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How to Write the Carnegie Mellon Supplemental Essays

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Carnegie Mellon University has just two required supplemental essays, one long and one short. You’ll also find two optional prompts that allow students to explain educational interruptions and discuss their CMU admission interview, if they had one.

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November 14, 2017by Emily Toffelmire

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