UT—Austin: Scholarship Essay Describe and evaluate one experience that significantly influenced your academic interests. The experience might be a class, a job, a relationship, an extracurricular activity, or a profound event. Be sure to explain how this experience led to your setting the g..

UVA (U of Virginia): 2. Required of ALL applicants, regardless of school or program. Answer one of the following questions in a half page or roughly 250 words (Please select the prompt you are responding to): - What's your favorite word and why? - We are a community with quirks, both in lang..

UT—Austin: Topic B (optional) Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how? 481-word version: She suggested it, but never meant it. But I accepted it, and meant it. From then on my mom cons..

Georgetown: In the space available discuss the significance to you of the school or summer activity in which you have been most involved. 596-word version: Proffering myself to Master Lee, my long mentor since elementary school in Taekwondo, a Korean martial art, as an assistant coach, I was..

Columbia: What single activity listed in the activity section of your Common Application are you most proud of and why? (150 words or less) UM (U of Michigan—Ann Arbor): If you could only do one of the activities you have listed in the Activities section of your Common Application, whic..

UC—Berkeley: Additional Comments (optional) If you wish, you may use this space to tell us anything else you want us to know about you that you have not had the opportunity to describe elsewhere in the application. (no more than 550 words) 474-word version: As I am always open to new op..