Help..Anything wrong with my eyes or with the commonapp??

Transfer Students
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<p>I was just about to submit my commonapp transfer essay and suddently found a striking difference between the essay question I saw on the website and the essay questions I saw in "WORD" when I pasted exactly the same questions down from the website.
On the website, I only see:</p>

<p>Please provide a statement (250 words minimum) that addresses your reasons for transferring and the objectives you hope to achieve.
Your essay will appear on a separate sheet at the end of the application.</p>

<p>BUT after I pasted it into WORD, it shows six more topics which is the same as the commonapp essay for freshman!!And the following is how the same question on the website looked like in the WORD format:</p>

<p>Please provide a statement (250 words minimum) that addresses your reasons for transferring and the objectives you hope to achieve.
Your essay will appear on a separate sheet at the end of the application.</p>

<p>!!!Please indicate your topic by checking the appropriate button below.
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
Topic of your choice.!!</p>

<p>What on earth is the topic for commonapp transfer essays..I am going crazy abt that since my deadline is really coming close..</p>

<p>What did you guys see on the commonapp? Did anyone who has the same problem as I do?</p>

<p>Please help me. Which essay question should I stick to? Thank you!!</p>

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<p>i would just answer the 250 word min. essay about your reasons for wanting to transfer. that's the question on my common app page. Besides, it wouldn't make much sense to answer any of the other questions when you are transferring and one of them asks why...</p>

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<p>Same thing happened here, so I just wrote a new one.</p>

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<p>That's quite odd. I just answered the prompt I saw, which was the 250 minimum why transfer essay.</p>

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<p>When I wrote my transfer essays, the prompt was "Please provide a statement (250 words minimum) that addresses your reasons for transferring and the objectives you hope to achieve."</p>

<p>I would go with that.</p>

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<p>Thank you guys.</p>

<p>To MLEVINE07,
so is your new written essay according to the new promps that you saw on the websites? So you combined a why transfer essay with the six additional promps? I tried but I found it weird and hard to combine these promps..</p>

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<p>I know that this thread is really old, but I'm also curious about the same situation? Should I answer the Why Transfer essay or choose one of the options that appear when you copy and paste the transfer application into Word?
Thanks</p>

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<p>It's probably just an issue with the way they wrote their code for the website. Write about the one that displays when you actually view the webpage.</p>