What is your favorite word, and why? (approximately 250 words) 238-word version: ...I was also frustrated for my score did not increase as I thought it would. However, I decided to look on the bright side when I came to read Plato’s quotation in the text book for philosophy class; “T..

What work of art, music, science, mathematics or literature has surprised or unsettled or challenged you, and in what way? Please limit your response to half a page, or approximately 250 words. 289-word version: ...In the middle of my room was the piano which I have not touched for five years sin..

Northwestern: An old expression says, "what is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right." Give an example of a time when you made a choice that was not popular, but you felt was right. Why did you make this choice? What happened as a result? (500 words) 47..

Harvard: What is your favorite character? Why? (500 words) 494-word version: ...Frodo is my favorite movie character in that such an ordinary character assumes the most important role. Frodo embodies neither the remarkable powers of his mighty companions, nor extraordinary intelligence, but ha..

Harvard: What is your favorite character? Why? (500 words) 412-word version: Of all the characters that I have encountered through books and movies, two stand out as those who I most want to emulate. They are Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird and Dr. Archibald “Moonlight”..

Tell us about a few of your favorite books, poems, authors films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of our own. (one or two paragraphs) 162-word version:..