1.

in less than 250 words explain why _____ college is a good fit for you
2.what excites you about being a member of the _______ community
UVA supplement question:

We are a community with quirks, both in language (well welcome you to Grounds, not campus)
and in traditions. Describe one of your quirks and why it is part of who you are.

Elon supplement:

Write a page from your journal or blog that illustrates something you hope to learn if you could
travel to any place in the world on your own. Where would you go and what would you take
from this experience?

University of Maryland supplement:

Write your own question and respond to it. Please be sure to tell us why you think this essay
represents you well.
"What matters to you, and why?"

"The University of Colorado Boulders Flagship 2030 strategic plan promotes exceptional
teaching, research, scholarship, creative works, and service distinguishing us as a premier
university. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive community for all that engages each
member in opportunities for academic excellence, leadership, and a deeper understanding of the
world in which we live. Given the statement above, how do you think you could enrich our
diverse and inclusive community, and what are your hopes for your college experience?"

"What attribute of your personality are you most proud of, and how has it impacted your life so
far? This could be your creativity, effective leadership, sense of humor, integrity, or anything else
you'd like to tell us about."

1. Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences

(Recommended length: 250 words)

2. Beyond your impressive academic credentials and extracurricular accomplishments, what else
makes you unique and colorful? We know nobody fits neatly into 500 words or less, but you can
provide us with some suggestion of the type of person you are. Anything goes! Inspire us,
impress us, or just make us laugh. Think of this optional opportunity as show and tell by proxy
and with an attitude.

Essay Question Number 1:

"Alas, said the mouse, the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was
so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far
away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last
chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into. You only need to
change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
Imagine that you are the mouse in this scenario from Kafkas A little fable (c. 1920). You are
given a moments reprieve to tell the cat what you think of its advice. What do you tell the cat?
Why? How do you (the mouse) view the world/life and how do you think the cats view
compares to yours?

Essay Question Number 2:

In addition to curriculum, grades and activities, Dickinson's Admissions Committee looks for
purpose, potential and self-reflection. Explain why you have chosen to apply to Dickinson and
how your interests, talents and goals fit with Dickinson's distinctive character.

Essay Question Number 3:

Honesty is the best policy, but honesty wont get your friend free birthday cake at the diner.
Does society require constant honesty? Why is it (or why is it not) problematic to shift the truth
in ones favor, even if the lie is seemingly harmless to others? If we can be conveniently
honest, what other virtues might we take more lightly? University of Chicago

Essay Question Number 4:

Imagine looking through a window at any environment that is particularly significant to you.
Reflect on the scene, paying close attention to the relation between what you are seeing and why
it is meaningful to you. [Williams College]

1. From David McCullough's recent commencement address at BC: Facts alone are never
enough. Facts rarely if ever have any soul. In writing or trying to understand history one may
have all manner of 'data,' and miss the point. One can have all the facts and miss the truth. It can
be like the old piano teacher's lament to her student, 'I hear all the notes, but I hear no music.
Tell us about a time you had all of the facts but missed the meaning.
2. In his novel, Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann writes: We seldom know what we're
hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will
never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really
find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant. Tell us about
something you heard or experienced for the first time and how the years since have affected your
perception of that moment.

3. For applicants to Columbia College, please tell us what from your current and past
experiences (either academic or personal) attracts you specifically to the field or fields of study
that you noted in the Member Questions section. If you are currently undecided, please write
about any field or fields in which you may have an interest at this time. (300 words or less)

1) In addition to the essay you have written for the Common Application, please select one of the
following themes and write an essay of about 500 words in response. Please do not repeat, in full
or in part, the essay you wrote for the Common Application.

Selected Theme: Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three
years as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your
values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation, title and author at the
beginning of your essay.

2) In this essay, please reflect on something you would like us to know about you that we might
not learn from the rest of your application, or on something about which you would like to say
more. You may write about anythingfrom personal experiences or interests to intellectual
pursuits. (Please answer in 500 words or less.) Before you begin, we encourage you to go to
http://admissions.yale.edu/essay where you will find helpful advice.

3) Emblazoned on our University Seal is a flaming heart which symbolizes St. Augustine's
passionate search to know God and love others. What sets your heart on fire?

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill:

1. Most of us have one or more personality quirks. Explain one of yours and what it says about
you.
2. What do you hope to find over the rainbow?
3. Why do you do what you do?
4. If you could travel anywhere in time or space, either real or imagined, where would you go
and why?
5. Tell us about a time when your curiosity led you someplace you werent expecting to go.

University of Virginia :
What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or
challenged you, and in what way?

Whats your favorite word and why?

The Honor Code at U.Va. states that students will not lie, cheat, or steal. This strengthens our
Community of Trust. What would you add to the Honor Code and why?

In 2006, graduate student Robert Stilling discovered an unpublished poem by Robert Frost
while doing research in U.Va.s Small Collections Library. Where will your Stilling moment be
in college?

Davidson:
Why Davidson? (250-300 Suggested Word Limit)
List the books you have read in the past year for school or leisure. Place an asterisk by those
books required for classes you have taken
Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences

University of Southern California:

In a short paragraph, please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work
experiences Describe your academic interests and how you plan to pursue them at USC.
Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.

Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your
roommate -- and us -- know you better. (250 word limit.)

Stanford students possess an intellectual vitality. Reflect on an idea or experience that has been
important to your intellectual development. (250 word limit.)

Imagine that you are backpacking through a country you have never been to before. You are
interested in engaging with the local population and your backpack includes three items that will
help them learn about your family and culture. What are those three items and how do they
represent your background?

