Common App personal statement essays
The 650-word essay that went to every school on the list, from students who got in.
One essay of up to 650 words, sent to every school on your Common App list. It is the only piece of writing you cannot tailor to a single college, so it has to work everywhere at once, and it is usually the first thing an admissions reader sees of your writing.
Want the method before the examples? Read Common App essay examples: how to learn from essays that worked.
First time here? How we verify the students who sell these, what arrives when you buy, and what happens if something goes wrong.
Essay types inside
- Common App · Personal Statement112
- Why-school · Supplement41
- Other supplement32
- Community / Identity · Supplement28
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- Northeastern13
- NYU13
- UIUC13
- USC13
- University of Washington12
- Georgia Tech11
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C- Common App · Personal Statement
- Short answer
- Community / Identity · Supplement
- Other supplement
Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. 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.
- Why-school · Supplement
- The full text of every essay, as the seller submitted it.
- A reading link by email, good for a year.
- Every page watermarked to you, so a leaked copy traces back.
UHow to read these
These are personal statements from students who were admitted, sold by the students who wrote them. Many listings also include the school supplements that went out in the same application, which is the part that is hard to find anywhere else: one voice, in one year, doing two different jobs.
Read them side by side and study the structure rather than the subject. Then close the tab and write the version only you could write.