SAMPLE TOPICS FOR THE COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY


In addition to the essays from the Common Application, individual college applications usually call for several essays of different lengths.  Here are a few typical topics to consider for your practice writing, as well as the link for the essay prompts for the Common App.  

“If you could go to dinner with anyone, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be, why, and what would you talk about?”

“If you knew that everything you owned was going to vanish tomorrow, but you could save only one item, what would it be and why?”

“It is 25 years into the future:  how does your specific life fit into the contemporary world?”

“Ask and answer the one important question which you wish we had asked.”

“If you were to describe yourself with a quotation, what would that quotation be and why?”

“Identify a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.”

Common App essay prompts: Click here

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