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.

My back pocket was empty.  Yikes . The flimsy Muji notebook that usually accompanied me to work was stuck in my locker, and I felt naked without it. I scribbled a few words onto a discarded receipt:

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Additional Intellectual Experiences

Beyond the crackling Zoom feedback, we didn’t hear anything. Sitting in stillness and meditative introspection, my instructor at the School of the New York Times challenged us to interpret silence i

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EC Essay

Painted signs announced messages of [Redacted Content] as songs of unabating hope rang within the Capitol rotunda. Following months of ceaseless organizing for the [Redacted Content] [Organization Red

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An intellectual experience that has meant the most to you. Unlimited word count.

“Magistra,” we’d interrupt. “Quid est ‘semper ubi sub ubi?’” Semper Ubi Sub Ubi—a phrase adored by Latin students and hated by Latin teachers—became the rallying cry of my eighth-grade classroom. Its

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"Why Northwestern" Statement: 100 words, a 20 minute deadline and an airtight breaking news story seemed an impossible assignment. As I sat in the virtual press conference at the Northwestern-Medill High School Journalism Institute, I scribbled every quote as my instructors role-played various executives of a bankrupt standardized testing company.

Though I had never written on such a short deadline, I experienced the value of “learning by doing,” and I knew Northwestern’s flexible and immersive curriculum would be the perfect fit. While worki

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Why do these areas appeal to you?

I viewed my social justice work in a vacuum until my AP World History class pored over the long-lasting effects of industrialization on climate change and dissected the influence of muckraking on labo

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Why Yale

Yellowed pages, preserved in a 25-year-old leather-bound book, hold my dad’s journal entries. I am riveted by the content while simultaneously transfixed by the cracks in the book’s well-loved spine.

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Essays

“Magistra,” we’d interrupt. “Quid est ‘semper ubi sub ubi?’” Semper Ubi Sub Ubi —a phrase adored by Latin students and hated by Latin teachers—became the rallying cry of my seventh-grade classroom.

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