Application Essay Excerpts

Picture Perfect She’s a year and a few months old and has her whole life ahead of her, but she doesn’t quite know that, not really. All she knows is one second she was asleep and the next she is very much awake...

What sets my heart on fire is not a certain sport or subject, nor is it a certain person or action. I will be the first to say that I’m a strange person. When I love something I latch onto it and, to put it bluntly, obsess. This is what I have done with the TV show Supernatural...

Two years ago, my family and I took a two week tour of Turkey. We travelled everywhere from Istanbul to Antalya and even Troy, which would seem the logical choice for an epiphany, but turned out not to be...

If I were to title my life up to now it would probably be called Mezcla, which is the Spanish word for ‘mix.’ All my life, I’ve been trying to balance being Puerto Rican in a small southern town with mostly Caucasian people...

My first choice major would definitely be Creative Writing because of my passion for the subject. I love the whole process of storytelling, of creating a fictitious world that has the potential, if created correctly, to be completely and illogically real in the reader’s mind...

"And the Seneca Co-Chieftain, Summer 2012 is..." A bead of sweat rolled down my cheek as I clenched my fists in anticipation; my heart pounded as silence engulfed the dining hall. "Proud Thunder, Anna Daccache," Katie's voice echoed...

Almost, almost ... life is full of “almosts.” When I moved to Beijing for a year at the age of five, I almost forgot all my English. When I moved to Singapore the summer before high school, the culture shock almost made me beg my parents: please, let me return to Canada! I almost missed the bus this morning, I almost failed physics freshman year, and I almost finished reading a book last night. Almost, almost, almost...

Departures “That boat represents everything I have worked for over the past fifty years. It is a shining example of our people’s perseverance. It is freedom. Opportunity. Survival. A small 30 foot vessel with a hundred people packed together. I had never been so scared in my life...”..

Playing Chopin’s Raindrop Waltz in B Minor, I am engulfed by the beauty of each chord, the eccentric mixture of sharps and flats. Excitement runs throughout my body as I near crescendos, ending in the highest F, and decrescendos, dipping down to the lowest B...

I, am a goose. Allow me to explain. While you may know me as Michael Li, I have another identity. You see, my Chinese name is 雁翔, ‘flying goose’. I assure you, it sounds much more majestic in Chinese...