Is Personal Statement or Supplemental Essays more important?

mathmom
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:56:14 +0000

I don’t think there’s any way to say. In fact, I’d say whichever essay makes the admissions officer say, “Wow, this kid would be fun/interesting to have in a class/as a roommate.” I suspect that for my younger son, at Tufts it was a supplement essay, at U of Chicago, he got a comment from the AO about his funny “Why Chicago essay”. Most essays don’t make much of a difference at all. One AO said at a school presentation, "A few essays are so wonderful that they might make a difference. A few are so terrible, that they negate anything good in the application, but most just confirm what they’ve already heard from teacher recommendations, and the other material in the application.