<p>Boston University, which was supposed to be a safety or low match, had such a long and intensive supplement for their honors college/merit aid that I finally removed it from my list. Stanford’s supplement is also long, but I thought that their questions were really interesting and I enjoyed writing the essays! </p>
<p>Welcome to the thread, @sweetomango! Where else are you applying? </p>
<p>Also: wow, I can’t believe we’re on page 100 already! I’d just like to claim post #1500 :P</p>
<p>Has anybody visited Boston, by the way?</p>
<p>@frozens I agree, the KHC essay is difficult to do well. It seems just like an SAT prompt. </p>
<p>^ Many times.</p>
<p>@Karabekian: My thoughts exactly! It probably didn’t help that I procrastinated so long on doing it, haha. I first looked at the prompt during break (oops!) Are you applying to BU? </p>
<p>@hezekiel I agree. I was frustrated with my Harvard supplement for about two months before I finally hit upon my topic.</p>
<p>@PcollegegirlP I think it’s pretty much the same thing! However, it wasn’t too much effort getting the access code for the account, so I just went ahead and did it. 64?! Wow…</p>
<p>@frozens Yes! The Stanford supplement was actually really fun to do. I loved the questions. And once I had completed the Stanford supplement, none of the other supplements seemed difficult anymore, haha. </p>
<p>@Karabekian I have. It’s a really nice city, but driving is a nightmare.</p>
<p>Speaking of long supplements, both WUSTL and Vanderbilt seem innocuous at first sight with no essays on Commonapp, but if you are applying for merit scholarships, you suddenly have multiple essays of 500 words.</p>
<p>@calliemoon11 I had decided upon my Commonapp essay topic way back in my junior year. Wrote 100 words too, but struggled for 5 months to continue further. Finally, just before my senior year, sat down and wrote my heart out for 1 hour. Done. :P</p>
<p>@calliemoon11 I’ll check it out 
Yes, 64 , I know wow…
Pfff someone advised me not to submit my supplement essay for Harvard… Now I’m regretting it…
Never mind… Hopefully all I’ve submitted is good enough… 
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<p>@skieurope, just curious, are you an applicant? </p>
<p>^Yes; I mentioned it a few of times in the previous 101 pages 
@Karabekian </p>
<p>@hezekiel I struggled with essays all through the summer and into the school year, only to end up producing the essay I wanted in an hour. So I understand you (It was so frustrating!)</p>
<p>the essay that i wanted wrote itself last night. i’m practically in pieces because I can’t submit it.
oh well…</p>
<p>@jalebigirl yeah that happened to me as well … but I wouldn’t let it bother you, I’m sure the first one was good, and you could send in bits of this other essay as a personal update if it is something of that nature.</p>
<p>@skieurope forgive me. You must be the site’s youngest moderator then, haha!</p>
<p>@Karabekian I think you’re right.</p>
<p>@karbekian I have visited Boston multiple times, i love it! were you able to do an overnight?</p>
<p>@PcollegegirlP you are so brave to submit an app with no supplement! When I told my counselor I didn’t think I was going to submit one because I couldn’t think of anything fantastic enough to write an entire new essay on, he almost choked to death.
So then I wrote one. It definitely took weeks worth of staring at a blank computer screen, so I hope it was worth it.
And more power to you if you are accepted without it!!! </p>
<p>I forgot to list indoor track (3 years) and outdoor track (2 years) under my activities on the Common App. Should I email Harvard about this? Without indoor and outdoor track, I have absolutely no athletic activities (although I’m not really the athletic type). </p>
<p>I wrote a 250 word essay on a music album for my optional essay…</p>
<p>I forgot like 4 of my activities so I just sent harvard an expanded resume @NinetyNeinProbs </p>