard Supplement Essay: the same every year?

Applying to College
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<p>I need to start writing the essay for Harvard's supplement sometime before August. Because the prompt says "Possible Topics" above the 5 prompts that they give (check it out:
<a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvar...ement_1011.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.college.harvar...ement_1011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) does that mean that we could potentially write about something else?</p>

<p>If not, are these prompts usually the same? They seem pretty basic. Is it probable that I can go ahead and write on one of these topics (like the one about a travel experience) and it will still be applicable come August when the updated application comes out?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>harvard pretty much does an “open topic” option, so it really doesn’t matter the topics, you can basically write whatever you want. The supplement essay is also optional.</p>

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<p>Alyssaz is correct. Harvard generally has a “write anything” topic and is optional.</p>