UVA Supplemental Essay topics!

<p>The prompt for the College of Arts and Sciences is: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way? </p>

<p>I wanted to write about a movie and I wasn't sure if it was 1) considered art by the UVA adcom and 2) academic enough for admissions. My counselor said I need to write something with an academic scope, but I'm really not feeling her idea...</p>

<p>A movie is fine. UVA has scholars writing and teaching about film in its English and Media Studies departments. What’s important is that your essay is intelligent and well-written.</p>