Theres a difference between being busy and being engaged. Lafayette comes alive each day with
the energy of students who are deeply engaged in their academic, co-curricular and
extracurricular explorations. In response to the second prompt, keep it simple choose one
activity and add depth to our understanding of your involvement.

1.There is a Quaker saying: Let your life speak. Describe the environment in which you were
raised your family, home, neighborhood or community and how it influenced the person you
are today. (Tufts College)

In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose a question of your own. If your prompt is original and
thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. Draw on your best qualities
as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen; take a
little risk, and have fun
4. According to author Walker Percy, At regular intervals, poetry students should find dogfish
on their desks and biology students should find Shakespeare sonnets in their dissecting trays.
Explain why you agree or disagree. (150 words or fewer)

1.Why NYU?
2. Regardless of whether or not you have an intended major or concentration, please elaborate
on an academic area of interest and how you wish to explore it at NYUs campuses in New York
or Abu Dhabi or at one of our global academic centers around the world. Please share any
activities or experiences you have had that have cultivated your intellectual interests leading you
to choose to study at the NYU campus of your choice
3. What intrigues you? Tell us about one work of art, scientific achievement, piece of literature,
method of communication, or place in the world (a film, book, performance, website, event,
location, etc.), and explain its significance to you

Here are my three supplements:

1. Johns Hopkins University

"Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1876 on a spirit of exploration and discovery. As a
result, students can pursue a multi-dimensional undergraduate experience both in and outside of
the classroom. Given the opportunities at Hopkins, please discuss your current interests
academic or extracurricular pursuits, personal passions, summer experiences, etc.and how you
will build upon them here. (300-500 Word limit)."

2. Tufts
"Which aspects of Tufts curriculum or undergraduate experience prompt your application? In
short: Why Tufts? (Suggested length is 50-100 words.)"

3. Emory University
"Imagine you are a professor, charged with teaching a new course. Emory University offers over
1,000 courses in a wide range of academic subjects.
You are free to choose whatever subject you want. What class would you create? What would
you hope students would leave your class having learned?
(Dont forget to include your class title!) (250 word limit)"

Reflecting on your own interests and experiences, please comment on one of the following:
1. Intellectual engagement
2. The Common Good
3. Connection to place

Describe which single activity listed in the Activity section of your Common Application
represents your most meaningful commitment and why.

Using the quotation below as a starting point, reflect on the role that culture plays in your life.
Culture is what presents us with the kinds of valuable things that can fill a life. And insofar as
we can recognize the value in those things and make them part of our lives, our lives are
meaningful.

1) In a famous quote by Jos Ortega y Gasset, the Spanish philosopher proclaims, "Yo soy yo y
mi circunstancia" (1914). Jos Quintans, master of the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division at
the University of Chicago, sees it another way: "Yo soy yo y mi microbioma" (2012). You are
you and your..?
2)As Georgetown is a diverse community, the Admissions Committee would like to know more
about you in your own words. Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you
feel best describes you.
3)In no more than two paragraphs, please address one of the following prompts: 1) Picture your
journey in the American University community from freshman year to graduation day. Describe
the person you hope to become on this journey. OR 2) American University consistently ranks as
a school with the most politically active students in the nation, where students engage in a
variety of local, national, and global issues. Discuss an issue of importance to you and how you
hope to become further involved with it as a member of the American University community

1.) Dartmouth: Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work
experiences in the space below. (250 words max)
Please tell us how you have spent the last two summers (or vacations between school years),
including any jobs you have held, if not already detailed on the Common Application. (About
150 words)

1. Tell us about a person who has influenced you in a significant way.

2. Using the statement below as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped
you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Princeton in the
Nations Service was the title of a speech given by Woodrow Wilson on the 150th anniversary
of the University. It became the unofficial Princeton motto and was expanded for the Universitys
250th anniversary to Princeton in the nations service and in the service of all nations. Woodrow Wilson, Princeton Class of 1879, served on the faculty and was Princetons president
from 19021910.
( )3. Using the quotation below as a starting point, reflect on the role that culture plays in your
life. Culture is what presents us with the kinds of valuable things that can fill a life. And insofar
as we can recognize the value in those things and make them part of our lives, our lives are
meaningful. - Gideon Rosen, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, chair of the Council of the
Humanities and director of the Program in Humanistic Studies, Princeton University.

( )4. Tell us how you would address the questions raised by the quotation below, or reflect upon
an experience you have had that was relevant to these questions. "How can we unlearn the
practices of inequality? In other words, how do we increase our capacities not just to act without
racism but to actively promote racial equality?" - Imani Perry, Professor, Center for African
American Studies, and Faculty Associate, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton
University.
1.
Describe the world you come from-- for example, your family, community or school-and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.
2.
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is
important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it
relate to the person you are?

1. What do you hope to find over the rainbow? (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
2. To tweet or not to tweet? (University of Virginia) 3. Some say social media is
superficial, with no room for expressing deep or complex ideas. We challenge you to defy
these skeptics by describing yourself as fully and accurately as possible in the 140character limit of a tweet. (Wake Forest University)
-What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or
challenged you, and in what way? (from UVA)
- We are a community with quirks, both in language (well welcome you to Grounds, not
campus) and in traditions. Describe one of your quirks and why it is part of who you are. (Also
from UVA) -The quality of Rice's academic life and the Residential College System are heavily
influenced by the unique life experiences and cultural traditions each student brings. What
personal perspective do you feel that you will contribute to life at Rice? (500 word limit) (from,
you guessed it, Rice)

1) Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you
have faced and its impact on you.

2) Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to
you.

3) Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.