common application essay

A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.

On December 4th, a big applause was made by guests who were invited to a girl's first birthday. The girl had choice to pick one object among thread, pencil, money. When she picked pencil, which represents the girl will be smart, become scholarly person in the future in Korean superstition, her mom believed that her daughter will become a great person in the future. Later on, as she grew older and older, her parents bought and read many books to her, traveling historical cites with their lovely daughter to provide various experiences and knowledges. They also gave chances to their daughter to learn other activities such as piano, flute, taekwondo and supported her by praising, giving her confidence. When her father became a visiting professor at Syracuse University, he took whole family with him to give realistic experience of other world. Thanks to the parents' devoteness, their dearie daughter became a student with leadership, warm-heart and various experiences. When she was fourth grade, she saw her classmates complaining about outdated rest rooms. She wrote a letter to the principal requesting to remodel the rest rooms. The principal made a phone call to her mom, saying that he was impressed by young girl's leadership and he would remodel the rest rooms next month. From then on students were able to use clean rest rooms. She also became the class president during her middle and highschool days. She participated school acting club and showed wonderful performances to audiences. In addition, she volunteered to teach orphans Korean and English, visited hospital regularly to help the aged with dementia and became a mentally matured woman. Now she is challenging for another world. She believes that she will bring positive impact and influence to the new world. Now she jumps up the ground and begins to fly.