Growing up, I created my narrative through stories, and the lack of them. There was a t.A.T.u. music video playing on TV and my mother hurriedly changing the channel, alarmed, while telling me those people are sick. There is a boy who spent his high school years hiding, yet whenever he passed by the girls would scorn and the boys would kick him. There are all these people laughing when they heard that the boy had committed...

The prompt was about the best gift we've ever given/been given, and I wrote about a small gift one of the girls I saw every week at the orphanage while I was studying abroad gave me and its significance to me.

Getting involved with multiple extracurricular activities from different fields gave me...

Multiple college interviews asked me about my favorite course in high...

Students at my school are highly active in their extracurriculars, very...

I would work on the issue of transparency between...

I would have made my personal statement, essays, and extracurriculars more connected together and foremost, more connected to what I want to...