University of Delaware - optional essays + honors college consideration?

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Hello! I am new to college confidential but I thought it would be a good website for asking questions to fellow seniors! :slight_smile:
Anyways, I am applying to the University of Delaware as OOS and hope to apply to the Honors College as well. On the common app, there are a total of 4 prompts that apply to my situation (plus 2 required ones for the honors college - which I will definitely write).

Basically, I am wondering if I can apply to the honors college but not write the optional supplements (aside from the required honors college ones), or only write one or two of the optional supplements. I don’t know if UD’s supplements are a sort of a pick-and-choose type of situation where you don’t have to write all of them, but I thought I should ask as the deadline is approaching. There is one supplement about being denied an opportunity that if I were to write it, quite truthfully, I fear it might come across as phony or insincere. If I didn’t write the supplements and only wrote the honors college essays, would that completely ruin my chances of honors/other scholarships?

I saw another post by a CCer that didn’t write the supplements and still got into the honors college WITH merit aid and everything: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/1731335/optional-writing-supplements/

Just a few brief stats:

  • 32 ACT composite with 33 superscore
  • 103.558 weighted GPA
  • great leadership, interest in the arts, overall strong course load and grades
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Write all the supplementals. My son got into U Del last year and for the section about being denied an opportunity he wrote about something that happened to him as a youth in scouts. It was very authentic. It doesn’t have to be something large but just something that didn’t go your way or was unfair.

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Ok, thanks! Sounds good. Is he at UDel right now?