Personal Statement (650 words)

I was pacing up and down my dorm halls, awake with guilt, like Macbeth, whose “innocent sleep” had departed.   A few weeks prior, I’d received the call no son wants - my Mom had cancer.   This isn’

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We want to be sure we’re considering your application in the context of your personal experiences: What aspects of your background, your identity, or your school, community, and/or household settings have most shaped how you see yourself engaging in Northwestern’s community, be it academically, extracurricularly, culturally, politically, socially, or otherwise? (fewer than 300 words)*

At first we were just a cover band. A lazy cover band that found generic jazz pieces online. I could only play “The Chicken” or “St. Thomas” so many times before getting a headache. My bandmates agree

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Painting “The Rock” is a tradition at Northwestern that invites all forms of expression—students promote campus events or extracurricular groups, support social or activist causes, show their Wildcat spirit (what we call “Purple Pride”), celebrate their culture, and more. What would you paint on The Rock, and why? (Fewer then 200 words)

Hole 1: “Going low, baby!” Two years ago, our hockey team lost its last match in Shanghai. The team broke up, and my brothers-in-arms scattered. I transitioned to another sport where I also swung a

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Northwestern fosters a distinctively interdisciplinary culture. We believe discovery and innovation thrive at the intersection of diverse ideas, perspectives, and academic interests. Within this setting, if you could dream up an undergraduate class, research project, or creative effort (a start-up, a design prototype, a performance, etc.), what would it be? (Less than 200 words)

I have always been fascinated by Battlebots, and my dreams came to fruition when I entered the VEX robotics competition in Dallas. As we progressed through the competition, I began to ask myself, “Was

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