Common Application: Personal Statement
Please write an essay (250 words minimum 500 words maximum) on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to 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.

484-word version
...Each country had its own characteristic appeals that enticed me and these very characteristics have shaped me into who I am today, an independent pioneer with views on aspects of a society that seemed to be cosmopolitanly different from those of the indigenous...

470-word version
...Each country had its own characteristic appeals that enticed me and these very characteristics have shaped me into who I am today, an independent pioneer with views on aspects of a society that seemed to be cosmopolitanly different from those of the indigenous...

NYU: Please respond to each of the following questions using a maximum of 1,500 characters (spaces and punctuation included) in the space provided.
A. NYU`s global network provides students with hundreds of academic areas of interest for students to cultivate their intellectual curiosity and to help achieve their career goals. Whether you are entirely undecided about your academic plans or you have a definitive program of study in mind, what are your own academic interests? Feel free to share any thoughts on any particular programs or how you might explore those interests at NYU on any of our campuses. (1500 characters)

263-word version
...Although it is definite that I have yet to develop all my latent potentials, I am confident that, if given the opportunity at NYU..., I will be able to mature into a well-versed student of the subject in this encouraging community of scholars and professionals...

NYU: Please respond to each of the following questions using a maximum of 1,500 characters (spaces and punctuation included) in the space provided.
B. What intrigues you? Tell us about one work of art, scientific achievement, piece of literature, method of communication, or place in the world (a film, book, performance, website, event, location, etc.), and explain its significance to you. (1500 characters)

269-word version
...Each country had its own characteristic appeals that enticed me and these very characteristics have shaped me into who I am today, an independent pioneer with views on aspects of societies that seemed to be cosmopolitanly different from those of the indigenous...

BU: Essay 1
In no more than 250 words, please tell us why BU is a good fit for you and what specifically has led you to apply for admission? (2400 characters)

250-word version
...Although it is definite that I have yet to develop all my latent potentials, I am confident that, if given the opportunity at BU..., I will be able to mature into a well-versed student of the subject in this encouraging community of scholars and professionals...