I was born with [name of disease], which is a really long way of saying that my muscles have progressively gotten weaker and contracted since my birth. At around the age of 4 or 5 my muscles got too weak for me to walk, so I got my first wheelchair and my family moved into a one-story home. My condition is a relatively new disease in terms of research being done, and I am part of one of the first clinical trials...

I spent the month of July this past summer at the David Rittenhouse Laboratories in a Penn Summer Discovery Experimental Physics Academy. It was an eye-opening experience. I had been on college campuses before, but I had never spent a lengthy period of time on one and certainly had I never taken a course. The work we did at the Labs solidified my interest in physics and math, as well as my interest in Penn’s College of Arts and...

For my "Why Penn" essay, I used a specific instance I had...