Application Essay Excerpts

I will always remember my eleventh grade AP Art History teacher. I will not remember her because of what she taught, but rather how she taught...

I had not always loved the humanities. In fact, my passion has always been with the sciences. Ever since I was four, I wanted to become a doctor. In school, I hungered to learn everything from animals to planets...

I had not always loved the humanities. In fact, my passion has always been with the sciences. Ever since I was four, I wanted to become a doctor. In school, I hungered to learn everything from animals to planets...

I have always found myself stuck in the middle when it comes to academic interests. Simply put, I love both the sciences and the language arts...

People claim that high school is the most memorable time of one’s life. However, the past four years have hardly been memorable; in fact, they have been the haziest years yet...

For the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time playing jazz with two friends, a bassist and an alto sax player. The three of us have played together in various school-affiliated bands for the majority of our musical lives – I first started writing music with the bassist in 6th grade – but it wasn’t until a year ago that we organized ourselves into an official group. We call ourselves Occupation (Sound)...

When I was 14 years old, a friend of my dad’s offered me the opportunity to stay for six weeks in northern Uganda, volunteering at a local school. There are many aspects of my time in Gulu, a city of 250,000 or so, that have greatly affected me..

Charlotte Bronte is often lauded for creating in Jane Eyre one of the first strong, independent female characters in English literature, and for paving the way for an expansion of women’s rights in Victorian England..

At age nine, it was difficult to absolutely say that my father's death was the single hardest thing I had experienced in my life. I was too young to have already been tainted by misfortune, but old enough to know something was going to change. I was sad, but not plagued with mourning...

What point of view to Rice will I bring?What perspective can I share, both unique and intriguing? Well, my response to this query I must admitWill prove rather hard to actually submit..