College Specific Supplemental Essays

Some colleges require you to provide additional short answers or longer reflections on topics unique to their school.

Supplemental Essay prompts and interview questions can be very similar. Preparing for a college interview and reviewing possible questions can help you formulate answers for the interview AND for the Supplemental Essays. You need to know yourself to write a good essay and have a good interview.

Review the possible questions and strategy in the FHS article on College Interviews - Tell Me About Yourself and Why Do You Want To Come To This College to help organize your thoughts about the Supplemental Essays and also to help prepare for the interview (if required).

Examples of the most common supplemental essay prompts:

Why this college/major?
Elaborate on an extracurricular activity of significance to you.
Discuss a time when your beliefs were challenged by a different point of view.
Person/Event/Experience that was an important influence on who you are today.
Describe yourself to your future roommate.