Duke: If you have participated in any significant research activity outside of school, please provide a brief description and limit your response to one or two paragraphs.

Northwestern: If you have done any research or independent study outside of school, please include an abstract or summary of your work.

245-word version:
Low income families in Korea suffer socially. They are discriminated against as a minority and their children are the biggest victims. Unable to improve their conditions, their children are waiting to be victimized the partial practices of the Korean education system...

405-word version:
As I studied the intricate mechanics of economics, I discovered that if an economy suffers from drastic inflation, a contraction policy will be implemented, such as a tax raise. Policy-makers know that those in the lower income bracket will suffer, yet they have no choice but to implement the policy to recover the economy...