Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

Setting down my case of soft-brush markers, I get to work. Well, not really my case of markers — it’s my sister’s (I know, it’s a trivial distinction!) who’s much more of an artist than I ever was. I

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Why Yale

I’m interested in a school that maintains a strong commitment to the humanities. This includes a passion for both studying and criticizing the Western canon. During a summer session at Yale Young Glob

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Essays

I’ve always been fascinated by the history we aren’t taught. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, this manifests itself in a long-standing fascination with Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ history. Did you kno

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Extracurricular Activity and Work Experience Briefly elaborate on an activity, organization, work experience, or hobby that has been particularly meaningful to you. (Please respond in about 150 words)

“Analysis shows that Google’s face recognition technology routinely mistakes the faces of African Americans for chimpanzees. If that’s not racist, then I don’t know what is !” It was a powerful moment

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Your Voice Please respond to each question in an essay of about 250 words. At Princeton, we value diverse perspectives and the ability to have respectful dialogue about difficult issues. Share a time when you had a conversation with a person or a group of people about a difficult topic. What insight did you gain, and how would you incorporate that knowledge into your thinking in the future?

Why doesn’t anyone seem to care? Is caring a choice? How do we convince others that something is worth caring for? These were just a few of the questions swirling through my head as I sat in one of ou

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Princeton has a longstanding commitment to service and civic engagement. Tell us how your story intersects (or will intersect) with these ideals.

Time for a thought experiment: you’re in high school, taking a language you love; the teacher is nice, the students caring, and the subject absolutely fascinating. When you enrolled in that class, you

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More About You Please respond to each question in 50 words or fewer. There are no right or wrong answers. Be yourself! What is a new skill you would like to learn in college?

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What brings you joy?

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What song represents the soundtrack of your life at this moment?

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As a research institution that also prides itself on its liberal arts curriculum, Princeton allows students to explore areas across the humanities and the arts, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. What academic areas most pique your curiosity, and how do the programs offered at Princeton suit your particular interests? (Please respond in about 250 words)

Comparative Literature, English, and East Asian Studies are fields of study that I am passionate about. What fascinates me about both Comparative and English Literature is the sneak peek it offers int

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List the titles of the required readings from academic courses that you enjoyed most during secondary/high school.

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List the titles of the books, essays, poetry, short stories or plays you read outside of academic courses that you enjoyed most during secondary/high school.

Persuasion, Jane Eyre, The Bell Jar, Nicomachean Ethics, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, “Gretel in Darkness” by Louise Glück, Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Futu

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We’re interested in learning about some of the ways that you explore your interests. List some resources and outlets that you enjoy, including but not limited to websites, publications,  journals, podcasts, social media accounts, lectures, museums, movies, music, or other content with which you regularly engage.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Coursera, Library of Congress Archives, The New York Times, The Satirist, Open Yale Courses (especially on Milton), John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, TedEx lectur

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A hallmark of the Columbia experience is being able to learn and live in a community with a wide range of perspectives. How do you or would you learn from and contribute to diverse, collaborative communities?

I think we could all agree that in the world of today, many truths, realities, and histories are glossed over. Since challenging the dominant narrative, peeling away the covert layers of the picture,

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Why are you interested in attending Columbia University? We encourage you to consider the aspect(s) that you find unique and compelling about Columbia.

Columbia’s commitment to crafting an expansive and consciously diverse Core Curriculum is one of the many things that makes Columbia stand out. By engaging students with the topics, problems, and quer

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For applicants to Columbia College, please tell us what from your current and past experiences (either academic or personal) attracts you specifically to the areas of study that you previously noted in the application.

What fascinates me about literature is the sneak peek it offers into otherwise completely isolated facets of the human experience — the experiences of persecuted refugees, courageous activists, shell-

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Significant Activity or Work

“Analysis shows that Google’s face recognition technology routinely mistakes the faces of African Americans for chimpanzees. If that’s not racist, then I don’t know what is !” It was a powerful moment

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Additional Intellectual Experiences

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EC Essay

“Analysis shows that Google’s face recognition technology routinely mistakes the faces of African Americans for chimpanzees. If that’s not racist, then I don’t know what is !” It was a powerful moment

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Supplemental Essay

There’s nothing like opening a book to find it’s not at all what you expected. I had an experience like that this summer.  It was with a book I received as a present called Code Breaker . All I knew

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