<p>List five books (with authors) that piqued your curiosity. Pick one and explain why you look forward to discussing it with your roommate over coffee at Campus Grounds.</p>
<p>What outrages you? What are you doing about it? Tell us about a time when you stepped up against an outrage in your community.</p>
<p>Give us your top ten list.</p>
<p>According to author Walker Percy, At regular intervals, poetry students should find dogfish on their desks and biology students should find Shakespeare sonnets in their dissecting trays. Explain why you agree or disagree.</p>
<p>Some say social media is superficial, with no room for expressing deep or complex ideas. We challenge you to defy these skeptics by describing yourself as fully and accurately as possible in the 140-character limit of a tweet.</p>
<p>Research shows that members of Generation Y (16-24 year olds) are more tolerant of difference than were previous generations at this age - but also less likely to form close bonds with those of different demographic or socioeconomic backgrounds. How have you personally disproved this generalization?</p>
<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument." Describe a time when your argument challenged a basic belief or viewpoint of your "sect."</p>
<p>I like all of them, but what kind of words limits are we looking at here? There might be a little bit too much freedom here.</p>
<p>According to author Walker Percy, “At regular intervals, poetry students should find dogfish on their desks and biology students should find Shakespeare sonnets in their dissecting trays.” Explain why you agree or disagree. </p>
<p>That’s the point-- they want to see where you go with it! For example, I gave a Top Ten list that was like an ‘instruction manual’ for me, as if they had bought a robot version of me from the store. It was pretty silly; I included things about how much I like queso, need coffee to survive, etc.</p>
<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument.” Describe a time when your argument challenged a basic belief or viewpoint of your "sect.</p>
<p>I absolutely hate that sect prompt. If you go against a basic viewpoint or idea of a sect, then you are obviously not part of that sect. It seems extremely illogical to me.</p>
<p>I think you can look at it from the perspective of how people might make assumptions about you because of your sect, and how you have dealt with what might be wrong or negative assumptions. And a sect can be anything. I can be your football team, your religion, your nationality, your culture, your lifestyle…anything like that.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the only difference between the essays on the WFApplication and the CommonApp “WF supplemental essay link” is the last question about King Arthur? Otherwise are the essay questions exactly the same on both applications? My D wants to apply using Common App, but I feel she should answer King Arthur question which does not seem to appear on the common app link for supplemental WFU essays.</p>
<p>To be completely honest I find it extremely tedious…I gotta get it done by DEC 1st though probably the longest supplement of any school I’m applying to</p>
<p>I feel like there are too many diversity questions of different sorts (Generation Y, dogfish, arguably the outrage and sect). The Generation Y, outrage, and sect ones, in particular, make me tired just thinking about answering all three.
I understand, though, that they’re trying to see more of who you are, and whether you can be creative even with confusing prompts.
For example, the sect one. Google defines sect as
“a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong.”
This is potentially a pretty problematic definition to use in the essay, especially for people who chose their “sect” because of agreement with its basic beliefs (or, people who don’t have one). But it’s hard to tell how far the definition of “sect” can be stretched without missing the point of what they’re trying to find out about.</p>
<p>I just have to weigh-in in favor of the prompts. I think my son found them interesting and fun to respond to. They certainly allowed “his voice” to come through. I think at the end of the day, the best course of action is just to answer from the heart.</p>
<p>do you guys think I could write about like how I am really different from teenagers that surround me and I have completely different views from them for the sect prompt? I honestly can’t think of anything else…</p>
<p>^ if you’re specific about the differences, and make sure they’re not snotty “I care so much more about succeeding” type things, I’m sure that’d be fine. That’s kind of the direction I’m going.</p>
<p>How are y’all disproving that we’re “less likely to form close bonds with those of different demographic or socioeconomic backgrounds”? The only thing I can think to say is like “I’ve made very close friends with people who are different from me in x way” but that’s so boring.</p>
<p>I only have the sect prompt left, and I still have absolutely no idea what to put there. The whole point of prompt just seems so contradictory I can’t draw anything from it. Could I write about being an atheist in a catholic school? Using a catholic school as a sect? With that, I couldn’t think of any arguments I could be different from.</p>
<p>am i the only one who thinks the one about different generations makes absolutely no sense…young adults are more approving of differences than older people but at the same time, older people are more likely to be friends with different people? ***?</p>
<p>I just sent in my application. I really wasn’t a fan of many of the prompts tbh, but I still had fun answering them once I thought of something.</p>
<p>For the sect one I wrote about homophobia at my private christian high school.
generation Y I wrote about people from pennsylvania I met on a missions trip… kind of random. </p>
<p>My tweet was a link to a photo saying “I don’t even use twitter”</p>