If College Application Essays Were Honest

Watch our video on all the things students never say but wish they could. I respond to the following prompts:

MIT Prompt:

Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why?

Dartmouth Prompt:

What excites you?

Common Application Prompt:

All six essay prompts

Princeton Prompt:

Please describe why you are interested in studying engineering at Princeton. Include any of your experiences in, or exposure to engineering, and how you think the programs offered at the University suit your particular interests.

Stanford Prompt:

Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate—and us—get to know you better.

USC Prompt:

What is something about yourself that is essential to understanding you?

Harvard Prompt:

Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences. 

Columbia Prompt:

List the titles of the books, essays, poetry, short stories or plays you read outside of academic courses that you enjoyed most during secondary/high school.

Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars Program:

What aspirations, experiences or relationships have motivated you to study in the eight-year Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars Program?

NYU Prompt:

Why NYU? We would like to know more about your interest in NYU. What motivated you to apply to NYU? Why have you applied or expressed interest in a particular campus, school, college, program, and or area of study? If you have applied to more than one, please also tell us why you are interested in these additional areas of study or campuses. We want to understand – Why NYU?

 
 
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