The Common Application has announced that it will provide a space for both students and counselors to address COVID-19's and any other natural disaster's impact on the student and schools during the next college application cycle. This will be an optional question with 250 words as its limit. This optional essay will not substitute any of the current seven prompt questions which have a 650 word limit.
For the entire announcement, please read the following link: https://www.commonapp.org/blog/COVID-19-question-common-app
