Supplement Essay

Colleges and Universities A-Z St. Lawrence University
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<p>Hi,
I have a few questions on the supplement essays.</p>

<ol>
<li>Indicate how you first became interested in St. Lawrence</li>
<li>Please explain why you believe St. Lawrence is a good match for you</li>
<li>Describe how you have spent summer (or long school) vacations during the past two years.</li>
</ol>

<p>For the first and second question: How long should it be? Does ~200words sound OK? Or should I write more? Usually colleges combine both these essays and I've written ~300 words for the combined essays in most colleges.</p>

<p>For the third essay: Just a factual description, or something more? Also, how long should it be?</p>

<p>Thanks! :)</p>

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<p>My word counts were:</p>

<p>1:112
2:320
3:653</p>

<p>I’d say the 2nd one probably should/will be longer than the first, but roughly 300-500 word combined seem about right, my 1st one was 1 paragraph and my second 2, to give some idea of how I broke it up.</p>

<p>For the summer essay it was largely description, but I tried to make a point of explaining what the activites meant to me and how they define me as an individual.</p>

<p>Hope that helps, Good Luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks! I guess mine will roughly be similar in length.</p>

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<p>I have shorter essays, but I dont really care because it’s not so important as everyone thinks. This is not SAT…</p>

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<p>Is that so? I though St. Lawrence didn’t take SATs too seriously.</p>

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<p>I meant something else. It is “proven” that longer essays get better grades on SAT writing section.</p>

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<p>Ah. OK. :slight_smile: Yes, that makes sense.</p>

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<p>Hi,
I found something. If you look at the downloadable form, there are only a few lines for each of these answers. I wonder why they’re letting us upload answers to these questions as files rather than having us enter it on the website, directly. Anyway, I’m keeping all my essays to ~100-200 words.</p>

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<p>first question they say ‘indicate’. So i believe it should be short. just a reason.
i’m also writing for StLawrence :slight_smile:
goodluck</p>