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  1. Cornell First-Year Writing Supplement Prompts

    We will also be open virtually on Wednesdays from 8:00am-4:30pm. In the online Common Application Writing Supplement for those applying for Fall 2025 entry, please respond to both the Cornell University essay question and the essay prompt that corresponds to the undergraduate college or school to which you are applying.

  2. How to Write the Cornell University Essays 2023-2024

    How to Write the Cornell University Essays 2023-2024. The largest of the eight Ivy League universities, Cornell University is made up of eight undergraduate schools that applicants apply directly to. Because of this, you will be required to submit a school-specific supplemental essay (or essays) in addition to one campus-wide essay.

  3. Cornell University Supplemental Essay Prompts: 2024-2025

    Cornell University has released its 2024-2025 supplemental admissions essays for applicants to the Class of 2029.For years, Cornell asked applicants to respond to an essay of up to 650 words in length that essentially asked, "Why Cornell?"But this year, the Ivy League institution has changed things up, creating essays specific to the individual school to which a student is applying within ...

  4. Cornell University 2024-25 Supplemental Essay Prompt Guide

    Cornell University 2024-25 Application Essay Question Explanations. The Requirements: One essay of 350 words for all applicants; one essay of 500 or 650 words or two essays of 200 words and four short answers of 100 words, depending on major selection. Supplemental Essay Type (s): Why, Community.

  5. How to Write the Cornell Supplemental Essay

    The easiest way to do this is to do some "Why Us"-like research and find ways you'll engage with and contribute to the Cornell community. Step 4: Pick a structure. The Narrative Structure works well for students who have faced a challenge in or with this community. Otherwise, the Montage Structure works well.

  6. Preparing for Your Cornell Application

    Start early. There are two parts to your Cornell application - the general Common Application and the Cornell University Writing Supplement, which is also completed through Common App. Give yourself enough time before the application deadline to complete both. You can review the writing prompts for first-year applicants or transfer applicants ...

  7. Cornell University's 2023-24 Essay Prompts

    School of Industrial and Labor Relations Essay. Required. 650 Words. Using your personal, academic, or volunteer/work experiences, describe the topics or issues that you care about and why they are important to you. Your response should show us that your interests align with the ILR School.

  8. 3 Top Tips for a Stand-Out Cornell Essay

    Essay 2 (Required response; choose either Question A or B): Question A: Describe an engineering problem that impacts your local community. This could be your school, neighborhood, town, region, or a group you identify with. Describe one to three things you might do as an engineer to solve the problem.

  9. 2023-24 Cornell University Supplemental Essay Prompt Guide

    How to Write the Cornell Supplemental Essays 2023-24. In addition to the personal statement in the Common Application, you are also required to respond to the Cornell University essay question and the essay prompt (s) for the undergraduate school or college to which you are applying. It's important to note that many of Cornell's ...

  10. 3 Great Cornell Essay Examples

    3 Great Cornell Essay Examples. Cornell is one of the top schools in the nation, and a member of the esteemed Ivy League. With an extremely low general acceptance rate, admissions is highly-selective, though keep in mind that acceptance rates vary by schools within the university. Cornell requires a single supplement for all applicants, but the ...

  11. Cornell Supplemental Essays 2024-25

    The 7.3% acceptance rate for Cornell's Class of 2027 was just a touch higher than last year's 6.9%. However, as late as 2003, the school still had as high as a 31% acceptance rate. Clearly, getting into Cornell in 2024-25 is a vastly different enterprise than earlier in the millennium. Even if you earned a 1450+ on the SAT and maintained ...

  12. How to Write the Cornell Supplemental Essays 2024-2025

    Cornell's 2024-2025 Prompts. The first prompt listed below is required for all applicants to Cornell University. The rest of the Cornell supplemental essays are only applicable to applicants to particular colleges. Some of the colleges have just one longer prompt, while others have a series of shorter prompts.

  13. How to Write the Cornell University Essays 2020-2021

    Cornell University is the largest of the eight Ivy League schools. The university's seven undergraduate colleges and 80 majors allow students to pursue many fields of interest. Cornell University accepted only 10.6% of applicants for the 2018-2019 applications cycle. It opted not to report its acceptance rate for the 2019-2020 cycle.

  14. Tips for Answering the Cornell University Supplemental Essay Prompts

    College of Engineering. All applicants are required to write two supplemental essays. Each has a limit of 250 words. Essay 1 is required of all applicants. For Essay 2, you must choose between Question A and Question B. Essay 1 - Required response (250 word limit)

  15. Cornell Transfer Writing Supplement Prompts

    We will also be open virtually on Wednesdays from 8:00am-4:30pm. In the online Common Application Writing Supplement, please respond to both the Cornell University essay question and the essay prompt that corresponds to the undergraduate college or school to which you are applying. Cornell University Essay Question We all contribute to, and are ...

  16. How to get into Cornell + Admission Requirements 2023

    To complete Cornell's supplemental essay requirements, applicants must apply to a specific school within Cornell, and respond to that school's 650 word essay, and some other questions depending on the college. The prompts for each school are below and the Cornell University supplemental essay guide that they were sourced from can be found ...

  17. Cornell University 2021-2022 Essay Prompts

    Cornell University has released its essay prompts for the 2021-2022 admissions cycle. These essays apply to applicants to the Cornell Class of 2026. Now, for those folks who check out the college essay prompts for all the highly selective universities year in and year out not because you have children applying each year but just out of ...

  18. Cornell Supplemental Essays & Cornell Essay

    Cornell acceptance rate: 9% - U.S. News ranks Cornell as a most selective school. Cornell supplemental essay requirements: 1-2 school-specific essays (varies depending on school) Cornell application note: The prompts and word counts for the Cornell supplemental essays vary depending on the college to which students apply.

  19. How to Write the Cornell University Essays 2020-2021

    Description. Learn how to write the college-specific Cornell University essays and distinguish yourself as an applicant that is the right fit for Cornell. Hale Jaeger will provide an in-depth breakdown of each college's essay prompts, discussing how to optimize and tailor a response to each one by breaking down the purpose of the prompts.

  20. How to Write the Cornell University Application Essays 2017-2018

    Cornell University Application Essay Prompts The primary focus of your college interest essay should be what you intend to study at Cornell. In the online Common Application Writing Supplement, please respond to the essay question below (maximum of 650 words) that corresponds to the undergraduate college or school to which you are applying.

  21. How to Write the Cornell University Supplemental Essays

    For the 2024-2025 application cycle, Cornell University asks each student to answer at minimum two supplemental questions. Cornell asks the same first supplemental question of each applicant regardless of the school or program to which they are applying. Then, Cornell's individual schools and colleges each require applicants to answer one (or two) more questions to learn more about the ...

  22. First-Year Applicants

    Writing Supplement Prompts. You cannot change the college or school you applied to after submitting your application. Review Standardized Testing Policy. ... Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of ...

  23. An Analysis of the Cornell Supplemental Essays 2021-2022

    Prompts for the Cornell University Supplemental Essays 2021-2022. When you add Cornell as one of your schools in the Common Application, you have to pick one of the seven colleges within Cornell, instead of applying to the university as a whole. These are: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

  24. WCM-Q student named finalist in WPA 2024 Medical Student Essay Competition

    Manaal Siddiqui, a final-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), has been recognized as one of the 12 finalists in the prestigious World Psychiatric Association's (WPA) 2024 Medical Student Essay Competition. Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar . ... In her essay, titled "Using a Socioeconomic Lens to Conceptualize a ...