College prompts

Georgetown

ESSAY QUESTIONS

Responses to two essay prompts are required parts of the Application for Admission: Part Two. Anticipating you would like to know the questions in advance to allow yourself sufficient time to craft your essays, we are happy to provide you with the prompts. (Please note that you must submit a completed Part Two of the application by the deadline; we provide the prompts in advance as a courtesy.)

ESSAY ONE (ALL APPLICANTS):

As Georgetown is a diverse community, the Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describes you.

ESSAY TWO (SPECIFIC TO THE ONE SCHOOL TO WHICH YOU ARE APPLYING):

Applicants to Georgetown College: Please relate your interest in studying at Georgetown University to your goals. How do these thoughts relate to your chosen course of study? (If you are applying to major in the FLL or in a science, please specifically address those interests.)

Applicants to the School of Nursing & Health Studies: Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying health care. Please specifically address your intended major (Health Care Management & Policy, Human Science, International Health, Nursing).

Applicants to the Walsh School of Foreign Service: Briefly discuss a current global issue, indicating why you consider it important and what you suggest should be done to deal with it.

Applicants to the McDonough School of Business: Describe the factors that have influenced your interest in studying business.

USC

USC uses the Common Application, which will ask you to write an essay in response to one of the prompts shown below. Your essay should be approximately 250-500 words and demonstrate your ability to express yourself in a clear, organized manner. This will help admission counselors get to know you and assess how well you might fit in at USC.

• 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.
• Topic of your choice

Washington St.

A. Personal Statement (Required)

The Personal Statement is our best means of getting to know you and your best means of creating a context for your academic performance. When you write your personal statement, tell us about those aspects of your life that are not apparent from your academic record. Tell us about the experiences that don’t show up on your transcript:

• a character-defining moment,
• the cultural awareness you’ve developed,
• a challenge faced,
• a personal hardship or barrier overcome.

Directions

Choose either A or B. Please do not exceed 650 words.

A. Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.

OR

B. Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

Tips

• Some of the best statements are written as personal stories. We welcome your imaginative interpretation.
• You may define experience broadly. For example, in option B, experience could be a meeting with an influential person, a news story that spurred you to action, a family event, or something that might be insignificant to someone else that had particular meaning for you. If you don’t think that any one experience shaped your character, don’t worry. Simply choose an experience that tells us something about you.

B. Short Response (Required)

Directions

Choose one of the following two topics and write a short essay. Please do not exceed 500 words.

1. The University of Washington seeks to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. How would you contribute to this community?
2. Describe an experience of cultural difference or insensitivity you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?

Tip

• You may define culture broadly in Topic #2. For example, it may include ethnicity, customs, values, and ideas, all of which contribute to experiences that students can share with others in college. As you reply to this question, reflect on what you have learned — about yourself and society — from an experience of cultural difference.

C. Additional Information About Yourself or Your Circumstances (Optional)

Directions

Recommended length: Please do not exceed 250 words.

You are not required to write anything in this section, but feel free to include additional information if something has particular significance to you. For example, you may use this space if:

• You are hoping to be placed in a specific major soon
• A personal or professional goal is particularly important to you
• You have experienced personal hardships in attaining your education
• Your activities have been limited because of work or family obligations
• Unusual limitations or opportunities unique to the schools you attended

D. Additional Space (Optional)

Directions

You may use this space if you need to further explain or clarify answers you have given elsewhere in this application, or if you wish to share information that may assist the Office of Admissions. If appropriate, include the application question number to which your comment(s) refer. Please do not exceed 150 words.

E. Journal of Activities & Achievements

Directions

Using the grid provided on the application, identify and describe up to five of your most significant activities and achievements during grades 9-12. Write about why this activity or achievement had meaning for you. Tell us about your highest level of achievement or honor you attained; any responsibilities you had; and the contribution you believe you made to your school, community, or organization. Don’t just describe the activity or achievement: tell us what it says about you.

Recommended length: 100-200 words for each activity.

Your journal should include activities, skills, achievements, or qualities from any of the following categories:

• Leadership in or outside of school-e.g., athletics, student government, cultural clubs, band, scouting, community service, employment
• Activities in which you have worked to better your school or community
• Exceptional achievement in an academic field or artistic pursuit
• Personal endeavors that enrich the mind-e.g., independent research or reading, private dance or music lessons, weekend language/culture school

Format for the Writing SectionA. Personal Statement (Required)

The Personal Statement is our best means of getting to know you and your best means of creating a context for your academic performance. When you write your personal statement, tell us about those aspects of your life that are not apparent from your academic record. Tell us about the experiences that don’t show up on your transcript:

• a character-defining moment,
• the cultural awareness you’ve developed,
• a challenge faced,
• a personal hardship or barrier overcome.

Directions

Choose either A or B. Please do not exceed 650 words.

A. Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.

