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Ivy League and
Common Application Tips:
How to Get Accepted
An Accepted.com Report
by Whitney Bruce
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How to Get Accepted
Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................. 3
Common Application Essay Tips............................................................................ 4
Summarizing Your Activities on the Common Application................................... 6
Tips for Completing Your Application to Brown University.................................. 7
Columbia University’s Application: Tips to Compel.............................................. 9
Tips for Completing the Cornell Supplement to the Common Application......... 10
Tips for Completing Your Harvard College Application...................................... 11
Tips for Completing the Penn Common App Supplemental Essay...................... 13
Tips for Completing Your Application to Princeton University........................... 14
About the Author.................................................................................................. 16
Epilogue................................................................................................................ 16
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Introduction
Applying to an Ivy League college is certainly not a common occurrence; getting in is even less so. So
it seems incongruous that applying to the hallowed halls of Ivy League universities1 requires the use of
a non-elitist tool—that is, the Common Application—an application meant to make applying easier for
all strata of society and our educational system. And yet, with the ease and availability of the Common
Application, and the trend to apply to a lengthy list of schools, competition for the elite schools has
intensified as acceptance rates have sunk like a rock in water.
When using the Common Application2 to apply to an Ivy League school, you have to put extra energy
into making sure your qualifications stand out from the crowd of applicants, most of whom are also
using the Common App. You need to learn how to transform the standard form into an “uncommon”
and unique portrait of you, showing how you’ll fit in and contribute to your dream school.
You’ll also need to make sure that you’re fully equipped with expert tips and advice when it comes to
filling out the supplemental essays required by all Ivy League schools.
And that’s where this special report comes in. In Ivy League and Common Application Tips: How to
Get Accepted, college admissions expert Whitney Bruce provides detailed advice on how to fill out the
Common Application and its supplemental essays correctly and creatively3 so you can maximize your
chances of acceptance to an Ivy League school!
So, here we go!
(P.S. As soon as Yale and Dartmouth release their supplemental questions, we will update this special
report with relevant tips and advice on those questions. We will then send you the updated copy.)
1 http://www.accepted.com/college/top-colleges.aspx
2 http://www.accepted.com/college/commonapplicationwebinar/default_b.aspx
3 http://www.accepted.com/SampleEssays.aspx
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Common Application Essay Tips
If you are a high school senior, there is a good chance that the Common Application4 website is
bookmarked on your web browser, or printed, sitting on your desk. An ominous reminder of the
promise that you made to yourself: I will write my college essays this summer.
With more than 400 colleges and universities5, including many of the nation’s most selective postsecondary institutions, accepting the Common Application, there’s a good chance that you’ll be
addressing one of its broad-ranging essay questions. Here are a few tips for each of the essay choices.
a
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical
dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
You don’t need to have had a life-changing experience to write an outstanding essay in response to this
prompt. In fact, I wouldn’t wish for you to have gone through most of the life-changing experiences
that students use as essay topics just so that you have good essay fodder. Think small and reflect on
what you’ve learned.
a Discuss an issue of personal, local, national or international concern and its
importance to you.
An effective essay often makes it clear to the reader why this issue is important to the applicant. You’ve
missed an opportunity to convey your passion6 to the admissions committee if you simply write an
essay about current newspaper headlines. Look instead to your volunteer experiences or social action
clubs in which you’ve been involved and draw upon those encounters.
a Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you and describe that
influence.
Many grandparents have had a significant influence on applicants. Not to belittle writing about a
grandparent, or a parent, or a sibling who battles cancer, as there are some powerful stories to be
told, but often the reviewer is left knowing much more about that person and less about the applicant.
Thoughtful reflection and word choice will help you to shed light about both parties in an effective
response to this prompt.
a Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in
art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that
influence. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life
experiences adds much to the educational mix. 4 http://www.commonapp.org/
5 https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Members.aspx
6 http://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/2007/2/19/what-is-passion-in-admissions.html
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This one seems so easy—simply draw upon a section of your junior year English journal or tap that
essay you wrote for art history. Don’t do it. If you are a musician, or an avid reader, or a budding
scientist, you have a plethora of material from which to draw. Think not only about the work you
choose, but perhaps the learning process that you underwent in discovering the work.
a Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what
you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that
demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
This question isn’t all that different from the first essay, only with a focus on diversity. In writing about
this prompt, think carefully about the diversity experience you had and your role in it.
a Topic of your choice.
