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Essay part of college application changing

Hundreds of thousands of students using the Common Application to apply to college in the next school year will be the first to write those so-important personal essays using new questions designed to highlight diverse life stories.

The much-anticipated changes, announced this week by the nonprofit Common Application Inc., are the first in nearly a decade.

The revamped form launches...

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