• Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

• Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you and describe that influence.

• What would you say was the most significant moment of your life?

• Please submit a brief essay that you feel best describes you.

• Write on a topic of your choice.

• What effect has any voluntary research, reading or study, work in the arts, science project, etc. had on your intellectual and personal growth in recent years? Discuss what influence this involvement has had on your academic goals.

• At ________ college we seek students who are not only intellectually gifted, but also young people who have ‚Äúpassions‚Äù ‚Äì interests to which they are highly committed and which give their lives balance. What is your passion and how does it balance your life?

• What was the highlight of your summer?

• Please write something that will help us get to know you better.

• Cite a meaningful experience and explain its impact on you.

• What book has had the most effect on you and why? It can be a book you read on your own, in class, or anywhere.

• Name one thing you wish you understood better.

• Anatole France once said, ‚ÄúIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.‚Äù On what subject do you disagree with most people, and why?

• Write page 187 of your autobiography.

• Write about three objects that will give the admissions office insight into who you are.

• Select a creative work ‚Äì a novel, a film, a musical piece, a painting, or other work of art ‚Äì that has influenced the way you view the world and the way you view yourself. Discuss the impact the work has had on you.

• Recommend a book to us and tell us why you are recommending it.

• Describe an event that changed or impacted your life in a special way.

• Describe how to make a moral decision.