Again, resist the urge to revisit an English paper. This is your opportunity to tell the admission
committee something. Use it. And don’t forget to include a prompt—it serves as a guide for the
conclusion you’d like the reader to draw from the essay.
Are you unsure where to start?7 If one of the essay choices doesn’t leap off the page, don’t get bogged
down. Go ahead, write a paragraph or two about an experience. After you have moved beyond the
blank page on your computer screen, it will become clearer which essay choice you should address.
You can fine-tune your answer with multiple drafts.
With all of these topics, it is easy to write a basic essay that doesn’t provide more information about
the applicant to the admission committee. Ensure that your essay stands out by writing in an authentic
voice and allowing your story to shed light on your academic interests, extracurricular passions or
defining experiences.8
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How to Use Sample Essays to Make Your Essay Outstanding!
Summarizing Your Activities on the Common Application
You’ll find the activities chart just above the essay questions on the Common Application. It looks
straightforward, and in some ways, it is. However, given the differences between communities, high
schools and your individual passions, it is important to give some thought to the way you represent
your extracurricular time.9
• The Common Application specifically asks you to list your activities in the order of
importance to you. (They bold it in their instructions, too.) Time and again, students list
activities in an order that doesn’t mesh with the rest of their application. Chances are,
National Honor Society isn’t your most personally significant activity, and unless you’ve
demonstrated an unusual level of commitment to it in other parts of the application,
you’ve just lost some legitimacy with the application reviewer if you list it first.
• Likewise, don’t assume that the college wants to see any specific activity listed as most
important. Listing one activity at the top because you presume that the admissions
committee wants to see it at the top defeats the purpose. Colleges want all sorts of
students on their campus. They want tuba players and tennis players, presidents and
prose writers. Be yourself.
• While many of your activities might take place within the context of your high school,
think about all of your time. Do you devote significant amounts of time to a hobby
or special interest? Are you particularly involved with a church or religious group?
One year, our committee had a student who had spent a great deal of time baking. She
took the time to explain her commitment to the croissant. Did we find her compelling?
Absolutely. Had she explained that her interest went well beyond baking a batch of
cookies for the track team bake sale? Yes.
• Is your activity selective? Consider sharing that with the admissions committee. In some
high schools, making a varsity sports team as a freshman is a true accomplishment. At
other schools, there is only a varsity sports team, and everyone participates.
• Resist the temptation to exaggerate. Many activities fluctuate in their time commitment.
You might spend 12 hours a day in preparation for a debate tournament, or a week on a
mission trip. When your individual club commitments add up to more than 100 hours
in a week, it becomes difficult to gauge your true commitments and the reader is more
likely to become skeptical of your application.
Put together a first draft of your activities, then rethink your roles and time commitments from the past
few years. If you need help jogging your memory, flip through your old yearbooks.
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Tips for Completing Your Application to Brown University
The academic page banner on the Brown website10 proclaims, “Brown gives students the freedom
to direct their education.” If that tenet wasn’t clear before, it should be now. The independence that
Brown seeks from its students is evident in the most lengthy of Ivy League supplements. If you are
seeking a Brown education, however, the included questions should be both thought provoking and
interesting. Flexibility is a hallmark of the Brown experience. Unfettered by a core curriculum or even
the distribution requirements of many other colleges, students at Brown pursue their own education. The courses a student chooses are based upon his or her own ideas of education and of challenge,
interest, and intellectual development. With these tenets of the Brown education in mind, consider the writing component of the Brown
Supplement11 to the Common Application.12 Whether you draw inspiration from the biblical statement
of “to whom much has been given, much is expected, “ or from Spiderman (“with great power
comes great responsibility,”) the application makes it clear that a Brown student should embrace the
application as he would the curriculum with purpose, creative thought, and determination. The first writing section asks applicants to consider their academic interests within the context of the
Brown curriculum, identifying potential areas of study and elaborating on the roots of their interests. Many other colleges ask a similar version of this question, which can be challenging for the student
who is truly “undecided”. Use this short answer to share some insight into your academic curiosity and
in the follow-up question, consider why the flexibility to explore and potentially combine disciplines is
important to you.
