FIRST-YEAR WRITING OVERVIEW 2014-15 As part of the application process, many Common Application Member Institutions ask short answer and essay questions to learn more about each applicant. The short answer and/or essay questions can be found in one of two places: on the Member Questions page or within the Writing Supplement. The following is a list of institutions that have short answer and/ or essay questions as part of their First-Year application and where those questions appear. Keep in mind that some short answer and essay questions are required. This means that all applicants are required to provide a response to the question prior to the submission of the application. Some short answer and essay questions are conditional. These conditional questions are required for applicants depending on responses to earlier questions, specific majors, or areas of interest. Lastly, some short answer and essay questions are optional. This means that an applicant may decide whether or not they wish to provide a response to the question. Adelphi University Agnes Scott College Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Albion College Alma College American Jewish University American University Amherst College Arcadia University Assumption College Austin College Babson College Baldwin Wallace University Bard College Berlin Barnard College Bates College Belmont University Bennington College Bentley University Bethany College Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University 07-14
Brown University Bryant University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University California College of the Arts California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Calvin College Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Cedar Crest College Centenary College (Louisiana) Centenary College (NJ) Centre College Chapman University Chatham University Christian Brothers University Christopher Newport University Claremont McKenna College Clark University Coe College Colby-Sawyer College Colgate University College of the Atlantic College of Wooster Colorado College Colorado State University Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell College Cornell University Creighton University Dartmouth College Davidson College Delaware Valley College Denison University DePaul University Dickinson College Dominican University of California 2
Drew University Drexel University Duke University Earlham College Elizabethtown College Elms College Emerson College Emory University Eugene Lang College - The New School Fairfield University Fisk University Flagler College Fontbonne University Franklin and Marshall College Franklin University Switzerland Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Furman University George Fox University Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia State University Gonzaga University Goucher College Green Mountain College Hamilton College Hamline University (MN) Hampshire College Harvard College Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Hawai'i Pacific University Hendrix College Heythrop College, University of London High Point University Hillsdale College Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hofstra University Hult International Business School Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Wesleyan University 3
Immaculata University Institute of International Education (IIE) Ithaca College Jacobs University Bremen John Cabot University in Rome Johns Hopkins University Kalamazoo College Keele University King's College London Knox College La Roche College Lafayette College Lake Erie College Lake Forest College Lasell College Lawrence University Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Linfield College List College The Jewish Theological Seminary Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Maryland Lyndon State College Macalester College Marist College Marlboro College Marquette University Maryville University of St. Louis Massachusetts College Of Pharmacy & Health Sciences McDaniel College Meredith College Miami University (Ohio) Mills College MODUL University Vienna Monmouth University Moravian College Mount Holyoke College Naropa University Nazareth College 4
New Jersey Institute of Technology New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) New York University Newberry College Northland College Northwestern University Northwestern University in Qatar Oberlin College Occidental College Oglethorpe University Otterbein University Pace University Pacific University Oregon Pepperdine University Philadelphia University Pitzer College Pomona College Presbyterian College Prescott College Princeton University Providence College Purdue University Quinnipiac University Reed College Regis College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rice University Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Richmond The American International University in London Riga Business School Roanoke College Roberts Wesleyan College Rowan University Saint Anselm College Saint Mary's College of California Saint Michael's College Saint Peter's University 5
Salem College Salve Regina University Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College School of the Art Institute of Chicago Scripps College Seattle Pacific University Seattle University Seton Hall University Siena College Sierra Nevada College Simmons College Smith College Soka University of America Southern Methodist University Spelman College Springfield College St. Bonaventure University St. Edward's University St. John's College (MD) St. John's College (NM) St. Louis College of Pharmacy St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Olaf College Stanford University Sterling College Stetson University Stevens Institute of Technology Stevenson University Stonehill College SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry SUNY New Paltz SUNY Purchase College SUNY Stony Brook University Swarthmore College Syracuse University Texas Christian University The American University of Paris The College of New Rochelle 6
The College of William & Mary The George Washington University The Ohio State University The University of Oklahoma The University of Tennessee Knoxville Transylvania University Trinity Christian College Tufts University Union College University of Aberdeen University of Birmingham England University of Bristol University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Colorado Boulder University of Connecticut University of Dallas University of Delaware University of Evansville University of Illinois at Chicago University of Kentucky University of Mary Washington University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Massachusetts Dartmouth University of Michigan University of North Carolina Asheville University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Wilmington University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Portland University of Puget Sound University of Redlands University of Rhode Island University of Richmond University of Rochester University of Saint Joseph University of San Diego University of Southern California 7
University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde University of Virginia Ursinus College Vanderbilt University Vassar College Vesalius College Villanova University Virginia Commonwealth University Wabash College Wagner College Wake Forest University Warren Wilson College Washington and Lee University Wellesley College Wesleyan University Westmont College Wheaton College Wheeling Jesuit University Whitman College Whittier College Williams College Wilson College Wofford College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale University Yale-NUS College 8