1499-character version (out of 1500 character limit): Brown – Public Service 1997, Prague. I dreamt of becoming an author who will be read by every child around the world. My dream, however, shattered within minutes as a Discovery Channel documentary told me that children were being forced a..

He crossed the Yalu River and on to the barren lands of Sakhalin. There he thought he might find hope if he worked hard enough, at least until a big bully decided to load him on a cargo train and send him away to Central Asia along with 175,000 of his brethren, on a journey in which one fifth of t..

456-word version: Cornell – College of Arts and Sciences – Biological Science ...One day, my sister and I were watching television and saw an astronomer floating freely above the moon’s surface. A world that never seemed possible captivated my sister, who was merely a six year o..

402-word version: Biochemistry – Cornell (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) One of the programs in school that changed my life was Habitat for Humanity. Offered once a year to thirty students from our school, the objective of the program is to travel to third world countries and help..

194-word version: U Penn ...From these experiences, I have cultivated an inspiration to study biology and chemistry so I may someday develop new medicines and techniques that would be affordable to the world’s poor and become an influential but unaffected benefactor...

136-word version: Northwestern If a school seeks a well-rounded, enthusiastic student, that school is also responsible for making that student well-rounded and enthusiastic. And I believe Northwestern is capable of doing just that, capable of making me all that... 262-word version: Emory If a..