Short Answer Essays (Typically up to 250 words)

• Please tell us how you have spent the last two summers, including any jobs you may have had.
(2500 characters, Princeton University, NJ)

• How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning community, and future?
(Not specified, University of Chicago, IL)

• Describe an experience when you worked in partnership with others to achieve something you could not have done alone.
(1500 characters, Kenyon College, OH)

• When Smith College was founded in 1871, there were few educational opportunities for women. Is a women’s college still relevant in 2009?
(1000 characters or 150 words, Smith College, MA)

• What work of art, music, science, mathematics or literature has surprised, unsettled or challenged you, and in what way?
(1/2 page or 250 words, University of Virginia, VA)

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