UT--Austin: Optional
There may be personal information that you want considered as part of your admissions application. Write an essay describing that information. You might include exceptional hardships, challenges, or opportunities that have shaped or impacted your abilities or academic credentials, personal responsibilities, exceptional achievements or talents, educational goals, or ways in which you might contribute to an institution committed to creating a diverse learning environment.

814-word version
Although I volunteered for various community services every semester while in college and had mostly participated in big civic groups, non-governmental organizations or NGOs, and related societies, I wanted to deliver more practical services that would help the neglected after completing my military service in the Korean Army and returned to college. My change in heart was influenced by a TV program that was about finding unknown philanthropists and giving them presents in return...