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Personal Essay 1
Most should write both.
A. Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.

B. Choose an issue of importance to you—the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope—and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.
Submit this essay in place of Essay A when applying for admission to architecture, art history, design, studio art, or visual art studies/art education.

D. Major-specific essay

Personal interaction with objects, images and spaces can be so powerful as to change the way one thinks about particular issues or topics. For your intended area of study (architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual art studies/art education), describe an experience where instruction in that area or your personal interaction with an object, image or space effected this type of change in your thinking. What did you do to act upon your new thinking and what have you done to prepare yourself for further study in this area?