<p>Hi there. This is going out to all the people from previous years who got into CMC. The essay topic this year (I know it was the same last year) is on leaders who changed culture and thought. Who did you write your essays on, how long was it and how did you present it? I'm not looking to plagiarize or anything, I just want to have any idea what type of things the admissions officers are looking for in such a broad question.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>jimmy carter, ironic leader, horrible president, set the mark for how to be a former president, 3 pages long</p>
<p>Thanks bebedrell. does anyone else have others?</p>
<p>Is this year's application out already? If so, when did you get yours? If not, well then, how do you know! LOL!</p>
<p>paul krugman, economic advisor to third world countries, effective and eye-opening journalist, 1 1/2 pgs.</p>
<p>Eleanor Roosevelt, about a page and a half, rambled about how similiar we are and both want to change the world around us. Basically made it all about me while throwing in a referance to Roosevelt to keep on topic. Got in, am still recieving phone calls/letters asking if I'm 100% sure I don't want to go to their school.</p>
<p>thanks! This is a sort of stupid question but: were your pages single or double spaced. I dont want to have a hugh essay cause I'm writing singlespaced or vice versa, ya know?</p>
<p>Always double-space an official school/college essay, unless otherwise specified by the college/instructor/person giving you the essay.</p>
<p>I single spaced my common app essay and the supplement essay. Each was one page, single-spaced. My supplement essay was on William Randolph Hearst...how he controlled the media in our country and therefore controlled what we thoguht, etc. I wrote it all about Hearst, however, and I didn't include anything about myself. I'm a freshman and in talking to others about their supplement essays, I have found that some of them included insight about themselves, and some didn't at all. Thus, there is no wrong answer. This was my theory--they learn about you and your personality in your extra curriculars and your personal or common app essay. The supplememnt is an opportunity to strut your stuff, prove that you can write articulatey on a subject, not so much to input yourself. And by picking the person and explaining how he/she changed culture and thought.</p>