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Common App Essay Topics: Top Examples 2025

Master the 2025-26 Common App prompts with expert tips, creative topic ideas, and real-life examples of winning college essays from students just like you.

Building a College Resume: Activities to Include This Year

Build a powerful college resume! Discover the best extracurricular activities and top themes to highlight your strengths to admissions committees.

How to Write a Personal Statement for College Admissions?

Letters of Recommendation: How to Ask the Right Way

Need a letter of recommendation? Learn how to ask the right way. This guide helps you pick the best recommender and gives tips for a seamless request.

Making the Most of Senior Year

What else can you do, to make sure you're making the most of senior year?

Social Factors in Choosing a College

Less commonly discussed, though, are the social factors in choosing a college. Let's fix that.

A Parent’s Role in the College Application Process

It can be difficult to know how to best help your child. A parent's role in the college application process, while critical, doesn't need to be so black or white.

Should You Start a New Club?

You look at your extracurriculars. "No, it’s not enough," you worry. "Maybe I should start a new club. Environmental Club? Knitting Club?"

How To Sell That Perfect-Fit College to Family

How can you, as a student, effectively sell that perfect fit college to your parents and/or guardians?

Why America Shouldn’t Be Your Only Option for College

We're here to remind you that America shouldn't be your only option for college destinations!

It’s Time to Amend the Notion of a Dream College

Soon enough, you've grown accustomed to hearing those four words roll off someone else's tongue: "What's your dream college?"

Can Social Media Affect Your Admission?

Here are some guidelines to think about as you start connecting with colleges, and how social media might affect admission chances.

How Personal is Personal in a College Admission Essay?

Surely we've all been told that the more unique our story is, the better chances we have of standing out during the application process. Does this mean you need to talk about the time you were embarrassed when you had a costume mishap during your fifth grade Christmas play?

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