Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.

As I stood in front of my bedroom closet, I knew something needed to change. The phonebooth-sized space overflowed with a tsunami of clothes and size fourteen shoes, and my beloved grey hoodie had van

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Why are you interested in the major you indicated as your first-choice major?

I’ve always admired the logic of math and, at an early age, identified finance as a practical field where I could apply quantitative skills. In 2020, I enrolled in a summer program in finance at a loc

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Describe how your experiences, perspectives, talents, and/or your involvement in leadership activities (at your school, job, community, or within your family) will help you to make an impact both in and out of the classroom while enrolled at UT.

In 29 baseball seasons I’ve learned that, though the players may change, each team becomes its own community. My job as captain is to give my teammates the encouragement they need to succeed. In every

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The core purpose of The University of Texas at Austin is, "To Transform Lives for the Benefit of Society." Please share how you believe your experience at UT-Austin will prepare you to “Change the World” after you graduate.

In eighth grade, I traveled with a synagogue group from my [Place Redacted]C suburb to Selma, Mobile, and Birmingham, Alabama, to learn about the civil rights movement of the 1960s and contemporary ra

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Please respond to one of the prompts in 350-650 words below.

Of all sports, baseball may be the least individualistic. Baseball’s many distinct roles mean that a single star player’s skill cannot bring victory; instead, each teammate is essential, and success c

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What about being a student at Boston University most excites you? (250 word maximum)

Financial markets present a unique opportunity to effect positive social change. In 2020, during a summer program in finance at Columbia University, I discovered that I love examining stock valuations

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Reasons for applying

Drawn to Wake Forest’s reputation for close community and excellent academics, I was amazed when I toured the School of Business. Farrell Hall’s “Living Room” buzzed with the conversations of business

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1b. Explain how a book you’ve read has helped you to understand the world’s complexity. (150 words)

As a natural organizer, I’d always assumed efficiency was unquestionably good, but Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational completely changed my perspective. By picking apart behavior—like our tendency to

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2. Tell us more about the topic that most engages your intellectual curiosity. (150 words)

As Rucker C. Johnson details in Children of the Dream , students who attend integrated, well-funded schools are more successful in life. Disturbed by my school’s absence of racial diversity, I have so

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Give us your top ten list

Top 10 happiest moments in my life: 1. Reaching my goal weight after putting myself on a strict health regimen after freshman year (92/100) 2. 5th-grade prize for best bridge design; discovered love o

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Tell us why you are interested in the South Carolina Honors College.

At the USC Honors College I hope to create a unique program of study--via a Baccalaureus Artium et Scientiae (BARSC)--that synthesizes my passions for behavioral economics, real estate finance, and so

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What sparks your intellectual curiosity? How have you explored the subject in the past? How do you plan to explore it at UofSC?

I’ve always been obsessed with “incentives”: at four, I designed my family’s point system to reward my siblings for good behavior; by high school, as baseball team captain, I’d learned to nurture indi

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We expect our students to integrate their learning with meaningful extracurricular experiences. Pick a beyond-the-classroom activity where you have taken initiative and tell us more about your involvement. Share what you have learned from your experience. How do you envision building upon this experience to contribute to the University of South Carolina and the South Carolina Honors College community?

Of all sports, baseball may be the least individualistic. Baseball’s many distinct roles mean that a single star player’s skill cannot bring victory; instead, each teammate is essential, and success c

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Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes or contributed to group efforts over time.

In 29 seasons playing baseball, I’ve learned how the right leadership can turn a team into its own community. As varsity team captain, it’s my job to bind us together by giving each of my teammates th

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Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

When I was nine—in addition to my dad working 65-hour weeks—my mom started commuting from New York to Philadelphia, staying overnight three nights per week. Suddenly, my whole world changed: my bigges

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Think about an academic subject that inspires you. Describe how you have furthered this interest inside and/or outside of the classroom.

I’ve always been obsessed with “incentives”: at four, I designed my family’s point system to reward my siblings for good behavior; by high school, as baseball team captain, I’d learned to nurture indi

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What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?

Baseball practice--stretching, hitting, fielding, pitching--was a daily ritual, an order I counted on. In May 2020, this ritual was interrupted when [Place Redacted] state cancelled baseball. My broth

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Communities Essay

I am the product of a very unlikely pair. My mother was raised Methodist in the Midwest and thrives in academic and corporate hierarchies. My father is an entrepreneur from Tel Aviv who went from sell

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Why that College or School?

I’ve always been obsessed with “incentives”: at four, I designed my family’s point system to reward my siblings for good behavior; by high school, as baseball team captain, I’d learned to nurture indi

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Choose a current event or issue in your community and discuss the business implications. Propose a solution that incorporates business principles or practices. The review panel will look for creativity, drawing connections, and originality. Your response should be limited to approximately 500 words.

My hometown, [Place Redacted], [Place Redacted], is considerably less diverse than state and national averages or adjacent towns: it has an average income of over $250K and is 1% African American, 15%

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What you are interested in studying and why

I’ve always been interested in finance, and researching the government’s twentieth-century lending policies for my U.S. History final paper, I discovered a second passion: advancing racial equity in r

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What work of art, music, science, mathematics, literature, or other media has surprised, unsettled, or inspired you, and in what way? (250 words)

Picking up Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, I was immediately intrigued by the question on the back cover: “Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take

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Rita Dove, UVA English professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate, once said in an interview that “…there are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” Describe a time when, instead of complaining, you took action for the greater good.

Baseball practice—stretching, hitting, fielding, pitching—was a daily ritual, an order I counted on. In May 2020, this ritual was interrupted by the news that there’d be no baseball in New York state.

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