<p>I’m a bit at a loss at what to write for this essay: “Give specific examples of any unusual talents or skills you possess, and any achievements you think are important, but are not described elsewhere in your credentials.”</p>
<p>Do they [Scripps Admissions officers] expect this to be very significant or in-depth? Sadly, I suffer from a lack of ‘unusual talent’ and academic achievement.</p>
<p>I guess you could make it in-depth if you had a significant “unusual” talent but I don’t think it’s supposed to be too deep. I guess some examples of talents might be the ability to ride a unicycle, speak another language, cook or bake really well, debate, or ride a horse. You could search the forums for some more… But I don’t think there’s a set type of answer the admissions committee is looking for. It’s probably supposed to be a place where you can just throw out some characteristics of yourself you might not have mentioned elsewhere in your application and that adds something to what they already know of you. </p>
<p>By the way, mine was just a few bullet points.</p>
<p>I said I made mixes- music mixes for my friends and stuff. I don’t know, I didn’t take it too seriously.</p>
<p>I think that my freshman year, the President’s orientation speech pulled from this particular application question. I can’t know for certain, but if it isn’t the case, then I have zero idea where some of the info could have come from. So…</p>
<p>*If I’m correct<a href=“treading%20carefully%20here”>/i</a>…</p>
<p>Examples of admitted students’ responses include:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Being able to do the splits in three different directions, including against a wall (photos included).</p></li>
<li><p>Being able to tell M&M’s apart by taste alone (“Until blue. Blue changed everything”).</p></li>
<li><p>Sailing around the world.</p></li>
<li><p>Being a professional dancer with the Atlanta Ballet.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Four years later, those are the only ones that I remember. Looks pretty open-ended and not necessarily too in-depth. Honesty seems key :)</p>
<p>Ok, I kinda have an idea of what to put. Thanks to everyone responded :)</p>
<p>just curious violet…what are you putting down?</p>
<p>Yikes. D didn’t fill in anything because she didn’t think it was required. I guess we can eliminate one admittance possibility?</p>
<p>I’m sure that such an error wouldn’t cause admissions to toss a whole file, especially if the rest of the application was strong. I personally don’t know either way, but it hasn’t been established in this thread that the question was required, anyway.</p>
<p>For any of your daughter’s future applications, though, a good lesson: why waste the opportunity?</p>
<p>Mine was about throwing discus :)…I applied for this year, so we’ll see soon enough 
Good luck, all.</p>
<p>I thought I’d revive this thread since last night my D was in a fix and couldn’t think of what to put until I had her read it. Thought it may help anyone else applying RD to Scripps.</p>
<p>For those of you who alrady hit “submit” What did you put?</p>
<p>I wrote about how I started a biking group in Chicago.</p>
<p>cool! Initiative is good. She wrote about her ability to memorize including the fact that she knows every US president in order, every state’s location and capital (thanks Carmen San Diego) and the dialogue of any number of movies. It doesn’t show initiative but is at least as worthwhile as doing the splits three ways. 
who else?</p>
<p>I just submitted my app today, and I wrote about my talent of generating ideas to aid in the community present at my school. </p>
<p>It’s wonderful that all us Scrippsies/potential Scrippsies have so much talent :)</p>
<p>WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT…WAS IT REQUIRED!!! it wasn’t in BOLD so i thought that meant it wasn’t required…i already submitted it!!! ahhhhh someone respond!</p>
<p>It was not required! I applied ED1, didn’t answer it, and was accepted.</p>
<p>oh okay, thank you SO much! congrats on getting in :)!</p>