Esayos Universitarios (English)
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Publicado: 4 de diciembre de 2012
The College Essay
100+ Fine Prompts
1. What have you undertaken or done on your own in the last year or two that has nothing to do with academic work? (Northwestern)
2. Imagine that you have the opportunity to travel back through time. At what point in history would you like to stop and why? (Swarthmore)
3. What is the best advice you ever received? Why? And did you follow it?(University of Pennsylvania)
4. Select a creative work -- a novel, a film, a poem, a musical piece, a painting or other work of art -- that has influenced the way you view the world and the way you view yourself. Discuss the work and its effect on you. (New York University)
5. What do you think has been the most important social or political movement of the twentieth century? Do you share a personalidentification with this cause? (Trinity College, CT)
6. If you were to look back on your high school years, what advice would you give to someone beginning their high school career? (Simmons)
7. It has been said [Andy Warhol] that “in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” Describe your fifteen minutes. (New York University)
8. What single adjective do you think wouldbe most frequently used to describe you by those who know you best? Briefly explain. (Stanford)
9. Describe an intellectual experience of the past two years that has given you great satisfaction. (Amherst)
10. Create a question we haven’t asked and then provide the answer. (Something to that effect anyway. Dartmouth used this a few years ago. I had a student who posed the following questionand wrote a seven-page response: “Write about a time when life threw you a curve and how you handled it.”)
11. If you were to describe yourself by a quotation, what would the quote be? Explain your answer. (Dartmouth)
12. Tell us about the neighborhood that you grew up in and how it helped shape you into the kind of person you are today. (Yale and the University of Chicago)
13. You’vejust written a 300-page autobiography. Send us page 217. (University of Pennsylvania)
14. If you could be a “fly on the wall” to observe any situation -- historical, personal, or otherwise -- describe what you would choose to observe and why. What would you hope to learn and how would it benefit you? (University of Pittsburgh/94)
15. If we could only admit one more student to the University ofPittsburgh, why should it be you? (University of Pittsburgh/94)
16. Describe a risk that you have taken and discuss its impact on your life. (Kalamazoo College/93)
17. If you could spend a year with any real or fictional person in the past, present, or future, whom would you choose? Why? (Kalamazoo College/93)
18. What invention would the world be better off without, and why? (Kalamazoo)19. Write you own essay question and answer it. (Kalamazoo College/93)
20. If you had the power to change three things in your community or in the world, what would you change and why? (Middle East Technical University in Turkey/93, provided by an exchange student)
21. If you had the gift of telepathy, the ability to read other people’s minds, would you use this gift or not? Explain.(Middle East Technical University/93)
22. Tell us about one of the best conversations you’ve had. (Stanford/93)
23. If you were to write a book, on what theme or subject matter would it be based, and why? (Stanford/93)
24. Tell us how a particular book, play, film, piece of music, dance performance, scientific theory or experiment or work of art has influenced you. If you choose a novel, filmor play, assume we know the plot. (Notre Dame/93)
25. Select a technological innovation of this century and discuss its effects on your family, local community or nation. (Notre Dame/93)
26. Read Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood. Choose one of her observations or ideas and write a creative, reflective or provocative essay. (Notre Dame/93)
27. Read Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter...
100+ Fine Prompts
1. What have you undertaken or done on your own in the last year or two that has nothing to do with academic work? (Northwestern)
2. Imagine that you have the opportunity to travel back through time. At what point in history would you like to stop and why? (Swarthmore)
3. What is the best advice you ever received? Why? And did you follow it?(University of Pennsylvania)
4. Select a creative work -- a novel, a film, a poem, a musical piece, a painting or other work of art -- that has influenced the way you view the world and the way you view yourself. Discuss the work and its effect on you. (New York University)
5. What do you think has been the most important social or political movement of the twentieth century? Do you share a personalidentification with this cause? (Trinity College, CT)
6. If you were to look back on your high school years, what advice would you give to someone beginning their high school career? (Simmons)
7. It has been said [Andy Warhol] that “in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” Describe your fifteen minutes. (New York University)
8. What single adjective do you think wouldbe most frequently used to describe you by those who know you best? Briefly explain. (Stanford)
9. Describe an intellectual experience of the past two years that has given you great satisfaction. (Amherst)
10. Create a question we haven’t asked and then provide the answer. (Something to that effect anyway. Dartmouth used this a few years ago. I had a student who posed the following questionand wrote a seven-page response: “Write about a time when life threw you a curve and how you handled it.”)
11. If you were to describe yourself by a quotation, what would the quote be? Explain your answer. (Dartmouth)
12. Tell us about the neighborhood that you grew up in and how it helped shape you into the kind of person you are today. (Yale and the University of Chicago)
13. You’vejust written a 300-page autobiography. Send us page 217. (University of Pennsylvania)
14. If you could be a “fly on the wall” to observe any situation -- historical, personal, or otherwise -- describe what you would choose to observe and why. What would you hope to learn and how would it benefit you? (University of Pittsburgh/94)
15. If we could only admit one more student to the University ofPittsburgh, why should it be you? (University of Pittsburgh/94)
16. Describe a risk that you have taken and discuss its impact on your life. (Kalamazoo College/93)
17. If you could spend a year with any real or fictional person in the past, present, or future, whom would you choose? Why? (Kalamazoo College/93)
18. What invention would the world be better off without, and why? (Kalamazoo)19. Write you own essay question and answer it. (Kalamazoo College/93)
20. If you had the power to change three things in your community or in the world, what would you change and why? (Middle East Technical University in Turkey/93, provided by an exchange student)
21. If you had the gift of telepathy, the ability to read other people’s minds, would you use this gift or not? Explain.(Middle East Technical University/93)
22. Tell us about one of the best conversations you’ve had. (Stanford/93)
23. If you were to write a book, on what theme or subject matter would it be based, and why? (Stanford/93)
24. Tell us how a particular book, play, film, piece of music, dance performance, scientific theory or experiment or work of art has influenced you. If you choose a novel, filmor play, assume we know the plot. (Notre Dame/93)
25. Select a technological innovation of this century and discuss its effects on your family, local community or nation. (Notre Dame/93)
26. Read Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood. Choose one of her observations or ideas and write a creative, reflective or provocative essay. (Notre Dame/93)
27. Read Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter...
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