UNC essay topics change year-to-year?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>just wondering if the application essays change y2y or not
thanks in advance</p>

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<p>the essays were basically 2 whatever-you-want essays…don’t know if those were the exact instructions, but it was incredibly easy to sub in essays from my CA.</p>

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<p>Yes they do, but they often have at least one or two that are very similar. But they also have a few more specific different topics. And like allgood said, there’s always a choice to use an essay from another school as long as you give them the topic and explain why you chose it.</p>

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<p>As others have said, some change; some don’t. But if you apply to Common App schools, you can use that as your long essay. That only leaves a 250 word essay to complete over the summer or first semester senior year.</p>

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<p>Are the applications that used essays used from the CommonApp viewed differently than the applications that wrote essays using the UNC prompts?</p>

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<p>^I can assure they are not. I had the same question a few months ago when was hurrying to do the essays, and decided to use a draft of my CommonApp essay. I was accepted.

I agree. This worked for me and saved me from writing a mediocre essay for UNC at the last minute. The CommonApp gave me more options to write what I wanted to write about than UNC’s app did. I think it’s better to write one great essay and reuse it than it is to write a couple different ordinary essays to fit different schools.</p>