My personal statement was about my experience doing marine research in high school. I commented on how I had always seen research as scientific and precise, but when you begin doing research in the field, things get messy. Especially because my research involved SCUBA diving, there were lots of logical issues and the entire research process was very different than I expected it to be. I concluded with how research was more challenging than I had ever expected, and yet...

Personally, I did research during high school. Because I knew I was interested in research science, this was a great way to see...

Northwestern is really good at a variety of things. I came into college as a walk on division 1 athlete and it was important for me...