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Oct 13, 2015
Undergraduate / With ardor and devotion - Amore ac Studio. Bates supplement essay [4]
What draws you towards Bates? Consider the mission and statement to answer the question.(word limit :less than 500 words)
'With ardor and devotion - Amore ac Studio - we engage the transformative power of our differences, cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action'.
I am a passionate learner. Every time my teachers taught my class new topics, I asked questions about concepts that weren't clear to me. But I always ended up getting answers that barely made me satisfied. So later that day, I shared my confusion with my friends. Within no time, our conversation would turn into a debate, with most of my friends trying to prove that my concepts about certain topics were flawed. However, I wouldn't be satisfied by their arguments, even though I listened to them carefully. So I pondered upon those topics for hours. Finally, after carefully considering my friends' arguments, my teachers' answers and my own point of view, I would come up with logical conclusions for my queries.
The fact that Bates respects differences in perspectives and employs them to come to appropriate conclusions draws me towards the college. In addition, the remarkable history of enrolling student African-American slaves as students to respect the differences in color and inclusion of women in their first batch of students to respect the differences in gender, makes my admiration for Bates stronger. But to respect differences and openly admit what you believe in takes a great amount of courage. Every time I tried to question the validity of certain concepts and show my friends that there could be other feasible possibilities, the odds always seemed to be against me; most of my friends believed the other way round. In spite of being in the wrong side of the number supporting the cause, Bates has always stood for what it has believed. The support of optional SAT policy is the true testament of its bravery. To be a part of Bates would be to be around like-minded like me, who support what they believe in and respect differences. Eventually, among similar people like me, I can evolve into a person with a good knowledge about different issues that would help me to support the right cause to make the world a better place.
What draws you towards Bates? Consider the mission and statement to answer the question.(word limit :less than 500 words)
'With ardor and devotion - Amore ac Studio - we engage the transformative power of our differences, cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action'.
I am a passionate learner. Every time my teachers taught my class new topics, I asked questions about concepts that weren't clear to me. But I always ended up getting answers that barely made me satisfied. So later that day, I shared my confusion with my friends. Within no time, our conversation would turn into a debate, with most of my friends trying to prove that my concepts about certain topics were flawed. However, I wouldn't be satisfied by their arguments, even though I listened to them carefully. So I pondered upon those topics for hours. Finally, after carefully considering my friends' arguments, my teachers' answers and my own point of view, I would come up with logical conclusions for my queries.
The fact that Bates respects differences in perspectives and employs them to come to appropriate conclusions draws me towards the college. In addition, the remarkable history of enrolling student African-American slaves as students to respect the differences in color and inclusion of women in their first batch of students to respect the differences in gender, makes my admiration for Bates stronger. But to respect differences and openly admit what you believe in takes a great amount of courage. Every time I tried to question the validity of certain concepts and show my friends that there could be other feasible possibilities, the odds always seemed to be against me; most of my friends believed the other way round. In spite of being in the wrong side of the number supporting the cause, Bates has always stood for what it has believed. The support of optional SAT policy is the true testament of its bravery. To be a part of Bates would be to be around like-minded like me, who support what they believe in and respect differences. Eventually, among similar people like me, I can evolve into a person with a good knowledge about different issues that would help me to support the right cause to make the world a better place.
