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TYPICAL ESSAY QUESTIONS

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 Describe your most significant personal experience. How has it influenced you?

 Identify and discuss a problem facing your generation.

 What have you read that has had a special significance to you? Explain why.

 Describe a person or experience of particular importance to you.

 Describe the reasons that influenced you in selecting your intended major field of study.

 If you could travel through time and interview a prominent figure in the arts, politics, religion or science, whom would you choose and why?

 Describe your experience in living in a racially, culturally or ethnically diverse environment; what do you expect to need to know to live successfully in the multi-cultural society of the future?

 Make up a question, state it clearly and answer it. Feel free to use your imagination, recognizing that those who read it will not mind being entertained.

 Indicate what you consider your best qualities to be and describe how your college education will be of assistance to you in sharing these qualities and your accomplishments with others.

 Evaluate a significant experience, achievement or risk that you have taken and its impact on you.

 Indicate a person, character in fiction, a historical figure or a creative work (as in art, music, etc.) that has had a significant influence on you and describe that influence.

 Why do you want to spend two to six years of your life at a particular college, graduate school or professional school? How is the degree necessary to the fulfillment of your goals?

 Use this space to let us know something about you that we might not learn from the rest of your application.

 How have you grown and developed over the four years of your high school career?

 What is the biggest risk you have ever taken? Explain why you took it and what you learned afterward.

 Discuss some issue of personal, local or national concern and why it is important to you.

 Write about your favorite book or film and tell why it has influenced you.

 Relate the most humorous experience in your life.

 You have just finished writing your 300-page autobiography. Please submit page 217.

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