importance of common app essay?

<p>How important is the common application essay? Relative to the other essays?</p>

<p>like compared to why swat essay? probably more important, but why swat is still really important because it says why they should accept you to swat</p>

<p>I think that the Why Swat essay is more important.
It has more meaning to Swarthmore than your common app essay.</p>