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

This personal essay helps us become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

It will also demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself.
Suggested Essay Topic Options:

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

• Discuss some issue of personal, locaL, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

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

Describe a character in fiction, a historicaL figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.

• A range of academic interests, personaL perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educationaL mix. Given your personal. background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.