Common Application: The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores? Choose the option that b..

I’m a minority. To make things worse, I’m a minority within a minority group. I’m Korean but my last name is not Kim, Lee or Park. It’s Ryu (pronounced You but with a R sound in front and not Rye-U).Unlike most Koreans I didn’t score an 800 or close to an 800 on my SA..

Cornell: Describe your intellectual interests, their evolution, and what makes them exciting to you. 292-word version: Undecided or Liberal Arts-oriented – Cornell Mathematics was my ardor, life, and goal. In childhood, I did not go to private tutoring classes for math that were and sti..

Although I am not certain of the course of my career just yet, I am certain that I want to learn more about various subjects from languages to social sciences. I want to educate myself more to find out where my aptitude really lies. One aptitude, however, I am certain of is my “proclivity&rd..

Activity 4: member of a Christian group; participated in various activities (prayer meetings, Quest video series & discussions); weekly offer of free hot chocolate and snack for students Activity 5: Thailand and Cambodia (8 days, 연도); visited local churches and orphanages and did various ac..

Activity 4: singer of the students’ choir group, performed at church services weekly, 교회명 Presbyterian Church Activity 5: member of the students’ choir, performed at church services weekly, 교회명 Presbyterian Church (9th-10th grade), Head of the Students’ Choir (11th grade)..