Georgetown: ALL APPLICANTS: The Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please respond to one of the following two prompts: (A) Please submit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you feel best describes you. OR (B) Describe an experience you have had living or working in a diverse community. How might that experience help you to contribute to the life of a university community like Georgetown’s?

UC—Berkeley: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?

577-word version: Georgetown & U of California—Berkeley
...Last summer, 친구이름 told me that he was going to volunteer for an orphanage in the Philippines as a small means of his relief activity “in a nationwide effort to eradicate the world of hunger and famine” and “to do something beneficial to mankind.” But as soon as I heard his grandiose ambition, I wondered why he would want to go all the way to the Philippines...