One Common App Essay, Every College — Walkthrough
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Twelve colleges does not mean twelve personal statements. See how one Common App essay is credited to every college on your list that accepts it, which schools it does not reach, and how many essays you actually owe.
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Twelve colleges does not mean twelve personal statements. Your Common App essay is ONE piece of writing that goes to every Common App college on your list — so when you open a college to pick its essays, the shared one is already there, already counted.
Across your list it credits that essay to every college it reaches, and flags the ones it does not. Supplements stay per school, with what is required and what is optional stated plainly rather than guessed at.
So the number in front of you is the real one — how many essays you actually owe across the whole list, and how many are already behind you.
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