r/CollegeEssays↗
College Essays
A subreddit dedicated to asking questions and sharing resources about college application essays in all their many forms. Discussion about common app, UC essays, supplemental, scholarships, extracurricular sections, and more are welcome. Always remember the human!
29k subscribers568 posts / mo in Sep 2026477 authors / mosince 2014
r/CollegeEssays has 29k members (+55% over the last 12 months). It gets about 568 posts a month from 477 people. Top topics: Essay Writing Challenges, Yale Admissions & Interviews and College Years.
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- Essay Writing Challenges63%
- Yale Admissions & Interviews1.0%
- College Years1.0%
- AI in Education0.8%
- College Applicationluck0.6%
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- Collegeessayguy
- Medium
- Originality
- Substack
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