Essay prompts

Seattle

• What are your goals for international internship experience?
• What kind of experience are you hoping to gain from your placement?
• What are your priorities for the placement?
• Do you require a lot of supervision or do you prefer to work independently?
• Do you want to be given a specific project or do you enjoy being involved in a variety of tasks?
• What size office would you like? (Remember: bigger does not always equal better, more opportunities are usually available to students at smaller organizations)
• What are your strengths? Weaknesses? How can we use these to your advantage when looking for a placement for you?
• Where do you hope to be one year from now? Five years?

What experience do you have and is it relevant to the kind of placements you have in mind? Keep in mind the type of experiences you’ve already had and how those can be applied in an international context

Ohio State university

·    Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

·     Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

·    Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.

·  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.

·    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.

·        Topic of your choice.

Notre Dame essay prompt

Please select three of the following five prompts and provide a response between 150 and 300 words to each. Your responses will be read by Notre Dame admissions staff as we seek to lrean more about you. We encourage you to use personal examples, anecodtes, or anything that helps differentiate you from your peers.

1.       In his 2005 inaugural address, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, challenged our community: “We at Notre Dame must have the courage to be who we are. If we are afraid to be different from the world, how can we make a difference in the world?” When you leave Notre Dame, what is one way you will bravely face the world, stay true to your values, and make a difference large or small?

2.       What is your proudest accomplishment that doesn’t appear on your résumé — an act for which you did not receive a trophy, grade, or other type of outward recognition?

3.       Tell us about a time you fell in love… with an academic concept. What excited you about this idea, project, or lesson?

4.       Why are you interested in attending the University of Notre Dame?

5.       By the end of the college application process, you will have probably written dozens of essays and responded to a multitude of questions. Use this opportunity to try something  new