Supplemental Essay Guides

School-Specific Supplemental Essay
Crash Courses

Supplemental essays are additional pieces of writing required by many highly-selective universities, and they can be just as revealing and important as your personal statement. Read on for how-to guides with essay examples & analysis on tackling these essays for some of the most popular colleges and universities.

American University

Amherst College

Babson College

Barnard College

Boston College

Boston University

Bowdoin College

Brandeis University

Brown University

Bucknell University

University of California (UCs)

Caltech

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western

Chapman University

University of Chicago

Claremont McKenna College

Colgate University

University of Colorado – Boulder

Columbia University

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Duke University

Emory University

Florida AM University

University of Florida

Fordham University

The George Washington University

University of Georgia

Georgetown University

Georgia Tech

Harvard University

Harvey Mudd College

Haverford College

Howard University

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Johns Hopkins University

Loyola Marymount

Lehigh University

UMass Amherst

University of Maryland

University of Michigan

University of Miami

MIT

UNC Chapel Hill

Northwestern University

University of Notre Dame

NYU

University of Pennsylvania

Penn State University

Pepperdine University

Pomona College

Princeton University

Purdue University

Reed College

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rice University

University of Richmond

University of Rochester

University of San Diego

Santa Clara University

University of Southern California (USC)

Spelman College

Stanford University

SUNY Stony Brook University

Swarthmore College

Syracuse University

Texas A&M University

Tufts University

Tulane University

Tuskegee University

University of Texas – Austin

Vanderbilt University

Vassar College

Villanova University

University of Virginia (UVA)

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest University

University of Washington

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

William and Mary

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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