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...

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..

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...

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..

Rochester: The Rochester Curriculum - University of Rochester students enroll with no required subjects as they design their own college path. Write about the subjects and learning situations that interest you most, and how you intend to use your autonomy here. (1000 characters) 988-character..

U of Notre Dame: The curriculum offered at Notre Dame varies from what you might expect (e.g. Introduction to Biological Sciences, Accountancy) to topics you might not (e.g. Theology and Engineering, Friendship: From Aristotle to Facebook). If you could introduce a new course and serve as the expe..