<p>"If you have participated in any significant research activity outside of school, please provide a brief description and limit your response to one or two paragraphs."</p>
<p>Is this part supposed to be an essay, in that it is important to demonstrate your personality and make it interesting? or is it purely a description of your research and accomplishments?</p>
<p>Also, any tips on writing the "why Duke" essay? I'm a little stuck on how I should approach it. Thanks!</p>
<p>If I understood it correctly, this is 90% - 100% descriptive. Given what I know of these types of prompts, I would cut the BS and just make it dry and technical. Leave the reflections and all that for the personal statement.</p>
<p>It’s a description of your research. It is a separate essay, and no you don’t your personality, if you did research (like working at a lab) then your describe what your project is, how you did it, and what is the result pretty much. It is simply like an abstract for a research project, except your describe what you did in more detail.</p>
<p>thanks, that’s what i suspected but i figured it would be a bad mistake to make if i was wrong :)</p>
<p>personally, i incorporated a description through my personality. i felt that would help bring myself one step further with the admissions officers.</p>