Common Application Essay Prompts 2011-2012
1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Topic of your choice.
It was a day like any other. I woke up at the usual 6:15 a.m. to get ready for a day at school. But this day I wouldn’t make it to my destination, for fate had other plans in mind. As I drove down the freeway toward my high school, I saw a brilliant flash of light out of the corner of my eye, and before I knew it a massive shockwave threw me into the divider. As I regained consciousness, I got out of my ruined vehicle and looked for the car that hit me. But there wasn’t another car; instead there was a space ship full of alien space pirates.
ReplyDeleteMy uncle Derrick played football at Purdue and he has been a big influence on me for a very long time. When he was younger, he was not the biggest kid on the team. He started on offense but he was not as big of a factor as some of the other kids were. When he began middle school, he had grown a little bit but not enough to make a huge impact. However, when he started high school, he grew a large amount. He grew approximately 5 to 6 inches and gained weight from lifting weights almost every day.
ReplyDeleteAt one point in my life, I thought that my fingers were nearly about to fall off. I was starting to regret that decision last year, a change was going to be made. I picked up my saxophone and played it for the first time in eleven months, I missed that feeling; the feeling of that kind of joy. Since I picked up the sax again I have been a lot happier.
ReplyDeleteIn the brightly lit dining room in my grandparent's house, my grandma and I were sitting calmly piecing a puzzle together. We sat there for a little over an hour putting together that 1,500-piece puzzle and when we finished we sat back and admired our hard work.
ReplyDelete‘Take him to the outside,’ I thought, I repeated Luke’s words in my head, ‘Make him think he can go wide on you then take it away.’ I was in Quebec, Ontario, Canada playing hockey for the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets, it was a tied game in the third period. Two forwards from the other team were coming down the ice and my trusty defense partner and I were the only two keeping them from scoring. I kept thinking about what Luke had told me what to do and it was working perfectly. The forward from the other team took the puck wide and just like Luke told me I closed in on him and executed a perfect hit. I took the puck from him and passed the puck to a teammate and got off the ice.
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