The second writing section asks about your background and influential experiences, seeking answers
ranging from 25 to 300 words. Brown (in a question similar to one from the University of Michigan),
looks to see how you define yourself relative to others – by asking you to write about a community
with which you identify. It’s easy to identify yourself by geography, ethnicity, or politics – groups for
which we already have a label. If you choose one of these more common groups, try to avoid relying
on cliché and general conclusions. As always, keep it personal.13
Several of the writing prompts in this section ask you to consider how you define yourself and how you
react to change. As you brainstorm, consider the following questions:
How do you think about yourself relative to others? If you are a visual thinker, a Venn diagram could
be useful here. Diagram the many circles to which you belong. Do you define yourself by where
you have lived, or by how often that has changed? Do you remain the same in all situations or share
common ground with a chameleon, adapting to your environment? Do you seek to take risks? What
10 http://www.brown.edu/
11 http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/pages/Brown%20First%20Year%20Supplement%202010-2011.pdf
12 https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx
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kind? Are you afraid of failure? How have you reacted to a difficult or unexpected situation? It is easy
to identify yourself by your hometown, or your ethnicity and more challenging to look at your identity
through a variety of lenses. When I was thinking about these questions, the correlation between risk
and changed perspective was evident. How do those two elements interrelate for you? Many strong
essays rely on a central conflict, and these elements offer a strong starting point for this construction. Whether you choose to address these questions in the most traditional manner or a more creative way,
the admission committee will learn more about you if you set a scene and tell a story.
One option for the longer essay is to discuss your reasons for attending college. For many students
who are applying to Brown, they have always known that they would go to college. It’s just the next
step in the path after high school for them. The straight line to college was drawn in preschool, if not
before. If this is your current answer, make another choice for the optional essay. Then spend some
time thinking about your reasons for attending college. You will be a better college student, at Brown
or any other college, for understanding this about yourself.
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Columbia University’s Application: Tips to Compel
When I visited Columbia University,14 it was clear to me that the undergraduate college takes
distinct pride in two things: the 100-year-old Core Curriculum and the University’s relationship
with the city in which it resides. The Columbia University supplement reflects those emphases. As
a prospective student, I encourage you to think about how these two components of the Columbia
education fit with your educational goals.
The Columbia supplement consists of several lists and three short answer questions. For the quick
questions about your interests, which ask you to list books, concerts, media that you have enjoyed over
the past year, provide straightforward responses. As an academically engaged student, there should
be plenty of media and arts that have captured your attention. Share both the mundane and the more
interesting. If you have a strong interest in a subject area, chances are your reading interests at least
peripherally relate. The Core Curriculum at Columbia includes humanities courses that focus on music
and art in addition to literature, and the question about performances or exhibits dovetails with this
component of the curriculum. These courses also take advantage of the rich opportunities available to
students in New York CiThe integration of a strong campus center (the vast majority of students live on
campus for four years) with the accessibility of the city and its commitment to a core curriculum, make
Columbia a college with its own mission. There are many facets to Columbia that make it distinctive,
and therefore, your short answer about your interest in Columbia should be specific and well connected
to your interests and its strengths. If you feel that you need more information about Columbia, check
the website for more information about their fall evening programs15 in cities around the United States.
Columbia is a member of the Common Application, and does offer an early decision program for
students who are confident that Columbia is their first choice.
14 http://www.columbia.edu/
15 http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/events/intro.php
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Tips for Completing the Cornell Supplement to the Common Application
A friend of mine has a son who is studying at Cornell University.16 When I look at the Cornell
supplement, it isn’t hard to picture “John” sitting at his computer, writing the supplemental statement. It’s also easy to see why he was such a compelling applicant to their admission committee. John is
a birder, and he was well acquainted with Cornell’s ornithology program. As a high school student,
he had spent hours searching for specific species and summers tracking birds in northern Canada. He
could tell you specifically what he was going to do with his Cornell education. Happily now, he’s in
Ithaca, following through on his initial plans.
If you are searching for academic options in the Ivy League, look carefully at Cornell. Its
undergraduate enrollment is larger than its Ivy brethren, and the diversity of its offerings and majors
complements its size. Applicants select one (and sometimes an alternate) of the 7 undergraduate
divisions when submitting an application.
While it might be tempting to check the box for a less competitive division (although they are all
competitive) and then change after admission, Cornell’s supplemental essay questions ask students to
write specifically about the roots of their interests. The admissions committee is searching for students
who have made deliberate choices about their intended areas of study. You’ve embarked upon a tough
fiction-writing task to convince the committee of your desire to study architecture when you fulfilled
your arts requirement exclusively with drama, avoided physics like the plague, and have devoted your
extracurricular time to soccer and the soup kitchen.
