We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you grow? (maximum 800 words)

I remember running barefoot, flowers in my hair, to the magnolia tree. I climbed as high as I could to look down at the rolling pastures below me. My eyes wandered over the blue skies and lazy cows, l

Unlock profile to read full content

Tell us about a concept, theory, or topic you have explored simply because it sparked your intellectual curiosity. Why do you find it intriguing? How do you want to explore it further? (200 word limit)

I find the combination of creativity and science one of the most fascinating things to study, despite the common misconception that STEM and art belong in two separate categories. The human body’s min

Unlock profile to read full content

Describe an experience that caused you to change your perspective and/or opinion. (200-word limit)

Having been home-schooled in a somewhat “sheltered” and conservative Christian family, I was shocked at the ubiquity of swearing during my first year at public school in ninth grade. Certain that anyo

Unlock profile to read full content

What do you admire most about your community? What would you improve? (200-word limit)

Growing up on a rural foster home campus has taught me more than I could have ever imagined. Our community not only reaches out to those in need by providing them with basic necessities and a stable h

Unlock profile to read full content

Tell us about one of your proudest achievements or moments and what it says about you (200-word limit)

When my little brother, Luke, reached the age when my siblings and I had read Boxcar Children and Tom Sawyer, he was still struggling to read simple. First-grade sentences; he has dyslexia. He would l

Unlock profile to read full content

If you could meet a character from a book or a historical figure, who would it be and what would you ask them? (200-word limit)

Victor Hugo. Revolutionary writer, man of genius, artist in every sense of the word, and one of history’s greatest procrastinators. If given the choice, I wouldn’t hesitate in choosing to meet the ast

Unlock profile to read full content