There may be personal information that you want considered as part of your admissions application. Write an essay describing that information. You might include exceptional hardships, challenges, or opportunities that have shaped or impacted your abilities or academic credentials, personal responsibilities, exceptional achievements or talents, educational goals, or ways in which you might contribute to an institution committed to creating a diverse learning environment.

The question requires a written essay describing personal information about yourself as the applicant applying for admission.

Key points are given to describe yourself in this essay.

Write about the following points:

- hardships (any event or occurrence or incident that stands out dramatically)

- challenges (any experiences with considerable amount of difficulty you have had to overcome)

- opportunities that have shaped you (any experiences or achievements which have been advantageous to you and will stand you in good stead in any situation)

- personal responsibilities (tasks that you are solely resposible for)

- educational goals (achievements you wish to aspire to and work towards in your academic career).

For your essay in describing yourself, write a well developed paragraph on each key point listed above (use the description in brackets to help you).

Explanation:

An academic essay (whether it descriptive, argumentative, etc) has key components which drive its success.

-Introduction (consisting of an attention grabber or introductory sentence, background information, a plan of development and thesis statement)

-the body of the essay is written over the key points you list in your introduction as a plan of development. (refer key points discussed above to write the body of your descriptive essay in well developed paragraphs.

-conclusion (consisting of restating your thesis statement and plan of development). Essentially, the conclusion mirrors your introduction.

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).