I’m applying to college and using the good ole’ Common App. All the schools left I have to apply to require these little supplemental essays and I was wondering if the same person who reads the big common app essay reads the supplemental essays? My big common app essays comes from a creative writing aspect (because I believe that’s my strongest writing style) and I was wondering that if I made the supplemental essay a continuation of the big one would it be understood?
We each read the entire file. The Common App is the general info that all schools would ask. Each school’s tab has the questions that only they need to ask. It comes to use as ONE application.
This is why people like the Common App. They don’t have to fill out their name, address, activities, etc a half dozen times (like we did in the dark ages).
DO NOT use the same topic for the short answer questions on the UVA part of the app. You have an opportunity to tell us something else that isn’t coming through in the rest of the app. Use it!