<p>Describe your personal characteristics, accomplishments, primary interests, plans, and goals. What sets you apart? Your essay should be about 500 words.</p>
<p>Just a cursory glance through the archives came up with this. If not the exact wording of the prompt, it gives you the flavor.</p>
<p>Also on that same archive thread, one parent noted that he/she had called the NM people and they told her that 1300 (old SAT) score was a good confirming score.</p>