College Prompts (3)

University of Washington

A. Personal Statement (Required)

The Personal Statement is our best means of getting to know you and your best means of creating a context for your academic performance. When you write your personal statement, tell us about those aspects of your life that are not apparent from your academic record. Tell us about the experiences that don’t show up on your transcript:

• a character-defining moment,
• the cultural awareness you’ve developed,
• a challenge faced,
• a personal hardship or barrier overcome.

Directions

Choose either A or B. Please do not exceed 650 words.

A. Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.

OR

B. Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

Tips

• Some of the best statements are written as personal stories. We welcome your imaginative interpretation.
• You may define experience broadly. For example, in option B, experience could be a meeting with an influential person, a news story that spurred you to action, a family event, or something that might be insignificant to someone else that had particular meaning for you. If you don’t think that any one experience shaped your character, don’t worry. Simply choose an experience that tells us something about you.

California State University, Fullerton

UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM APPLICATION
for Transfer Students
Please provide typed responses for sections B – D below.
B. Educational and Career Goals
Describe your short term and long term educational and career goals. What do you intend to accomplish during your time at CSUF? What educational and career goals do you intend to pursue after you graduate from CSUF?
C. Essays
Please respond to one of the essay prompts below:

• Provide an essay of your most significant academic or personal achievement.
  
• What idea or concept introduced in a college-level course have you found to be the most intellectually stimulating? Briefly describe the idea or concept and explain how and why it has influenced you.
  
• What book or other creative work has made the greatest impact on your intellectual development? D. Letters of Reference
  Provide the name, title and school and/or organization of the persons providing your two 
• reference letters.
• E. Transcripts
  Include copies of transcripts from all post-secondary institutions and Titan Degree Audit. (Unofficial transcripts will be accepted.)
  Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please send all application materials to University Honors Program, California State University, Fullerton, PO Box 6830, Fullerton, CA. 92834-6830.
  APPLICATION CHECKLIST Please submit all required materials together
  General information (page 1)
  College coursework (Section A)
  Typed responses (Section B-D)
  2 Reference Letters (Section D)
  High school transcript & Titan Degree Audit (Section E) 

University of California, Los Angeles

Prompt #1
Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.
Prompt #2
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?
Following the personal statement, there’s a section called Additional Comments. Use this space — up to 550 words — to tell us anything you want us to know about you that you don’t have the opportunity to describe elsewhere in the application.