<p>is there a supplemental essay to the common app?</p>
<p>this is the supplement form <a href="http://www.brandeis.edu/admissions/applying/PDF1/2007supplement.PDF%5B/url%5D">http://www.brandeis.edu/admissions/applying/PDF1/2007supplement.PDF</a> </p>
<p>it doesn't have an essay</p>
<p>This stinks! I really find writing essays important for fully expressing myself.</p>
<p>you can always send in a supplemental essay. I did, and they liked me enough to give me generous financial aid! Well, generous in the Brandeis sense.</p>
<p>I suppose you chose your own topic, correct?</p>
<p>Yes I did. The topic being, "Why Brandeis?" Conventional, I know, but it needed to be said. </p>
<p>However, my main essay was about me travelling with Hemingway, Thoreau, and Kerouac, and the ending paragraph was very Kerouacian stream-of-consciousness...so I'm not always conventional. :)</p>
<p>^Oh, very nice, very nice indeed. My essay for UChicago is extremely unconventional as well, very Vonnegutesque, if I may say so, but then all of UChicago's essay topics were extremely unconventional and just outright fun!</p>