How many hours/days a week should I spend working on Common App/Supplements/Essays?

Thursday8 · 09-21-2012, 08:47 PM

I want to be ready by November, (possibly October 15 for ED at one school) and I just started working on the Common App and my personal statement.

Also, I'm sort of a slow writer. I'm getting faster, but I'm still pretty slow.

aares1 · 09-21-2012, 10:01 PM

Same here. What I'm doing is devoting around thirty minutes to an hour daily, but most of it gets done on the weekends.

slant6 · 09-22-2012, 07:29 PM

As much time as you need to get it finished. I'm bad with scheduling so I'm not giving myself a goal of x hours per week, but so far I end up spending about 4 hours a week on essays alone, and I'm nowhere near finished.