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Let me give you an example. If you apply to Harvard, the crowd favorite, you can tell them that you love them because they are a high-ranking, prestigious university. You can tell them they have myriad classes to choose from, offer a wonderful liberal arts education and many extracurriculars like debating and Model UN that extend your passions. You can tell them you want to take advantage of unique research opportunities and meet inspiring, diverse classmates.

But that would be a terrible essay.

Go back and read that last paragraph. Scratch out Harvard and you could say the same thing about Yale or Princeton or any other reasonable university. That is the test you have to do. If a single sentence of your supplementary essay can apply to another university, try again—it probably isn't specific enough. I've sent more than 50 students to Harvard alone and any opportunity we have to showcase their specific interests in Harvard, we focus on communicating what Harvard, as a magnificent institution of learning, offers uniquely as Harvard.