St Olaf/Common Application
· Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
· Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
· Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
· Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
· A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
Gustavus
· Describe an experience that has had an impact on your life.
· Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
· Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you.
· Submit a paper you have written for a class.
Madison
· The University of Wisconsin–Madison values an educational environment that provides all members of the campus community with opportunities to grow and develop intellectually, personally, culturally and socially. In order to give us a more complete picture of you as an individual, please tell us about the particular life experiences, perspectives, talents, commitments and/or interests you will bring to our campus. In other words, how will your presence enrich our community?
· If there is additional information you would like us to consider in reviewing your application, please share this with us as well. This is your opportunity to tell us things about yourself that have not been asked elsewhere, if you believe they will help us become acquainted with you in ways different from courses, grades, and test scores.
