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What would be your greatest contribution to the Franklin and Marshall community?
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<p>Could someone explain what "contribution to the community" means? What's included and what's not? </p>
<p>Leadership, academics, clubs, community service... Are these too basic or insignificant? I'm really stuck on this one. How can you predict what your greatest contribution will be? Even if you guess, how do you know what and where you will have opportunities?</p>
<p>Without revealing too much, could you give a brief summary of what you have written/plan to write?</p>
<p>I’m with you on this one; it’s not the best supplement question I’ve ever seen! I was just going to write about the diversity I’d bring to the campus: my list of interests, my acceptance of others, my beliefs, experiences, geographic location (I’m from Wa State, and from a public school:P), etc.</p>
<p>The thing that’s bugging me though is that it doesn’t give word limits or suggestions, so I have no idea how long of a response to do! :O</p>
<p>Maybe mention something about how you will bring tolerance and acceptance to the community… we’ve been having problems with some bad racial incidents.</p>
<p>My daughter has applied regular decision to F and M. She is Latina. I’m curious about the racial incidents that you mention. When we first started the process this was definitely her first choice. We visited on 4 different occasions, and she has interviewed there. She decided not to apply early to keep her options open. I think the diversity question is an issue.</p>
<p>My son is at F&M and he has no racial issues (he is AA). I believe the incidents people referred to were some ugly ugly remarks directed to Asian students. Some one please correct me if I have it wrong. I think this type of incident can happen on any college campus and the F&M administration took great steps immediately to get to the bottom of the issue.</p>
<p>Yup that’s exactly what the issue was, although they made it into a really big deal when actually it was just a bunch of drunk guys being idiots. Personally I’m more concerned with the lack of safety, Lancaster is a very dangerous place especially for college students. We just got an e-mail telling us that a girl in her early 20s (not a student apparently) was found raped and beaten almost to death about a half block off campus…very bad neighborhood surrounds campus to one side. Guess I won’t be going out anytime soon.</p>
<p>There are much “gentler” ways to say you take risks…and with the drug/alcohol issues on campus, I would be careful. I think it depends on how you qualify that “risk” in your discussion. Do you mean you are “eager to explore” your “curiosity is always alive” or do you mean “you will try anything once.” I think if you can qualify or accompany the idea of “taking risk” with an intellectual thought process, you will strengthen your discussion and mitigate a possible misunderstanding. Good luck!</p>