2017 Short Essay Questions (for RD and Deferred EA applicants only) - UGA Undergraduate Admissions

2017 Short Essay Questions (for RD and Deferred EA applicants only) - UGA Undergraduate Admissions 2017 Short Essay Questions (for RD and Deferred EA applicants only) Every year, our office reviews the freshman application for changes that we would like to see for the next year. During this review, we also look at the short essay questions that are required for First Year applicants who apply Regular Decision or are deferred Early Action (Early Action applicants do not submit essays unless they are deferred). We were very pleased with the responses we received last year, so we are keeping the same essays for 2017 as we had for 2016. We require one short essay that all RD or deferred EA applicants must complete, and three additional short essay topics with the applicant selecting to respond to two of these. Essay 1 should be between 200-300 words, while essays 2-4 should be between 150 to 200 words, but remember to focus on substance and not word count. Before submitting your application and essays, always remember to proofread and edit! The First Year application will be available on September 1, but we thought that some people would want to know the essays earlier than that date. Here are the four essay questions as we now have them, with Essay 1 being required (200-300 words) and Essays 2-4 being three options from which the applicant can select two (150-200 words). (Required) The UGA faculty has defined the qualities that the student body should demonstrate in the Admissions Philosophy Statement. After reviewing this, help us understand which of your qualities will add value to our community of scholars. (200-300 words) Describe a problem, possibly related to your area of study, which you would like to solve. Explain its importance to you and what actions you would take to solve this issue. (150-200 words) Tell us an interesting or amusing story about yourself that you have not already shared in your application. (150-200 words) UGA’s First Year Odyssey Program offers more than 300 seminar courses for new freshmen. Some examples include “The History of Horseracing”, “Einstein and the Theories of Relativity” and “The Zombie Plague”. If you could create your own seminar course at UGA in any subject area that interested you, what would it be? What would the course be named and what would you hope to learn? Please write your response in the style of the UGA First Year Odyssey descriptions as seen on their website. (150-200 words) Since I have been focused on getting a new recruitment system up and running this year, I was not able to review as many applications this past winter/spring, and thus I did not pull out any specific essays from this last application cycle. As such, here is a great essay from 2 years ago: Its Christmas morning. Im asleep in a beautiful princess bed adorned with flowers and puffy pink pillows. Ive always slept with Weez on Christmas Eve. Now let me make a little sense of all of this. Weez is my little sister (her nickname) and we always have a slumber party in her room on Christmas Eve. Seeing her experience the magic of Christmas never gets old even when shes kicking me and stealing the sheets at two in the morning. I cant help but feel the same things she does when she first wakes up and realizes what day it is. Then comes the mad dash downstairs to see what fun toys Santa left under the tree. Once all of the presents are opened, Weez always seems to have more fun playing with the boxes than the toys that came out of them. Sitting there, building a box fort with her, I realize that shes the present Im most thankful for. Shes taught me how to be more appreciative of the people around me than the things around me. Wow. Here I am with one of the greatest presents of all, my adopted sister. Griffin H., thank you for letting us share your essay with future applicants to UGA.