Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?

Inside the papery embrace of recycled shoeboxes, I save tokens of personal history. Through scavenges in the creaky attic and tear-stained conversations with relatives, I gather fragments of my grandp

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Most significant challenge society faces

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Last two summers

2020: Leading hikes, financial literacy courses, rice-cooker cookbook at RUN; Challenging students to live on $5 via Asylum Action; Swim-training; Learning Python 2021: Making friends nocturnally at

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Historical moment or event

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Briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities, a job you hold, or responsibilities you have for your family.

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One thing you are looking forward to at Stanford

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Reflect on an idea or experience that makes you excited about learning

Titus, a skinny, glasses-wearing 18-year-old student protestor awaiting trial. As he grasps me with trembling hands, I imagine them –and mine– clad in handcuffs. I may never see him again. Fear appreh

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Note to future roommate

Dearest Roomie, Picture this: The clumsiest person you will ever meet performing a Cambodian peacock dance before thousands of tourists. When the ‘Peacock King’ tries to crown her on our school trip

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Something meaningful to you and why

Texting my father “I’ve left the pool,” he asks why “I felt the drool.” Living with a dyslexic father, every day is a game of Scrabble. His jumbled letters bring us together. In eighth grade, as class

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