It depends, if you are sending electronically (especially on the common app where your essay will be truncated if too long), you should single space.
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Double-spaced. After reading essay after essay, they start to blur together, so make it easy for adcoms to read your essay.
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I agree but also after reading essay after essay, to pick up and essay that is 2/3 pages or more is also going to be a turnoff and not get read. No amount of spacing will make up for good editing.