College Applications Introducing AppView: College Application Essay Questions and Deadlines at Your Fingertips Written by Elyse Krantzon September 15th, 2017 I became interested in the college admissions process after serving as a student tour guide in the admissions office of my alma mater. After graduating, I accepted an admissions counseling position at Bennington College in Vermont where I evaluated applications and reviewed art portfolios from students across the country. Three years later, after pursuing my master's degree in New York City, I joined the admissions staff at Barnard College where I served as a senior admissions officer. At Barnard, I directed Long Island and Boston recruitment in addition to managing the College's alumnae interview program, coordinating admissions statistics, and editing various college publications. Having also served as an alumni interviewer for Dartmouth College and visited over 75 colleges, I feel especially well-equipped to help students prepare for admission interviews and campus tours. Learn More About Elyse college applications, deadlines, essays, Here’s a quick quiz for you. Let’s say that you’re applying to five colleges using the Common Application. Each college requires one main personal statement along with two additional supplemental essays. And let’s say you’re also applying to one college on the Coalition Application, one college on the University of California application, one college on the ApplyTexas application, and one college that uses its own school-specific application. How many essays will you need to write in all? Whether you’re applying to 1, 10, or 20 colleges, identifying essay questions is often the first step to completing your college applications. But with so many application platforms available today, how can you be sure that you’ve located all of the essays you’ll be required to write? Introducing AppView™ by College Coach®, which lets students easily see the essay questions and application deadlines for all of their favorite* schools. Simply click the AppView link on the College Coach homepage and enter the names of up to five colleges. You will then receive an email from College Coach listing the 2017-18 essay prompts and deadlines for each of those schools. (Feel free to repeat this process as many times as you’d like!) In addition to all required essay questions, AppView also highlights optional essays as well as select honors and/or scholarship essay questions. And unlike some hard-to-find essay questions on the Common App, which may appear only after you’ve selected a particular term of study or academic major, all of a college’s essay questions on AppView are visible, allowing students to see all possible essay prompts at a single glance. Curious about the answer to the quiz above? Like so many questions about college admissions, the answer is: it depends! Some colleges ask identical supplemental essay questions, which may lower your overall essay count. (Fifteen colleges featured on AppView—including Harvard, Loyola University Maryland, and Purdue—ask students to “please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences.”) The easiest way to compare all of your essay requirements and spot potential overlaps is to use AppView. So check it out now, and enjoy! * Although College Coach students have been accepted to more than 600 different colleges and universities around the world, we’ve narrowed down that list to the 225 most popular schools for AppView. Don’t see your favorite school included on AppView? Simply email us at appview@getintocollege.com and we’d be happy to add it for you. Related Resources Read | Posted on November 15th, 2023 How to Reduce the Cost of Applying to College Read | Posted on October 12th, 2023 Financial Implications of Applying Early Decision Read | Posted on October 6th, 2023 What are the Different College Admissions Deadline Types?
