Personal Statement: Topic: Describe a significant experience from the past two years which required you to interact with someone outside of your own social or cultural group (ethnic, religious, geographic, socio-economic, etc.). How did this impact you? What did you learn and what surprised you? In elementary school, my parents began taking me to a local church every Thanksgiving to help prepare food for the turkey dinner the church hosted for the surrounding homeless people. That tradition carried on every...

The single thing that helped me gain success most in my college application process was an internship that I had in journalism (which is the field I am interested in). Although internships may not be paid and seem like a lot of work,...