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Amid eerie gray clouds, looming fog, and glowing street lamps, there’s a slight sliver of clear night sky. I rush to the corner of my street, skid around the curb, and disappear into a trail plagued

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Short Answer 1: Major

When I was four, my parents bought me a toy garbage truck. While the truck’s bright-green coating caught my eye, another feature appealed to me even more: the truck could talk. The more it rolled, the

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Short Answer 2: Impact

I’ve learned that leadership is anything but a position. It’s the active involvement of yourself with others around you. In my first year on the robotics team, all of the captains were obsessed wi

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Short Answer 3: Experience

As a self-taught programmer, I’ve found uses for computer science beyond personal projects. I look to CS for new ways to help both the local and broader communities—whether it be by creating websi

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Optional Short Answer

During the winter (second term) of my Junior year, I lost my final living grandparent, my grandfather, to COVID-19. For previous loved ones’ passings, I had never been old enough to understand what

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UT Austin Required Essay

Amid eerie gray clouds, looming fog, and glowing street lamps, there’s a slight sliver of clear night sky. The conditions are perfect. I rush to the corner of my street, skid around the curb, and

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With which one of TCU’s core values do you most align and why?

The scorching heat is beating down on me, I haven’t eaten food or drank water for hours, and there’s still a line of 300 men, women, and children waiting. This is more important than my own thirst, my

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Describe how you have contributed to an inclusive environment.

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Communities Essay

The scorching heat is beating down on me, I haven’t eaten food or drank water for hours, and there’s still a line of 300 men, women, and children waiting. This is more important than my own thirst,

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Why that College or School?

As a self-taught programmer, I often looked to online curricula to quench my thirst for learning. And, despite the ease and accessibility of the internet, quality resources were few and far between. S

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Why do you want to study your chosen major specifically at Georgia Tech?

As a self-taught programmer, I’ve found computer science can be used for more than just personal projects. I look to CS to impact both the local and broader communities. For the past two years, I

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Please select an additional major within your first choice college. Computer Engineering (College of Science and Engineering) 2nd Choice College Computer Science (Bachelor of Arts in College of Liberal Arts) Please select an additional major within your second choice college. Computer Science (Bachelor of Arts in College of Liberal Arts) I am interested in the resources offered in the President's Emerging Scholars Program No Goals/Interest

I’ve been toying with computers since my parents first got me a green talking-Tonka-truck at four- years-old. I would run around with it—pretending I was a giant pushing a garbage-truck—trying to fi

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Optional Diversity Question

A majority of my childhood years were spent changing locales, and as a result, making new friends instead of maintaining friendships. Each state and city and county had different norms and taboos,

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Campus Statement

Despite hours of work, there’s always one color on my screen that refuses to go away: red. Whether it be errors within the thousands of lines of code I write, squiggly lines under the hundreds of wo

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