OR

B. Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

Tips

• Some of the best statements are written as personal stories. We welcome your imaginative interpretation.
• You may define experience broadly. For example, in option B, experience could be a meeting with an influential person, a news story that spurred you to action, a family event, or something that might be insignificant to someone else that had particular meaning for you. If you don’t think that any one experience shaped your character, don’t worry. Simply choose an experience that tells us something about you.

B. Short Response (Required)

Directions

Choose one of the following two topics and write a short essay. Please do not exceed 500 words.

1. The University of Washington seeks to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. How would you contribute to this community?
2. Describe an experience of cultural difference or insensitivity you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?

Tip

• You may define culture broadly in Topic #2. For example, it may include ethnicity, customs, values, and ideas, all of which contribute to experiences that students can share with others in college. As you reply to this question, reflect on what you have learned — about yourself and society — from an experience of cultural difference.

C. Additional Information About Yourself or Your Circumstances (Optional)

Directions

Recommended length: Please do not exceed 250 words.

You are not required to write anything in this section, but feel free to include additional information if something has particular significance to you. For example, you may use this space if:

• You are hoping to be placed in a specific major soon
• A personal or professional goal is particularly important to you
• You have experienced personal hardships in attaining your education
• Your activities have been limited because of work or family obligations
• Unusual limitations or opportunities unique to the schools you attended

D. Additional Space (Optional)

Directions

You may use this space if you need to further explain or clarify answers you have given elsewhere in this application, or if you wish to share information that may assist the Office of Admissions. If appropriate, include the application question number to which your comment(s) refer. Please do not exceed 150 words.

E. Journal of Activities & Achievements

Directions

Using the grid provided on the application, identify and describe up to five of your most significant activities and achievements during grades 9-12. Write about why this activity or achievement had meaning for you. Tell us about your highest level of achievement or honor you attained; any responsibilities you had; and the contribution you believe you made to your school, community, or organization. Don’t just describe the activity or achievement: tell us what it says about you.

Recommended length: 100-200 words for each activity.

Your journal should include activities, skills, achievements, or qualities from any of the following categories:

• Leadership in or outside of school-e.g., athletics, student government, cultural clubs, band, scouting, community service, employment
• Activities in which you have worked to better your school or community
• Exceptional achievement in an academic field or artistic pursuit
• Personal endeavors that enrich the mind-e.g., independent research or reading, private dance or music lessons, weekend language/culture school

Format for the Writing Section

• Content as well as spelling, grammar, and punctuation are considered.
• If you’re applying online, compose in a word processing program such as Word, then copy and paste into the windows provided. Double-spacing, italics, and other formatting will be lost, but this will not affect the evaluation of your application.
• We've observed that most students write a polished formal essay for the Personal Statement yet submit a more casual Short Response and Journal of Activities & Achievements. Give every part of the Writing Section your very best effort, presenting yourself in standard, formal English.
• Proffreed, proofreed, PROOFREAD

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Coming of age: Final essay

After youth church service was done, nighttime has come. By then, it was probably 7:00 P.M. Seeing all the people go in cars and ride away with their bikes, my older brother and 2 cousins wanted to walk home instead. Here in Kalihi? A prison, housings, random shops surround us, and of course the different variety of people we don’t know about. Even though I was 13, I was scared out of my mind. I never know how Kalihi would be dangerous. I agreed to them because I thought to myself they would protect me. Letting my mom know was the right thing to do, but they told me to not worry.

            I was still nervous knowing that this was my first time walking at night here in my own neighborhood.  Although, we decided to walk, they wanted to stay longer. Seeing my brother talk to people, two cousins playing ball with the hoop they had, I felt we weren’t going to walk home but instead get picked up. I told them let’s go, looking at my phone it was 9 P.M.. My phone filled with missed calls by my mom. My brother texted back, lying, and saying we were getting dropped off by friends. I just wanted to go home already.

            As I was going to text my mom what happened, he said finally said all their good byes and we started walking away from church properties. During our walk in Kalihi, hardly any other people were walking at this time. My heart started to beat fast in this dark environment, all of our phones were dead. We had to finish the walk without getting picked up. I have seen couple of people laying down on the floor, people who didn’t look normal, and people doing their own typical things that I see during the day. I knew these people were unfortunate; their lives were harsh, nothing that I could compare to them.

            We tried walking the safest direction, but everywhere was still the same. My cousin said to me to not walk close to him. He was also questioning to me about the clothes  that i am wearing. Thinking in mind why red is bad. We got closer to the street where I live. My brother told me lets cross through KPT. I didn’t event know that place was even dangerous or safe. But I knew not to agree. We continued to walk and I still questioned why red is so bad since I was wearing red shoes and a slipper. One of my cousin told me to walk all bad, jokingly I did. A man across the street suddenly yelled at us saying “you one blood yea, HI!" You think your bad? Come here!” I questioned myself what’s a blood. The man in light blue continued to say these things and started to walk faster towards us. The first person to run was my brother. After that we all started running. I turned around, 2 other guys were with that horrid man, staring and sticking the unnecessary finger at us.

