NYU: 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) 1012-character version (as..

584-word version: Psychology – Carnegie Mellon In extension to biology and chemistry, I am also interested in psychology because I suspect that the study is especially inseparable from understanding behavior from a biochemical approach... 601-word version: Biology & Chemistry –..

Johns Hopkins: Johns Hopkins offers 50 majors across the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. On this application, we ask you to identify one or two that you might like to pursue here. Why did you choose the way you did? If you are undecided, why didn`t you choose? (If any past courses or..

UChicago: How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago. (500 words maximum) 495-word version ...So in the end, I can su..

U of Chicago: Superstring theory has revolutionized speculation about the physical world by suggesting that strings play a pivotal role in the universe. Strings, however, always have explained or enriched our lives, from Theseus’s escape route from the Labyrinth, to kittens playing with ball..

738-word version: Throughout my AP economics course, no other quotation from either course books or extended reading materials had persisted in my memory more than Mr. 선생님성함`s impromptu comment on knowledge... 766-word version: Throughout my AP economics course, no text or quote from any..