CAE vs Personal Statement: What’s the Difference?
CAE vs Personal Statement sounds like a comparison between two completely different essays. In US college admissions, it often isn’t. The Common App Essay (CAE) is the main personal essay you submit through the Common Application. Meanwhile, “personal statement” is a broader term that colleges, counselors and students at times use for the same kind […]
A Princeton Essay About Beatboxing? Here’s Why It Worked
Princeton essay examples often sound like they should be grand, polished, and impossibly impressive. A championship sports injury. A leadership story with a perfect lesson at the end. But one student who got into Princeton wrote his Common App essay about something much stranger and more memorable: beatboxing. Not just beatboxing as a hobby. Beatboxing […]
Common App Essay Mistakes Indian Students Should Avoid
Every year, Indian students with near-perfect grades, strong test scores, and impressive extracurriculars get rejected from their dream US universities and in many cases, the essay is why. The Common App personal statement is 650 words. It’s one of the few places in your application where you get to be a person, not a profile […]