What exactly is so time-consuming about college apps.

Saugus
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:41:52 +0000

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Supps are just another essays, maybe two, and redundant Commonapp information.

Essays are capped at 500 words. I understand that they might take several hours to write and then several more to edit, but there is a point where they simply cannot be improved.

Research about colleges should have already been done during junior year or before. Even then, it shouldn’t take that long.

Rec letters? All you do is ask. You don’t have to do anything.

So are most of these people stressing over financial aid and scholarships, and not so much the actual application?