sophianecco,

Columbia

B.A., Visual Arts

artist, activist, fashion nerd, kook, and pun queen. never thought I'd get in!

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Hometown Cincinnati, Ohio

GenderFemale

EthnicityWhite Non-Hispanic

Class of2023
First Gen College StudentNo

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Columbia University (New York, NY)

Applied for a B.A. in Visual Arts

Accepted and Enrolled Legacy: No

School Specific Essays

Personal Statement

588 Words

Art/acting/singing, Creative personal story, Extracurricular passion, Feeling out of place, Interest in fine arts, Study/travel abroad

Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

Alone, in the rain, in Rodin’s Paris garden, fatigue tugged at my brain and eyelids; I hadn’t slept well in months, decoding weeks of pre-calc missed during district and regional mock trial competitions, college tours, and coordinating my first gallery sticker sales. Divorce strained my single dad, a West Virginian entrepreneur who escaped from Appalachian dirt. I was getting porky, though I ate little some days. Strength in solitude was my lifestyle - I didn’t crave the...

Personal Statement

371 Words

Academic achievement, Anxiety before a competition, Extracurricular passion, Failure experience, One moment that changed you

Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes or contributed to group efforts over time.

Junior year, I was a Mock Trial coach. With just two more points in the Regional competition, my team would have advanced to State, beating the undefeated State Champions, who placed 5th internationally last year. Sounds crazy, but our coach quit before the first practice. We wrongly expected consistency from her replacement. I decided to hold practice unsupervised when we hadn’t met in two weeks. We devised a competition strategy, pairing vets with rookies. Each vet drilled their mentee...

Personal Statement

406 Words

Art/acting/singing, Career aspirations, Extracurricular passion, Interest in fine arts, Leadership experience

Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side.

“I’m the CEO of Allo. I sell stickers with my art on them. Each sticker sold feeds five kids. . . . Since ninth grade. . . . I am sixteen, yes.” I founded Allo to help the community in a high-impact, scalable way. While there are many ways to clock in volunteer hours, Allo is uniquely me. Social justice has been at the Necco dinner table for three generations: My grandparents ran and taught at deaf and special needs schools. Dad founded a foster...

Personal Statement

337 Words

Career aspirations, Feeling out of place, Interest in fine arts, Overcoming depression, Story central to identity

What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that talent over time?

You must know, I am an artist. Fear not a cheesy diatribe about my process – I could care less about melodramatically creating life by swirling a brush. Snoozeville! Rather than some hobby, art is the outlook I bring to the world. You can see it on my on my eyelids and my tidy planner, on my trademark glossy lips that I use to open court, and in my fiery determination. In Cincinnati, the impenetrable Chrome-Dome I call home, I stick...

Personal Statement

371 Words

Challenged a belief, Controversial topic, Development of personal values, Extracurricular passion, Leadership experience

What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?

“If not you, who? If not now, when?” - Hillel The Elder This quote is plastered on a giant wall at Cincinnati’s Underground Railroad museum. When I first became involved in the common sense gun safety movement, I was hesitant to dedicate much time. After all, junior year grades most heavily determine my future. I was stacked with weeks of pre-calc missed during district and regional mock trial competitions, college tours, and coordinating my first gallery sticker sales, on...