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CUNY Application Prompts 2021 are Out!

The CUNY Macaulay Honors College Essay prompts are now available.  If you will apply next fall, you may want to get drafts going over the summer; this fall the Macaulay deadline will be earlier than in the past (November 16).

You can read about the full application process here.

OUR ESSAY PROMPTS HAVE BEEN POSTED!

The application for the Macaulay Class of 2026 won't open until September 1, but the prompts are available now for rising seniors.

As part of the Macaulay application to the class of 2026, we require that studemts submit  two pieces of writing: an ESSAY and a second WRITING SAMPLE . Each should be around 500 words long. Word counts may be slightly over or under, within reason.

ESSAY PROMPT:  Describe an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

WRITING SAMPLE PROMPT: Write on a topic of your choice. It may be something you have already written, something that addressed a different prompt (such as another college essay or academic assignment), or may be an essay of your own design.

In selecting your writing sample, students should consider that:

  • Readers will not be specialists in any specific field, submissions of a technical nature are discouraged
  • Submissions can be an excerpt from a larger text, but it should be self-contained, with a reasonably clear beginning, middle, and end
  • Students are encouraged to be ambitious in their writing, but also aware of word count limitations

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(CUNY Application) Should I include the prompt of my essay before my essay? Answered

I am applying to CUNY schools through the CUNY application, and when it comes to uploading your essay, there is nothing there on the application site to indicate which prompt you chose to do. So, should I just put the prompt in my essay's doc, right before the essay starts?

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No, they will be able to figure out which prompt you are addressing through your essay if it is clear, concise, and well-written. If they are not able to decipher which prompt you chose, then I think that it is a different problem than the one you are presenting…

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