While it isn’t uncommon for students to change their minds about their areas of study while in college,
devoting thought to what excites you intellectually now will help you determine what type of environment
suits you in college, and will give you career direction as you move forward in the next few years.
For students who are planning to apply to a number of colleges, writing about your area of academic
interest is a common question. For each of these questions, avoid general statements such as “English
is my favorite class” and instead focus on the specifics about studying English that appeal to you. Did
a specific project excite you? Do you enjoy a particular genre of writing? What are your career goals,
and how does your intended major relate to that? If you are writing about extracurricular pursuits,
which are particularly relevant to Agriculture and Hotel Administration applicants, again, be specific
about your experiences and what you’ve learned from them.
Applicants to Cornell generally demonstrate very high levels of academic achievement in the classroom
and on standardized tests. Each undergraduate division at Cornell, however, has slightly different
requirements for admission regarding testing and high school curriculum. Double-check the requirements
to ensure that you have completed all of the necessary components before submitting your application.
16 http://www.cornell.edu/
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Tips for Completing Your Harvard College Application
Last year, almost 35,000 students applied to Harvard College.17 Of those, 2158 received offers of
admission to join the class of 2015. That’s 6.1%. With 35,000 applicants, most of whom present
nearly perfect academic credentials and outstanding commitments to extracurricular excellence, you
face a critical question: How do you stand out?
With the entire college process, be yourself. Be your best self, but yourself. Your Harvard application
is no different.
This year, Harvard has reinstated the restrictive early action process. If Harvard is your first choice,
you can consider applying early, with a preferred deadline of October 15th and a final deadline of
November 1. The restrictive early action choice prohibits applicants from filing additional single
choice early action, or early decision applications. It does allow for submission of rolling admission
or regular decision applications prior to receiving a decision from Harvard. If you are admitted to
Harvard under the early action program, you have until May 1 to decide whether or not to accept the
offer of admission.
A completed Harvard application includes either the ACT with writing or the SAT exam. Harvard also
requires two SAT II subject tests. To allow for your application to be fully reviewed, and to save the
expense of rush reporting, try to complete all of your testing requirements in advance of the deadline,
by the October deadline for early action and the November test date for regular decision. The Harvard Common Application supplement does not require an additional essay, however, you
may choose to submit one on the topic of your choice. Before you feel compelled to fill blank space,
be certain that you will enhance your application by adding additional information. Has there been
more to the last 18 years of your life than you have already explained? Probably. Will it take time and
introspection to write a worthwhile supplemental essay?18 Yes. Before you begin writing, consider the
information you have already provided through your common application. Brainstorm about other
experiences that might differentiate you from other candidates, and put yourself at the initial center of
your essay. You are the person the admission committee wants to understand. The key in answering
this open-ended essay is to be certain that the reader knows more about the way you think about,
engage in, or reflect on the world around you after reading the supplement than before.
One of the Harvard suggestions is to include a list of books that you have read in the last 12 months. If you spend substantial time reading for pleasure or intellectual engagement, this list might provide
compelling insight on your application. If your list outside of AP English includes only a few
bestsellers and a “Chicken Soup for the Soul”, consider a different approach to the question.
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While it is tempting to ignore the question, or submit an essay that you have already written for another
application, take the time to put your best work in front of the Harvard admission committee. When
you have finished the first draft, consider the reader of your application. One extra page, times 35,000
applicants, means you best have something meaningful to say.
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Tips for Completing the Penn Common App Supplemental Essay
As an application reviewer and a college counselor, I struggle with the “why us?” question. The
question from the University of Pennsylvania19 supplement is no different.
The opportunities, both academic and extracurricular, at Penn are broad and appealing. The admissions
committee has a reputation for seeking students who are especially committed to their interest in the
school and this question clearly seeks to find the essence of that interest. • Considering both the specific undergraduate school or program to which you are
applying and the broader University of Pennsylvania community, what academic,
research, and/or extracurricular paths do you see yourself exploring at Penn?
• The trick with this question is to write an essay that addresses the question without
sounding like you’ve swallowed the viewbook and at the same time providing personal
insight, personality and voice to you answer. Penn offers you up to 500 words in
answering the question. Consider the following:
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With its emphasis on research and interdisciplinary study, if this is an area that
interests you, or you have a research background, mention it. If your interests
are well defined, and based upon previous experience, even if it is only in-depth
reading about a particular topic, demonstrate your intellectual engagement within
the context of this essay.
