DaeilOSP.com » Academic Interests http://www.daeilosp.com Daeil Overseas Studies Program | Educating and US College Counseling to Korean Students Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:23:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Common Application Essay http://www.daeilosp.com/256/common-application-essay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=common-application-essay http://www.daeilosp.com/256/common-application-essay/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:31:52 +0000 Victor http://www.daeilosp.com/?p=256 Personal Essay Please write an essay (250 words minimum) on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below, and attach it to your application before submission. Please indicate your topic by checking the appropriate box. This personal essay helps us become acquainted with you as a person and
student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will also demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself.

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.

Lots of love, Phoebe.

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