UC Prompts Prompt 1: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality.

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UC Prompts Prompt 1: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are? Prompt 2: Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

Common Application Essay Prompts 1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. 2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. 3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence. NOTE: Your Common Application- essay should be the same for all colleges. Do not customize it in any way for individual colleges. Colleges that want customized essay responses will ask for them on a supplement form.

Common Application Essay Prompts 4. Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence. 5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you. 6. Topic of your choice. NOTE: Your Common Application- essay should be the same for all colleges. Do not customize it in any way for individual colleges. Colleges that want customized essay responses will ask for them on a supplement form.

Requirements for Writing a Personal Statement Write an essay of 500 words (no more no less—EXACTLY 500!) addressing one of the prompts listed (either UC or Commmon Application) Submit essay to turnitin.com by 11:59 June 12, 2012. Paper copy of essay due in class on June 13, 2012. Adhere to standard English Language Conventions