Emory: What is your favorite ride at the amusement park? How does this reflect your approach to life? (no more than 250 words)

249-word version: Emory
Rather like a cliché though it may sound, I find not the generic roller coaster but the shuttle roller coaster, which does not make a complete circuit, but rather traverses back the same track at some point in its course, to be the most enlightening as I do not enjoy the angular momentum of the ride but do welcome the precept it renders to me...

321-word version: Emory
Rather like a cliché though it may sound with probably more than a couple of hundred applicants to Emory College stating that the general roller coaster is their favorite ride as it represents the ups and downs of their lives, I also find not the generic roller coaster but specifically the shuttle roller coaster...to be not my favorite but the most enlightening...

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)

1413-character version: New York U
Although I am interested in numerous subjects and mediums, what intrigues me the most is not the rush of adrenaline I get from riding a shuttle roller coaster but what the ride represents to me. The shuttle roller coaster, unlike the generic ones, does not make a complete circuit, but rather traverses back the same track at some point in its course...

NYU-Poly: How are you a `Poly Thinker`? (500 characters)

492-character version: Polytechnic Institute of New York U
Although many might just consider the rush of adrenaline when thinking about the shuttle roller coaster..., I am inclined to think about what it is reflective of...