Stonehill College supplemental essays
Yes, but every one is optional. Stonehill College prints one supplemental essay in 2026-27 and requires none of them. Common App. Personal statement required (250-650 words).
That is one supplement plus the Common App personal statement: two pieces of writing in all. Early Decision closes December 1, 2026, Early Action closes November 1, 2026 and Early Decision II closes February 1, 2027, with the rest in the table below. The prompts carry this limit: 250 word maximum. Every Stonehill College prompt is printed on this page in full, with its word limit and who has to answer it, checked against the college’s own admissions page.
Deadlines
| Round | Date |
|---|---|
| Early Action II | January 15, 2027 |
| Early Decision | December 1, 2026 |
| Early Action | November 1, 2026 |
| Early Decision II | February 1, 2027 |
| Regular Decision | February 15, 2027 |
Checked against www.stonehill.edu/apply-for-admission/first-year-applicants/apply. Confirm on the college’s own page before you submit.
The essays, 2026-27
Optional · 250 word maximum
Students have many choices in their college search and application process. Please share why you have chosen to consider Stonehill among your possible college options.
Stonehill does not have a separate writing supplement; this optional question lives in the Stonehill member-questions section of the Common Application.
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Your Stonehill College checklist
One supplement, optional. The first deadline, Early Decision, is December 1, 2026.
- Common App personal statementRequired250-650 words
- SupplementOptional250 word maximum
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Getting into Stonehill College
Stonehill College admits 66.3% of applicants. In the federal admissions survey it reports that SAT and ACT scores are neither required nor recommended.
About 7 in 10 applicants are admitted, at a college of 2,528 undergraduates.
US Department of Education, College Scorecard (2026-09-17). Percentiles describe students who enrolled, not everyone admitted.
- Does Stonehill College require the SAT or ACT?
- Not according to the federal admissions survey, where Stonehill College reports that SAT and ACT scores are neither required nor recommended. Read that as "not required" rather than "never looked at": the survey lags real policy by a cycle or more, and some colleges carrying this flag have since brought testing back while others genuinely ignore scores altogether. Check Stonehill College's own admissions page before deciding whether to sit or send a test, and treat that page as the answer where the two disagree. Either way, grades and course load are doing most of the work here.
- What GPA do you need for Stonehill College?
- The honest answer is that the federal data behind this page does not contain one. Colleges report their admit rate and their enrolled students' test scores to the Department of Education; they do not report a GPA distribution, so any site quoting an exact average GPA for Stonehill College is either reading that college's own Common Data Set or estimating. What the reported data does say is that Stonehill College admits 66.3% of applicants, and the more selective a college is, the closer to the top of the class its admitted students sit and the more the strength of your course load counts alongside the number itself.
- How hard is it to get into Stonehill College?
- Stonehill College admits 66.3% of the people who apply, which is about 7 in 10 applicants. Numbers inside the reported range put you in a real position here, and the application itself decides the rest.
What Stonehill College costs after grant aid, by family income, from the same federal data.
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Stonehill College essay questions, answered
- Does Stonehill College have supplemental essays?
- Yes, but every one is optional. Stonehill College prints one supplemental essay in 2026-27 and requires none of them. Every prompt is printed in full on this page. Word limits: 250 word maximum.
- How many essays do you write for Stonehill College in 2026-27?
- One supplement, plus the Common App personal statement.
Schools with similar admit rates
Stonehill College admits 66.3% of applicants. The colleges either side of it in our set by admit rate, most selective first, each with its own prompts and deadlines: University of Vermont (UVM) (65.3%), Chapman University (65.4%), University of Dayton (65.5%), Elon University (66.3%), Lipscomb University (67.7%), Brigham Young University (BYU) (67.8%).