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Because transcripts, test scores, and awards lists provide only a partial picture of an applicant, we want to know more! Please write an original essay to give us more than the facts and figures. Feel free to focus on an experience, a philosophy, or a significant event (or invent a topic of your own). Our hope is to get to know you better. How you help us do that is up to you!
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<p>This is supposed to be different from the common app essay, correct? I am just making sure.</p>