Williams College supplement essay

College Essays
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The essay supplement for Williams is:

At Williams we believe that bringing together students and professors in small groups produces extraordinary academic outcomes. Our distinctive Oxford-style tutorial classes—in which two students are guided by a professor in deep exploration of a single topic—are a prime example. Each week the students take turns developing independent work—an essay, a problem set, a piece of art—and critiquing their partner’s work. Focused on close reading, writing, and oral defense of ideas, more than 60 tutorials a year are offered across the curriculum, with titles like "Aesthetic Outrage, "Financial Crises: Causes and Cures, and "Genome Sciences: At the Cutting Edge.”

Imagine yourself in a tutorial at Williams. Of anyone in the world, whom would you choose to be the other student in the class, and why?

(Please limit your response to 300 words.)

What are they asking for? Am I supposed to pick some famous person, make someone up…? How can I tell them more about myself in it, and is that even what they want?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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This is a “Who inspires you?” question.

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I disagree with hhjjlala. Sure, you can write the “who inspires you” answer, like most applicants probably will. But that’s boring and doesn’t answer the question. The real question lies at the heart of why you want to go to a place like Williams: who challenges you? Who makes you the best and most curious student you can be? DD attends WC and that’s what she wrote about.