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Millions of high school seniors around the country are busy penning college admissions essays based on prompts like the thought-provoking ones below, which we pulled from this year’s applications. What would you write? Tell us at parade.com/college.


BARNARD COLLEGE “Pick one woman in history or fiction to


converse with for an hour and explain your choice. What would you talk about?”


COMMON APPLICATION [The Common Application is a


universal form used by more than 500 American colleges.] “Describe a place or environ- ment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?”


HARVARD UNIVERSITY “What [would you] want your fu-


ture college roommate to know about you?”


POMONA COLLEGE “What does freedom mean to you?”


RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF


DESIGN “Is there something you love, have to do, can’t stop thinking about? Write about a personal passion or obsession other than visual art or design.”


TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY “Describe a circumstance,


obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?”


WEST POINT “Why will you be successful in working with


leaders, peers, and subor- dinates of a gender, color, ethnicity, and/or religion differ- ent from your own?”


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