Pediatria

Possible topics for college essays

What have you undertaken or done on your own in the last year or two that has nothing to do with academic work? (Northwestern)

Imagine that you have theopportunity to travel back through time. At what point in history would you like to stop and why? (Swarthmore)

What is the best advice you ever received? Why? And did you follow it? (University ofPennsylvania)

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)

What do you think has been the most important social or political movement of the twentieth century? Do you share a personal identificationwith this cause? (Trinity College, CT)

If you were to look back on your high school years, what advice would you give to someone beginning their high school career? (Simmons)

It has been said [byAndy Warhol] that "in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Describe your fifteen minutes. (New York University)

What single adjective do you think would be most frequently usedto describe you by those who know you best? Briefly explain. (Stanford)

Describe an intellectual experience of the past two years that has given you great satisfaction. (Amherst)

Create aquestion 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 question and wrote a seven-pageresponse: "Write about a time when life threw you a curve and how you handled it.")

If you were to describe yourself by a quotation, what would the quote be? Explain your answer. (Dartmouth)

Tell usabout 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)

You've just written a 300-page autobiography....