College Essay Prompts & Deadlines 2026-27
Supplemental essays, application deadlines, and testing policies for 91 top colleges, verified by the AlphaApply.ai team for the 2026-27 cycle. Click any school for its full prompt list.
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Bowdoin College
- University of Chicago
- University of Pennsylvania
- Duke University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Northwestern University
- California Institute of Technology
- Cornell University
- Brown University
- Dartmouth College
- Hamilton College
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- University of California-Berkeley
- Rice University
- Vanderbilt University
- University of California-Los Angeles
- Washington University in St Louis
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- University of Notre Dame
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Virginia-Main Campus
- University of Southern California
- University of California-San Diego
- The University of Texas at Austin
- University of Florida
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
- University of California-Davis
- New York University
- University of California-Irvine
- Boston College
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tufts University
- University of California-Santa Barbara
- Ohio State University-Main Campus
- Boston University
- University of Maryland-College Park
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- University of Washington-Seattle Campus
- Purdue University-Main Campus
- Northeastern University
- Lehigh University
- University of Georgia
- University of Rochester
- William & Mary
- Wake Forest University
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Florida State University
- Texas A&M University-College Station
- University of California-Merced
- Villanova University
- Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
- George Washington University
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- University of Miami
- Michigan State University
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Brandeis University
- University of Connecticut
- Tulane University of Louisiana
- Indiana University-Bloomington
- Clemson University
- University of California-Riverside
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Southern Methodist University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- University of California-Santa Cruz
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Fordham University
- Arizona State University Campus Immersion
- University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
- George Mason University
- University of Vermont
- University of Mississippi
- The University of Alabama
- Babson College
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