            We ran home as fast as we could. Everything on my mind was “what just happened” Realizing what these people are and what they go through, I don’t want my lifestyle to end up like that. I told my mom the story and the first thing she told me…”Get out of Kalihi and move to the mainland.” After this incident happened, i looked at life a little differently. Seeing all the people i seen, being near them, having to go through this everyday was caused by the choices they made. It was also cause by choices they should not have done. I reflected back at the huge problems that I caused. If I continue to be a person that just don't care, all these problems stack up and affect, my future. Now, I am more aware of what I do and my surroundings. I try do what is best for me, and being on guard in whenever situations are about to happen. 

      

ESSAY

After youth church service was done, nighttime has come. By then, it was probably 7:00 P M. Seeing all the people go in cars and ride away with their bikes, my older brother and 2 cousins wanted to walk home instead. Here in Kalihi? A prison, housings, random shops surround us, and of course the different variety of people we don’t know about. Being a young boy, I was scared out of my mind. I never know how Kalihi would be dangerous. I agreed to them because I thought to myself they would protect me. Letting my mom know was the right thing to do, but they told me to not worry.

            I was still nervous knowing that this was my first time walking at night here in my own neighborhood.  Although, we decided to walk, they wanted to stay longer. Seeing my bro talk to people, two cousins playing ball with the hoop they had, I felt we weren’t going to walk home but instead get picked up. I told them let’s go, looking at my phone it was 9 o clock. My phone filled with missed calls by my mom. My brother texted back, lying, and saying we were getting dropped off by friends. I just wanted to go home already.

            As I was going to text my mom what happened, he said finally said all their good byes and we started walking away from church properties. During our walk in Kalihi, hardly any other people were walking at this time. My heart beating fast in this dark environment, all of our phones were dead. We had to finish the walk without getting picked up. I have seen couple of people laying down on the floor, people who didn’t look normal, and people doing their own typical things that I see during the day. I knew these people were unfortunate; their lives were harsh, nothing that I could compare to them.

            We tried walking the safest direction, but everywhere was still the same. My cousin joked to me saying to get away, why are you even wearing red. Thinking in mind why red is bad. We got closer to the street where I live. My brother told me lets cross through KPT. I didn’t event know that place was even dangerous or safe. But I knew not to agree. We continued to walk and I still questioned why red is so bad since I was wearing red shoes and a slipper. One of my cousin told me to walk all bad, jokingly I did. A man across the street suddenly yelled at us saying “you one blood yea, HI! You think your bad? Come here!” I questioned myself what’s a blood. The man in light blue continued to say these things and started to walk faster towards us. The first person to run was my bro. After that we all started running. I turned around, 2 other guys were with that horrid man, staring and sticking the unnecessary finger. W

            We ran home as fast as we could. Everything on my mind was “what just happened” Realizing what these people are and what they go through, I don’t want my lifestyle to end up like that. I told my mom the story and the first thing she told me…”Get out of Kalihi and move to the mainland.”

Mini Essay-The tourists are at fault

     The tourists are fault for all the problems they cause. Injuries and deaths are caused by them not being aware of their surroundings. They should know what to do and what not to do through common sense. Hawaii isn't like the mainland. The Hawaiian islands are made of many different geographic sights and isn't  just a flatland. Even if Hawaii people does not put up signs for the tourists, they should know how to act in a hazardous are. 

     Although tourists comes down to Hawaii to sightsee and enjoy the wonderful environment, they also disrespect because they do not know that these lands have meaning to the us. They just act how they normally act like in a normal place. They need to be aware of the signs that the government puts up for these people to know they are in a dangerous place. If the tourist don't care about the signs, then it is their fault for being reckless.

     The tourist needs to use common sense if they go to natural environments. They do unnecessary things at places where it isn't safe 100%. The tourists are at fault for not being extra cautious and not being extra careful. This is why the tourists are at fault for all the accidents that happened in Hawaii.

Personal Statement

Florencio, Mimi, Tyler, Kaori

       

Position Statement

 -The tourists are at fault

            -Disrespectful to the site

            -Needs to be aware of the dangers before visiting

            - It’s common sense to be careful

- The government’s fault

            - There needs to be more signs

            - Block off dangerous places

            -  Have more authority to prevent tourists

-Nature’s fault

            - No one is really at fault because it could be a freak accident

            - Bad day for nature

            - Wrong place at the wrong time

First Blog Post

I changed the name of the new header and also with added with a professional design. I organized it to make it more clearer instead of having it to be childish. The header shows my graphic skills to be creative too add such good blends together. I could train more and take more time too make it more of a really great design.