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Essay guides, by school

Current prompts, what each is really asking, the mistakes to avoid, and annotated examples, for 288 schools across the US and abroad. Find yours.

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United States 199

American Amherst Arkansas ASU Auburn Babson Bard Barnard Bates Baylor Beloit Binghamton Boston College Bowdoin Brandeis Brown BU Bucknell Buffalo Cal Poly SLO Caltech Carleton Carnegie Mellon Case Western Centre Cincinnati Clark Clemson CMC Colby Colgate Colorado College Columbia Conn College Cooper Union Cornell Creighton CU Boulder Dartmouth Davidson Delaware Denison Denver DePaul DePauw Dickinson Drexel Duke Earlham Elon Emerson Emory F&M Fairfield Florida Fordham FSU Furman George Mason Georgetown Georgia Tech Gettysburg Gonzaga Grinnell GW Hamilton Hampshire Harvard Harvey Mudd Haverford Holy Cross Hope Houston Illinois Indiana Iowa JMU Johns Hopkins Kalamazoo Kansas Kentucky Kenyon Knox Lafayette Lawrence Lehigh Lewis & Clark LMU Loyola Chicago Macalester Marquette Maryland Miami Michigan Michigan State Middlebury Minnesota MIT Mizzou Mount Holyoke Nebraska Northeastern Northwestern Notre Dame NYU Oberlin Occidental Ohio State Oklahoma Olin Oregon Oregon State Penn Penn State Pepperdine Pitt Pitzer Pomona Princeton Providence Puget Sound Purdue Reed Rhodes Rice Richmond RIT Rochester RPI Rutgers Santa Clara Sarah Lawrence Scripps SDSU Seton Hall Sewanee Skidmore SLU Smith SMU South Carolina St. Olaf Stanford Stevens Stony Brook Swarthmore Syracuse TCU Tennessee Texas A&M Texas Tech Trinity Trinity (TX) Tufts Tulane UC Berkeley UC Davis UC Irvine UC Merced UC Riverside UC San Diego UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Cruz UCF UChicago UCLA UConn UGA UMass Amherst UNC UNH Union URI USC USD USF UT Austin Utah UVA UVM UW Vanderbilt Vassar Villanova Virginia Tech Wake Forest Washington State WashU Wellesley Wesleyan Whitman Willamette William & Mary Williams Wisconsin Wofford WPI Yale Yeshiva

United Kingdom 35

Aberdeen Bath Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cardiff Durham Edinburgh Exeter Glasgow Imperial KCL Lancaster Leeds Leicester Liverpool Loughborough LSE Manchester Nottingham Oxford Queen Mary Queen's Belfast Reading Sheffield Southampton St Andrews Strathclyde Surrey Sussex Swansea UCL UEA Warwick York

Canada 16

Alberta Calgary Concordia Dalhousie Guelph McGill McMaster Ottawa Queen's SFU Toronto UBC UVic Waterloo Western York U (Canada)

Australia & New Zealand 8

Adelaide ANU Auckland Melbourne Monash Sydney UNSW UQ

Asia 12

CUHK HKU HKUST KAIST Kyoto NTU Singapore NUS Peking SNU Tokyo Tsinghua Yonsei

Europe & Other 18

Amsterdam Bocconi Cape Town Erasmus Rotterdam ESADE ETH Zurich Groningen IE University KU Leuven Leiden Maastricht Sciences Po St. Gallen Trinity Dublin TU Delft TU Munich UCD Utrecht

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