<p>The application for 2008 is up...and I'm confused. It said we could either use the NYU app, but if we used the Common app (which I am doing), we needed to do the supplement. Which part of the application online is supplement? Which essays is supplement? It's really unclear (maybe just to me), but I'm really confused. Thanks. PS. I wanna apply to SCPS Hospitality Major.</p>
<p>You have to specify on the Common App that NYU is one of the schools that you are applying to, and it will lead you to the supplement, which is basically really shortened versions of the essays found on the regular application. You still have to do the Common App main application, however.</p>
<p>how long is the short essay? thanks!</p>
<p>There's about three-five short answer questions, about 50 words each (if I remember correctly)...that's for the NYU Supplement. In addition to that, there's a big essay on the Common Application, about 500 words.</p>
<p>There are four short answer questions (I think). They're actually 150-200 words, I remember, because I wrote longish paragraphs for all of them. And I remember one of the questions was, "Describe what you did last Sunday (or the Sunday before that, etc.)?" and another was, "Apart from the NYC location, what attracts you to NYU?"</p>
<p>adding onto what ijailin89 said (along with everyone else), another one of the questions asked to describe your most prominent extracurricular activity, and another was about your academic endeavors at NYU (i think). I had such a problem fitting everything into the five lines they provided, I kept having to rewrite it to make my writing smaller and smaller.<br>
I would think it'd be easier to just request the actual NYU application, that way it's all in there.</p>
<p>They only gave you five lines?</p>
<p>The online application has a lot more space... I remember having to trim down my essays, but not to five lines. If you can, do that one.</p>
<p>... I used the online one too, and they made me trim it to five lines. I even looked the other day and they ended up cutting one of my essays off at the end. I still got in, though.</p>