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Common App Essay: Choose Your Own Topic

September 5, 2024

Not sure what to write about for your Common App college essay? Do not fear. You can write about virtually anything – as long as your essay contains fundamental elements. Here are Great College Advice’s tips on the ‘your choice’ Common App essay prompt:

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Class Size & Student to Faculty Ratios: What Research Says?

February 1, 2024

Student to faculty ratios are statistics that purport to describe the educational quality of a university. A lower ratio seems to indicate smaller class sizes and a more intimate classroom experience. Not so. These ratios are unrelated to average class size, and they do not have anything to do with educational quality. An expert college admissions counselor explains what is behind these statistics and how to get beyond them to understand the truth about the educational environment at a college or university.

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Common App Essay Prompt #5: Personal Growth

October 2, 2024 / Jared Hobson
In this post, Great College Advice provides insight in how to best address the personal growth Common App essay prompt.
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Tips for Prompt #3 of the Common App Essay: Questioning or Challenging a Belief or Idea

September 25, 2024 / Jared Hobson
How do your beliefs and ideas shape who you are as a person? The Common App essay prompt #3 focuses on how those beliefs or ideas being challenged can reveal
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Don’t Be Afraid of (The Failure) Prompt #2 of the Common App Essay

September 21, 2024 / Jamie Berger
Great College Advice's Jamie Berger discusses Prompt #2 of the Common App essay, the failure prompt.
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Essay Tips for Prompt #1 of the Common App: Sharing Your Story of What Makes You Unique

September 11, 2024 / Jared Hobson
Writing your Common App essay about your background, identity, interest, or talent is a great way to stand out from the crowd–if you zero in on what the essay prompt
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a boy in blue shirt thinking about writing the first line of the essay

Common App Essay: Choose Your Own Topic

September 5, 2024 / Jared Hobson
Not sure what to write about for your Common App college essay? Do not fear. You can write about virtually anything – as long as your essay contains fundamental elements.
Read More
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Tips for the Common App Essay Prompts

August 27, 2024 / Jared Hobson
Are you having a difficult time getting started on your Common App personal essay? Here are some tips from Great College Advice.
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