<p>Take a look on virginia.edu…</p>
<p>what are you guys gonna pick for number 2?</p>
<p>please paste them here…i dunno how to find them</p>
<p>2007 FIRST YEAR ESSAY QUESTIONS</p>
<p>(1) Please answer the question that corresponds to the school you selected on Part I of your application in half a page, or roughly 250 words.
College of Arts and Sciences: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised or unsettled or challenged you, and in what way?</p>
<p>School of Engineering: Discuss experiences that led you to choose an engineering education at U.Va. and the role that scientific curiosity plays in your life.</p>
<p>School of Architecture: What led you to apply to the School of Architecture?</p>
<p>School of Nursing: Discuss experiences that led you to choose the School of Nursing.</p>
<p>(2) Answer one of the following questions. Limit your response to half a page, or approximately 250 words.</p>
<p>a. What is your favorite word, and why?
b. Describe the world you come from and how that world shaped who you are.
c. "Belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. " (Franz Kafka) Do you have a belief that is like a guillotine? In what way?
d. What kind of diversity will you bring to U.Va.?
e. “We might say that we were looking for global schemas, symmetries, universal and unchanging laws - and what we have discovered is the mutable, the ephemeral, the complex.” Support or challenge Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine’s assertion.
f. According to J.H Plumb, “History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.” According to George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Discuss your point of view. </p>
<p>(3) Please write on a topic of your choice.</p>
<p>If an essay question for another college piqued your interest, feel free to to submit your response to that question. Please limit your submission to one page, or approximately 500 words.</p>
<p>Topic of choice ftw</p>
<p>what is ftw</p>
<p>by the way, you have to do all three. u can only pick in numbers one and two.</p>
<p>wow, UVa is making a big effort to get some intellectuals.</p>
<p>ftw means “for the win” it’s basically like saying “woot for topic of your choice!!”</p>
<p>Ewww number two got way harder this year. For me at least, none of them really jumps out as something I’d do. Last year I picked what’s your favorite natural phenomenon, it’s not here this year. =( I guess I’d choose c this year.</p>
<p>Id pick the guillotine topic.</p>
<p>They’ve been posted on the Office of Admission site for a few weeks now. I should have thought to post them here.
Really? We only changed two of the choices (c and f) and that was the only change to the essay portion of the appilcation. I think #2 now gives you more of a chance to show your personality; To tell us about who you are. </p>
<p>That natural phenomenon had a lot of potential, but many students went for the basics: thunderstorms or the northern lights.</p>
<p>I hated the essay topics when I applied. These ones don’t look much better. When I was applying, I wasn’t planning on coming to UVA, so I didn’t do the essays until the night before (which happened to be the night of the Orange Bowl (when USC beat Oklahoma…). I was cocky and felt that I had a right to be admitted regardless of how much time I spent on my essays, so I pounded out some random stuff in about an hour and submitted them. They ended up being decent essays and I think the admissions people liked them.</p>
<p>I don’t really think essays matter all that much for UVA. I used my essays from other college applications last year, and they barely related to /answered the question.</p>
<p>I personally believe that UVA is number-driven. If you have the hard courses, good grades and SAT/ACT you should be set. You might disagree with me. Also, I think UVA is a lot easier to get into instate than most people realize. From my really average public high school 22+ people got in, and like only four or five did not get in (but then again, a lot of these people would not have told other students about their decision)</p>
<p>good luck to all the new people on their college apps. You next few months will by far be the most stressful of your high school career, but it all pays out at the end, and you feel so much better come Dec 15 or April 1</p>
<p>are the transfer essay questions up yet?</p>
<p>For question 2, I don’t think UVA should give people that many choices; it should be boiled down to 2 choices at the most.</p>
<p>“I personally believe that UVA is number-driven.”</p>
<p>UVa isn’t the old UMichigan.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize we had “Dean J” on here. </p>
<p>Which essay would you recommend and why?</p>
<p>Which essay would she recommend? She’d probably recommend whichever topic you can expand upon the best.</p>
<p>i think im going to go with choice f</p>
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Cav’s dead on. </p>
<p>DO NOT pick essay topics based on what you think will impress admission people. The result is usually forced and overly academic, lacking personality. </p>
<p>That being said, don’t go for the obvious. I can’t tell you how many Da Vinci Code essays we read in response to #1 last year. Even if you wrote an amazing essay on that topic, it was lumped together with all the other Da Vinci Code essays.</p>
<p>Parke Muth, a Dean and the Director of International Admission in our office, wrote a great article about essays. If you haven’t read it yet, there’s a link to it on the front of the Office of Admission website. It’s worth the read!</p>