Falling in Accidental Love with Physics Sitting in the back of the bus sophomore year, I had my tattered copy of The Bell Jar opened to a dog-eared page and was humming absentmindedly. An idea for a new poem crossed my mind, so I scribbled it in the margin. In the seat in front of me, a few guys were talking about Science Olympiad and turned around to ask if I would be interested in joining the team. It was...

Ms. Hutchinson is the literary magazine faculty adviser at my school, so, as copy editor of that publication, I essentially live in her classroom. A few weeks ago, I noticed a college literary magazine called Hobart Park from spring of 2013 laying on one of her cabinets and leafed through it to see if it contained anything interesting. To my surprise, I discovered that this was a literary magazine from Davidson, and I read the foreword that detailed the arts community...

Davidson has an incredibly strong sense of community and is unique in that it is a small enough school to truly...

For my "why Davidson" essay, I wrote about a specific experience I had reviewing the school's literary magazine and how...

Choose a teacher who knows you both in and outside of class. You want someone who knows you as a person, not just as a student. You also want to...

After undergrad, I plan to pursue...

You don't want to apply to too many schools because that is just an overwhelming amount of work and, in reality, you can only go to one. You want to make sure that you have one or two safe schools that you are above the stats for and know that you will get into. Other than that, only apply...

I believe that my strength as an applicant lied in the fact that I stressed interdisciplinary skill sets...