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If you are academically undecided, consider how Penn will help you explore areas
of interest. Draw a parallel to another time in which you have been able to explore
something new.
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What is appealing about Penn’s urban campus? How is it similar to or different
from other places that you have lived?
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If you have visited Penn,20 attended an information session about Penn either in
your community or high school, draw upon your reactions to what you’ve learned. If you know students at Penn, ask them what they like most about the college.
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What does it mean to be part of the larger Penn community as an alumnus/a?
Spend some time picturing yourself on the campus and use the essay as an opportunity to expand upon
some of the things you find most appealing about college while sharing more about your background
and goals. You can also draw briefly on some of your past experiences to highlight how they might
transition onto the Penn campus.
19 http://www.upenn.edu/
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Tips for Completing Your Application to Princeton University
I’ve always enjoyed working with students who are applying to Princeton.21 As a group, they have
interesting and engaged minds. Extracurricularly, their accomplishments are varied and distinctive. The Princeton application tries to elicit specifics about those facets of each applicant through its
supplement. In the age of streamlined “easy apps” and electronic application review that makes
applicants seem more similar than different, Princeton is one college whose application seeks to learn
more about the person behind the papers.
The Princeton supplement22 really allows students to become a person in front of the reader. The section
entitled “A Few Details” has been there for years, and applicants can truly address the categories in
just a few words. Complete sentences and lots of explanation aren’t necessary or even encouraged. Resist the urge to be someone you are not in this section. As a Princeton applicant, you are no doubt
intelligent, passionate, and accomplished. Be that same intelligent, passionate, accomplished teenager
in this section. Your answers to these details don’t all need to be highbrow, super-intellectual, SATword answers. Resist the urge to be someone you are not in this section.
Recently, there has been a lot of press about how a high school student should spend his or her
summers to enhance college applications. Princeton asks you to specifically detail your recent summer
activities. Whether you travelled extensively, studied intensely, or worked a full-time job,23 you learned
something. Think about those life lessons as you list your summer activities. There may also be
material for your longer writing sample lurking in those 6 months of summer vacation.
In its longer writing sample, Princeton offers four choices for candidates to write one essay of about
500 words.
• Tell us about a person who has influenced you in a significant way.
This question overlaps with the Common Application essay, and it is obviously crucial that
your answer to this question not overlap with your previous essay. If your primary Common
Application essay addresses this question, select a different topic for the supplemental
essay. With this topic, it is easy to tell the reader a lot about the person who has influenced
you, yet miss the opportunity to explain how that person’s influence has impacted you. A
strong essay does both, but with an emphasis on the latter.
• Using the statement below as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that
helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world.
“Princeton in the Nation’s Service” was the title of a speech given by Woodrow Wilson on
21 http://www.princeton.edu/
22 http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/PU_Supp_10_11.pdf
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the 150th anniversary of the University. It became the unofficial Princeton motto and was
expanded for the University’s 250th anniversary to “Princeton in the nation’s service and in
the service of all nations.”
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton Class of 1879, served on the faculty and was Princeton’s
president from 1902–1910.
• Using the following quotation from “The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic
Society” as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define
one of your values or changed how you approach the world.
“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but
having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is
predicated upon hope.”
Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American
Studies, Princeton University
• Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years
as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of
your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation at the
beginning of your essay.
The final three topics all address one point—“tell us about an event or experience that
helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world.” Each of
these questions is asking you, the applicant, to tell a story. Pick an experience, large or
small, that impacted you, and share it with the admissions committee. Once you have told
your story, ensure that you address its impact on you. Your options in these questions allow
you to address this in any number of ways, from the most macro, global event, to a smaller,
more personal moment. Don’t be afraid to think, draw connections, and demonstrate
maturity through your essay.
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About the Author
Whitney Bruce24 has worked in college admissions since 1996. She has served as Senior Assistant
Director of Admissions (Washington U), Application Reader (University of Michigan), Assistant Director
of College Counseling (private prep school in St. Louis), and as an independent college counselor.
In addition to having reviewed thousands of applications, Whitney has helped students gain acceptance to
top colleges throughout the country, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Haverford, Columbia,
University of Chicago, Rice University, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, and Davidson.
Epilogue
Thank you for downloading this exclusive Accepted.com special report. We hope you’ve learned
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