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  1. Writing Supplements: Undergraduate Admissions

    Learn about the new essay requirements for the 2023-24 admissions cycle, including a required short answer and optional short answers. Find out how to repurpose your personal essay or other writing samples for Northwestern's supplemental questions.

  2. How to Write the Northwestern University Essays 2024-2025

    Learn how to write the Northwestern supplemental essays for the 2023-2024 application cycle. Find out what aspects of your background, identity, and goals align with Northwestern's community and culture.

  3. Northwestern University 2024-25 Supplemental Essay Prompt Guide

    Northwestern University 2024-25 Application Essay Question Explanation. The Requirements: 1 required essay of 300 words or fewer; 2 optional essays of 200 words or fewer. Supplemental Essay Type (s): Why, Community, Diversity, Oddball.

  4. Application Materials: Undergraduate Admissions

    Learn about the application components, such as test scores, letters of recommendation, personal statements, and activity chart, for first-year and transfer applicants to Northwestern University. Find answers to common questions and tips for writing effective essays and supplements.

  5. Northwestern Supplemental Essays 2024-25

    Learn how to write winning essays for Northwestern University, an Ivy-equivalent school with a low acceptance rate. Find out the required and optional prompts, tips, and examples for each essay topic.

  6. 6 Northwestern Essay Examples & Why Northwestern (2024)

    Learn how to write a strong "Why Northwestern" essay with 6 examples from admitted students. Find out what Northwestern is looking for and how to showcase your fit and interest in the school.

  7. How to Write Northwestern University Supplemental Essays

    Learn tips and examples for crafting compelling essays for Northwestern University, a popular school near Chicago. Explore the prompts, analysis, and strategies for each essay topic and showcase your fit with the school's values and culture.

  8. Northwestern Supplemental Essays 2023-2024

    The Northwestern University Supplemental Essays for the 2023-2024 admissions cycle include optional short answer questions. These questions allow applicants to showcase different facets of their personality, interests, and experiences. Painting "The Rock" is a tradition at Northwestern that invites all forms of expression—students promote ...

  9. Northwestern Supplemental Essay Prompts

    Northwestern has multiple supplemental essay prompts for applicants to its Class of 2029 (photo credit: Madcoverboy). Northwestern University has released its supplemental essay prompts for the 2024-2025 college admissions cycle. And, unlike over the last several years, Northwestern is asking multiple essay questions of applicants — in ...

  10. How to Ace the 2024-2025 Northwestern Supplemental Essays

    Updated: August 13th, 2024. Northwestern University is a small private, four-year university in Evanston, Illinois. At schools as selective as Northwestern, supplemental essays are a crucial part of students' application in order to stand out from the crowd. The Northwestern supplemental essay is a great way to tell the admissions ...

  11. How to Write the Northwestern Supplemental Essays 2024-2025

    Each essay response is limited to 200 words. 1. Painting "The Rock" is a tradition at Northwestern that invites all forms of expression—students promote campus events or extracurricular groups, support social or activist causes, show their Wildcat spirit (what we call "Purple Pride"), celebrate their culture, and more.

  12. Unpacking the Northwestern University Supplemental Essay 2023-2024

    Learn how to write effective supplemental essays for Northwestern University, a highly specialized and interdisciplinary institution. Find out the required and optional questions, the context and values of the community, and the interdisciplinary culture of the university.

  13. How to Write the Northwestern Supplemental Essay

    Learn how to answer the Northwestern supplemental essay prompts with tips, examples, and analysis. Find out how to showcase your background, identity, and interest in the university and its community.

  14. How to Write the Northwestern University Essays

    Updated for 2024-2025. For the 2024-2025 application cycle, Northwestern has asked applicants to answer one required prompt with a supplemental essay of 300 words or fewer. Then, students have the option to submit one or two supplemental essays from a list of five prompts. Though the second two supplements are optional, we highly encourage ...

  15. Northwestern University Supplemental Essays Guide: 2021-2022

    Learn how to write a compelling Northwestern supplemental essay that showcases your engagement with the university and its offerings. Find tips, examples, and advice from a Harvard graduate and other experts.

  16. Northwestern unveils new supplemental essay prompts

    For the first time in more than a decade, Northwestern's undergraduate admissions application will not feature a version of the perennial "Why Northwestern" essay this 2023-24 admissions cycle.

  17. How to get into Northwestern: Admission Requirements 2023

    Learn about the Northwestern acceptance rate, GPA, SAT, ACT, and essay requirements for 2023. Find out how to apply early decision, early action, or regular decision and what to write in your supplemental essays.

  18. How to Write the Northwestern Supplemental Essays (With Examples)

    Learn how to craft a strong response to the Northwestern supplemental essay prompt, which asks you to show how you would engage with the school's resources, opportunities, and communities. Find tips, examples, and advice from a former admissions officer.

  19. How to Write the Northwestern Supplemental Essays

    The Northwestern supplemental essays provide a distinct challenge compared to the Personal Statement. However, if you start early, choose prompts that complement each other, and do your research, you can move through one of the trickiest parts of the essay writing process with confidence.

  20. Does Northwestern require supplemental essays?

    Yes, Northwestern currently requires a supplemental essay for their application! The primary supplemental essay prompt for Northwestern this year is as follows: "We want to be sure we're considering your application in the context of your personal experiences: What aspects of your background, your identity, or your school, community, and/or household settings have most shaped how you see ...