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Hunter College | CUNY Hunter’s 2023-24 Essay Prompts

Select-a-prompt essay.

An essay of 500 words or less is required along with your CUNY Admission Application to Hunter College. Review the essay topics below.

Tell us something meaningful about yourself that is not reflected in your application. You may choose to speak about your interests, aspirations and/or background.

It is often said that the road to success is paved with setbacks. Tell us about a time you faced a challenge or obstacle. What did you learn from it, and how did it contribute to your success?

Share an essay on any topic. You may use an essay that you have previously written or one that discusses a topic of your choice.

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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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  1. Application Review

    CUNY School of Medicine: 95.0 ——-College of Staten Island 3: 88.3: 72.9: Hunter College: 92.7: 85.3: John Jay College of Criminal Justice: 89.4: 80.1: Lehman College: 89.5: ... You may submit one of three essay topics as part of your freshman application to Baruch (essay is recommended), Hunter or Queens:

  2. Apply to CUNY

    If you are applying to Baruch College, Hunter College or Queens College, use the essay topics below. Baruch College recommends all freshman applicants to submit an essay. Hunter College and Queens College require an essay. Tell us something meaningful about yourself that is not reflected in your application.

  3. CUNY Queens College's 2023-24 Essay Prompts

    Applying to CUNY Queens College and trying to find all the correct essay prompts for 2023-24? Find them here, along with free guidance on how to write the essays. ... Share an essay on any topic. You may use an essay that you have previously written or one that discusses a topic of your choice. Read our essay guide to get started. Submit your ...

  4. Hunter College

    Select-A-Prompt Essay. Required. 500 Words. An essay of 500 words or less is required along with your CUNY Admission Application to Hunter College. Review the essay topics below.

  5. The Researched Essay

    Your Researched Essay must include 4-7 sources comprised of the following: 1-2 scholarly sources specific to your topic that you locate. This can take the form of a peer-reviewed academic research article, a chapter in a scholarly book, a scholarly website (.edu), or reference work (e.g., encyclopedia). 2-3 non-scholarly sources.

  6. An Inquiry-Based Research Essay

    Essay #2: An Inquiry-Based Research Essay on the Subject of Your Choice. Assignment Description. For this assignment, you will write a 8-10 page (2,000-2,500 words) research essay. The objective in developing this inquiry-based research essay is probably not like other research essays with which you may be familiar.In an inquiry-based essay, the development of a research question is the ...

  7. PDF Guidelines for the Writing Sample

    1. You may want to explore a topic that is related to the concentration you would like to pursue in the MALS program. 2. If you have an idea for a thesis topic, you might want to write an essay that explores one or two of the questions you hope to pose. 3. Is there an issue that you would like to explore that is the reason you are interested in the

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    CUNY Application Prompts 2021 are Out! By based on College Office emails. 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 ...

  9. Question about what I should use for my CUNY essay

    Share an essay on any topic. You may use an essay that you have previously written or one that discusses a topic of your choice. I'm thinking of doing prompt 3, and was wondering if I should just use my common app essay for it (CUNY doesn't use common app, and my common app essay was the prompt where you can write about anything).

  10. Advice for Writing Personal Statements

    Essays should: 1. engage readers and clearly demonstrate what makes you a unique candidate; 2. be clear and concise; 3. express a vibrant and confident tone; and 4. provide a balanced discussion of your past experience with an explanation of your goals, plans, and aspirations. Consider some of the following to begin writing the personal statement.

  11. Sample Writing Prompts

    Sample Writing Prompts. The Make-an-Argument prompt presents an opinion on an issue and asks the students to address the issue from any perspective they wish, so long as they provide relevant reasons and examples to explain and support their views on topics such as: Government funding would be better spent on preventing crime than in dealing ...

  12. Self-Assessment Essay

    The topic we chose was light pollution on birds. In this assignment, I was able to accomplish multiple of the course learning outcomes. ... It was easy to write an essay about our topic, but finding ways to make it reach the public audience (CCNY students) was a little harder. ... Please email from your CUNY email address if possible. Or visit ...

  13. Topics & Search Strategies

    This image visualizes narrowing a topic as starting with all possible topics and choosing narrower and narrower subsets until you have a specific enough topic to form a research question. Further reading on narrowing a topic can be found in the section Narrowing A Topic from this ebook, Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research ...

  14. Assignments

    Provide the topic sentences of your body paragraphs. End with your thesis or overarching argument - this will be the answer to the question of what the poet is asking us to think differently about and perhaps why. Body paragraphs: Provide textual evidence to illustrate your argument. Introduce and contextualize quotes.

  15. Self Assessment Essay

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  16. Researched Essay

    Cover letter. In my essay, I dive into the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence, discussing its rapid progress and the significant impact it holds for our future. I explore how AI is transforming various sectors, from healthcare and finance to education and entertainment, and how it's fundamentally changing the way we live and work.

  17. Reflection Essay

    Reflection Essay. Hello everyone, my name is Kevin Wang and I'm a freshman studying at City College. I was born in New York, but lived in China for a while when I was younger. I used to want to major in computer science, but have changed to electrical engineering, as I've always thought being able to create technology like robots and planes ...

  18. Rhetorical Essay Reflection

    When I wrote my essay on how this reflected me, I think it made me surprised to make me feel a little sucessful because I was able to learn these new strategies, terms, and themes or lessons. Throughout the class, having to read and analyze has educated me to become a better writer which I was hoping for.

  19. Self-Reflection Memo for LRA Essay

    From: Sadman Rahin. Date: 2/26/2024. Subject: Self-Reflection of the Lab Report Analysis Essay. My lab report analysis essay successfully compares the strengths and weaknesses of each lab report and upholds the key differences in writing and presentation between them. The lab report analysis essay analyzes three different experiments and ...

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    In Spring 2024, the course will address the challenges of the ongoing public health and social crises, and of the ongoing transition back to face-to-face or hybrid teaching in the 2023-2024 academic year. Foundational topics explored in the course will include classroom community, student-centered and active learning approaches, accessibility ...