Senior Summer Writing

	SUMMER WRITING ASSIGNMENT For Seniors-to-be   In addition to your “Summer Reading Assignment,” please select one of the following essay topics and write a 2-page essay on it.  If you already know what schools you want to apply to, you can also find out what their essay questions are and answer one of those instead. Hand this essay in to your English teacher on the first day of class in the fall.  This assignment will help you get ready for submitting your college applications, so you don’t leave it all to the last minute and cause everyone (yourself included) unnecessary stress.       The College Personal Statement Sample Questions   What qualities or unique characteristics do you possess that would allow you to contribute to the university environment? Why have you selected this college? Why have you chosen this career or profession? Write an essay describing your educational goals and motivation to attend college. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, or risk that you have taken and its impact on you. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. Indicate a person, character in fiction, an historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, etc.) that has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence. Why do you want to spend two to six years of your life at a particular college, graduate school, or professional school? How is the degree necessary to the fulfillment of your goals? What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised or unsettled or challenged you, and in what way? Describe your most significant personal experience. Why was it significant and how has it influenced you? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation. What have you read that has had a special significance for you? Explain why. Describe a person or experience of particular importance to you. Please describe the reasons that influenced you in selecting your intended major field of study. If you could travel through time and interview a prominent figure in the arts, politics, religion, or science, for example, whom would you choose and why? Describe your experience in living in a racially, culturally, or ethnically diverse environment; what do you expect to need to know to live successfully in the multi-cultural society of the future? Make up a question, state it clearly, and answer it. Feel free to use your imagination, recognizing that those who read it will not mind being entertained. Please use the space provided to indicate what you consider your best qualities to be, and describe how your college education will be of assistance to you in sharing these qualities and your accomplishments with others.     Want to do some background reading before you get started?  This site has some great examples of college essays, broken down by topic.

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