Thank you for all! This is very helpful.
It seems we need to allow ourselves plenty of time to write an essay---sounds like it is not essays in school at all!
Appreciate all of your answers :)
... a lower T14 school (like Duke or Northwestern) and use Columbia ... a couple of months), email Duke/NU and tell them that ... X scholarship from Columbia but Duke/NU is high on your ... offered a larger aid package. Duke and Northwestern should also be ...
Congrats on getting into Chicago! Will you now attempt the the rejection of the rejection letter? http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/03/news/teen-rejects-duke-rejection/
It depends on the content of each essay, but I think it's always good if you can cut down on what you're asking the admissions office to read. If you cover your diversity factors in your PS, you don't need to write a separate DS.
... still waiting for decisions from Duke, Northwestern, and UCLA.
> ... ol' barista job at Starbucks. Duke and Northwestern are also great ... the way a school like Duke/Mich can. WUSTL has fallen ...