<p>Does intellectual development refer specifically to cerebral advancement or can intellectual development also refer to emotional advancements as well?</p>
<p>You can approach the question from different angles…including emotional development/intelligence…there is no right or wrong answer in how you convey this growth…</p>
<p>…before you start your essays think about all 3 questions carefully to make sure you don’t have too much “redundancy” and that each essay can convey something substantive and different you would like the admissions to KNOW about you…</p>
<p>…and most importantly, essays can be of any style…but the most successful essays bring out the true authentic VOICE and CHARACTER of the INDIVIDUAL in an INSIRING manner that cannot be explained anywhere else in your application…</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Here’s great advice from the Confessions from Stanford ([Confessions</a> from Stanford – ARCHIVED](<a href=“http://confessionsfromstanford.blogspot.com%5DConfessions”>http://confessionsfromstanford.blogspot.com)) blog:</p>
<p>"What is intellectual vitality? I honestly don’t know. I wrote an essay about it, and I still don’t know. But I do know this: I wrote about something I loved. I wrote a story about how I liked to multiply big numbers in my head when I was eight years old. 32 times 28? 896. (Yes, I just did that in my head.) I ended that essay with the passage:</p>
<p>“Over the summer, I went to a drama camp where I sang show tunes, danced the Charleston, and learned Meisner’s views on acting, but the one thing I remember most? How dang much I wished someone would come up to me and say, ‘Hey, you wanna do some Calculus?’”</p>
<p>This was the hardest essay for me to find a topic. And then I realized: I just had to write about something I loved. Write about something you love, and write it in a way that will capture your audience. Tell them a story, paint a picture, let them see why this is your passion, and why you love it so much. Let them know what makes you tick."</p>