<p>im confused, why is tufts the longest?
is it the optional essay? does it significantly lower our chances if we dont do that?</p>
<p>i think columbia's is a pain in the butt bc off the long essay, i wrote it like 12 times.</p>
<p>I didn't do tufts optional essay. No idea what effect it has but because I didn't do it Tufts was easy.</p>
<p>coool mannn</p>
<p>I didn't think Tufts was so bad. I did the optional essay (the "who are you?" one) about how I'm terrified of things that go bump in the night and whatnot 'cause I'm a wimp and I actually found that one fun to write. I didn't think that it was so tough, but a couple of my essays were reused into the Tufts one, so... yeah. Plus I mailed in my essays separately from the supplement form.</p>
<p>Wait... how did you gusy get to submit three essays to princeton (if you did it online the directions were diff).</p>
<ol>
<li>Tufts, mainly because I want to go there most. (I wrote the optional, and am thinking of writing an EXTRA essay to explain how much I love it there, and just sending it on Tuesday or something. Maybe e-mail.)</li>
<li>Cornell - haven't done it yet!</li>
<li>Hamilton</li>
<li>Barnard</li>
<li>SUNY Geneseo</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Ithaca College</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
</ol>
<p>I thought Columbia's was pretty easy. I used my common app essay for the long essay. Brown PLME was a *****. I gave up. I don't even want to be a doctor, my dad does. I'll just tell him I got rejected from PLME if I get in.</p>
<p>Brown app was a huge pain in the ass, especially with the science supplement (I'm sure PLME sucked, too). </p>
<p>Harvard app was so incredibly easy. One essay on any topic, one short answer on any activity, then the usual app information to fill out.</p>
<p>TheOneKid: Three essays to princeton using common app. The common app one and two 250 word essays. Plus summers and all that jazz.</p>
<p>Hardest to Easiest:</p>
<p>MIT - The optional essay was a killer because the object I built could literally not be described accurately in less than 900 words.</p>
<p>Harvard - How do you make yourself stand out where everyone is awesome?</p>
<p>Emory and WUSTL - Their applications were fine but the scholarship essays are tedious.</p>
<p>Northwestern - I actually liked answering the short answers and found it relatively easy to write.</p>
<p>Columbia - This is probably my first choice but the application was pretty easy. My chances, well that is a different story.</p>
<p>Notre Dame - I finished this application in less than 4 hours, so I found it relatively easy.</p>
<p>Ohio State - Based on numbers alone I was in the honors and scholars program so I spent minimal time. (I've been accepted)</p>
<p>I only did one and it wasn't hard at all. It was pretty cut and dry.</p>
<p>Hardest to Easiest:
Johns Hopkins: Darn you $10 essay! I think I rewrote it five or six times. Now usually that'd be a lot. But considering that two of those times they were artsy (photography) and I spent a lot of time on them, and you can see why it was so hard.</p>
<p>UPenn: because I couldn't visit, describing why I it was a perfect match was really hard without being cliche. </p>
<p>USC: I struggled to write their essay, but when I did, it was brilliant. Or pretty good at least ;) It took 3-4 times before I could get out a quality essay</p>
<p>Case: pretty easy. I found a perfect example (I described how my views changed over a long period of time) for the essay. It was longer than the other essays, but it was quality.</p>
<p>----rest---- were ones you've never heard of or commapp :)</p>
<p>U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
Hands down--THE hardest
-6 essays
-3 interviews
-3 teacher evals
-Fitness test
-Medical test</p>
<p>Easiest -- Purdue University
-no essay
-no interview
-no teacher evals
-Just fill out the online app (10 minutes)
and print a sheet out and give it to ur college counselor to fill
out and expect to be admitted in 2 weeks</p>
<ol>
<li>Brown-because I wanna go there so bad!</li>
<li>Georgetown:SFS-I'm really scared for my world issue essay</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna, because it was my first app so it was especially hard</li>
<li>UW Honors because I had to write hella essays</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins, because I had to start and finish it in 6 hours because I found out it was due a day earlier than I thought</li>
<li>Tufts-the optional essay was actually pretty easy for me</li>
<li>Whitman-stupid diveristy essay, I have no idea what to do still</li>
<li>Macalester</li>
<li>Middlebury-I'd already done the Common app, so all I did was change the last 2 sentences of my UW Honors essay and mailed it in.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Brown- PLME, additional essays</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>The rest of other schools I applied- common app.</li>
</ol>
<p>Hardest to easiest:</p>
<p>1) Brown (PLME, first choice/want to go the most, worked very hard)
2) Johns Hopkins- Had to modify my "main" essay to fit $10 prompt
3) UPenn- Had to modify "main" essay to fit pg 217 prompt
4) Cornell- Not much extra work to do</p>
<ol>
<li>villanova - community</li>
<li>whitman - diversity</li>
</ol>
<p>Stanford had hardest app when it was due.</p>
<p>Chicago's was the most challenging, but worth it I felt.</p>
<p>Chicago .</p>