College Admissions Essay Samples

Generation X
Generation X
College Admissions · 583 words
  • Question: Popular culture has dubbed you and your contemporaries . Respond to this label and describe any feelings brought about by this. My main objective in writing this essay was to articulate my feelings on a topic which should matter to those of us...


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Future Plans
Future Plans
College Admissions · 202 words
  • Scholarship Essay ?Did life exist on Mars?? ?What would it take to build a spaceship that could travel at the speed of light?? ?When will the moon be colonized?? These are just some of the questions that wander through my mind all day. Fascinated by the...


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Family
Family
College Admissions · 265 words
  • Scholarship Essay Since the day I was born, I have enjoyed story-telling. My first memories are of my father spinning me tales, as I nodded off. Every night I traveled back in time through his stories. I learned of Nero's sadistic burning of Rome, Adolph Hitler's...


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Experience that Influenced You
Experience that Influenced You
College Admissions · 447 words
  • The prompt is: Describe and evaluate one experience that significantly influenced your academic interests. Be sure to explain how this experience led to your setting the goals you know have for yourself and why you think the academic program for which...


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Woman warrior
Woman warrior
College Admissions · 1,945 words
  • Woman Warrior Food strengthens us, without it we are weak. Eating has always been an important factor with families living in poor conditions. Often, those who could not help to produce more food are considered inferior or unworthy to eat. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman...


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Discuss an issue of international concern and its importance to you
Discuss an issue of international concern and its importance to you
College Admissions · 735 words
  • It was easy to empathize with Andy Dufresne and the other prisoners in The Shawshank Redemption as they suffered in their prison cells, I suffered while watching the movie. It was not because I disliked the film far...


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Describe an experience that changed you
Describe an experience that changed you
College Admissions · 672 words
  • The black pirate hat danced around in the air, weaving and bobbing to some Disneyland music. Attached to it was my head and the rest of me, being dragged along on this wild ride. The only sounds I heard were ones of trumpets soaring higher and...


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Describe a Person Who has Significantly Effected You
Describe a Person Who has Significantly Effected You
College Admissions · 606 words
  • I shudder at the sight of it. I?d rather see them steal that salad than throw it away,? my father bellows in consternation after witnessing the closing rituals at Wendy's. ?Pa, they do it so they can serve fresh food tomorrow,?...


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Describe a Challenging Situation
Describe a Challenging Situation
College Admissions · 607 words
  • University of Washington Admissions Essay The challenging family situation I would like to share with you is our move from Korea to the United States. In 1989, my life was changed when my family immigrated to a new country, hoping for a better...


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Your Ideal Roomate
Your Ideal Roomate
College Admissions · 331 words
  • I think I?d want someone who was really intelligent and was after the meaning of life. Someone who?d had insights that I hadn't who could really bounce ideas back at me in a conversation. Someone who wasn't afraid to break with the norm and who didn't care if he...


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Your Biggest Mistake
Your Biggest Mistake
College Admissions · 283 words
  • In response to the question ?what has been your biggest mistake?? My biggest mistake is everyone's biggest mistake, that no one can help. We all take on assumptions throughout our lives, and when we finally come to understand this, we spend our lives undoing...


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Describe A Person who has Influenced You
Describe A Person who has Influenced You
College Admissions · 879 words
  • Everyone is affected by certain events or individuals that greatly change their life. Many people have influenced me during my life. Three wonderful friends that have had a special effect on me are Robert, Tiffany and Ashley. In the four...


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Cornell Essay
Cornell Essay
College Admissions · 466 words
  • By unlocking the door to (name) past, one sees his thoughts and actions when they first took hold of his persona. This essay serves as a key to that door and to my current personality. The first beloved books in my life were the Sesame Street Encyclopedia volumes....


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Which of your possessions reveals most about you and why
Which of your possessions reveals most about you and why
College Admissions · 666 words
  • ?Observe, Watson.? An unfamiliar voice caused me to stop dead in my tracks as I was coming back to my table. Surreptitiously glancing through the foliage, I noticed two men pointing at something. Hesitant to announce my...


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Comment on an experience in your life that had an effect on your life
Comment on an experience in your life that had an effect on your life
College Admissions · 798 words
  • . I was a little worried writing about my mother because I thought it would seem like I was looking for sympathy, but I figured it was a good topic to write about because it had the largest effect on me. My goal...


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