NYU Poly: If you could spend one day in New York City with a famous inventor, who would you like it to be, where would you go, and why? (500 characters) 500-character version: Mathematics-oriented – Polytechnic Institute of NYU I would bring Hypatia to the Empire State Building to obser..

266-word version: U of Notre Dame ...It was when I walked by the Theodore Hesburgh Library and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, my pulse raced, and I knew that University of Notre Dame was what I had dreamed of for the last four years of high school...

159-word version: Agriculture & Biochemistry – All Schools Today, many regard the draining of natural energy to be the most urgent concern for our way of life. But I believe there is a more pressing matter than the acquisition of a stable energy source... 200-word version: Agricultur..

About a year or so ago, I spent the best and the most memorable Christmas Day, not at home with my family, but instead four, five hours away from home, cleaning up the devastating oil spill at the Taean Beach along with 60,000 volunteers...

I pass by Boston University a lot, and every single time I pass by it, I always pick out at least one person in the crowd...

420-word version: Cornell – Biological or Physical Science ...At Cornell, I intend to study either biological or physical sciences, though I admit that I had been more of a musician on the outside... 431-word version: Emory – Biological or Physical Science ...At Emory, I intend to..