Scholarships360 Essay Prompt Database

College essays are an important part of the admissions process. According to a survey of admissions professionals by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, after grades and test scores, essays were the next most important factor for admissions decisions. With many colleges going test-optional, the importance of essays will continue to rise as colleges look for other ways to assess students. On top of this, essays can be an important part of the merit scholarship process at many colleges.

To help students write the best possible college essays, we’ve created guides that will walk you through every step of the essay writing process. Feel free to use the above search tool or browse all of our essays guides in alphabetical order below:

College Supplemental Essay Guides

• American University (Washington, DC)
• Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Babson College (Wellesley, MA)
• Barnard College (New York, NY)
• Baylor University (Waco, TX)
• Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
• Boston University (Boston, MA)
• Brandeis University (Waltham, PA)
• Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
• California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
• University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)
• Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Cornell University (Ithaca,NY)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
• Duke University (Durham, NC)
• Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
• Fordham University (Bronx, NY)
• George Washington University (Washington, DC)
• Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
• Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
• Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
• Howard University (Washington, DC)
• University of Illinois (Urbana-Campaign, IL)
• Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
• Lafayette University (Easton, PA)
• Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
• Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)
• Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, MA)
• University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Ohio University (Athens, OH)
• Pepperdine University (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• Pennsylvania State University (Throughout PA)
• Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
• Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
• Reed College (Portland, OR)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
• Rice University (Houston, TX)
• University of Richmond (Richmond, VA)
• University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
• Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
• University of San Diego (San Diego, CA)
• University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
• Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
• Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
• University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
• Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
• Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
• Texas A&M University (Brazos County, TX)
• University of Texas – Austin (Austin, TX)
• Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
• Tufts University (Middlesex County, MA)
• Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
• Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Villanova University (Villanova, PA)
• Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC)
• Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
• Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
• College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
• Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)
• Yale University (New Haven)