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honestly remixing your college app supplemental essays is the only way you’ll avoid burnout… take it from someone who applied to 17 colleges… and got into every single one of them!

after working with over 200 students on their college essays, I’ve realized this process works the best for me:

take your entire life into account as a whole, and determine the 3-5 most important areas of your life. this can be extracurriculars but they don’t have to be: it can also be an element of your childhood/adolescence that shaped you growing up, like culture/heritage, or even a weird personality trait or obsession (mine was definitely the MCU).

each one of those things will become its own supplement, falling into these possible categories:

intellectual curiosity/why major
leadership/community
something unique/different/diverse about your adolescence or the way you see the world
your weird little quirks

many schools will ask questions that fall into these categories above!!!

so once you know which anecdote suits which kind of question, you can get into the remixing stage: using the anecdote as a base or a hook, but altering the direction of the essay to fully answer that school’s specific supplemental question.

that is the most important part of mixing/matching supplements: you must make sure to fully answer all components of the supplemental essay question!

want to see how I remixed my own essays for each college? no gatekeeping here: I’ve published every single essay I wrote that got me into all 8 Ivy Leagues and more. On my website!