Common App Prompt

<p>A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you. </p>

<p>I'm thinking about writing about growing up in Iowa... would this be good or too broad?</p>

<p>Is there a specific event that happened in Iowa that you will write about? It may be a little broad, but if you write about specific experiences, you could make it work.</p>

<p>well i think that makes me different and so i was just going to write about the whole thing, but i would throw in a examples and stuff to illustrate my point...</p>