Common Application: Personal Essay 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..

Brown: In reading your application, we want to get to know you as well as we can. We ask that you use this opportunity to tell us something more about yourself that would help us toward a sense of who you are, how you think, and what issues and ideas interest you most. Your statement should not..

Page 206: The Three Musketeers. After D’Artagnan rescues Queen Anne from potential danger, she compensates him for his devotion to her by giving him a diamond ring. In tenth grade, I devoted myself to getting an article carried in a scientific journal...

320-word version: Looking at how far cell phones have gotten so far, what could be the next mode of communication? Perhaps it would be light... 406-word version: Like many people do, I glance at my cell phone every minute, or even less than that, to tell the truth. Although the history of cell..

According to the story of Babel Tower in the Bible, the whole world had but a single language in the beginning, and the story had me interested in language ever since...

546-word version: Line of Best Fit When I encountered various obstacles or novel situations, I tended to treat them as mere equations that just need the proper approach to solve... 570-word version: Line of Best Fit Until recently, my view of life was rather theoretically. Just as physicis..