Undergraduate / NYU SUPP-- 2050 movie, short poem, why NYU [7]

It's nice how your summer paragraph and the movie paragraph both talk about your experience in India. Good Luck.

Undergraduate / "the quick pace of life" University of Washington, Diverse Community Short Essay [4]

I agree with above.
Your intro is kind of dull. don't just remove it but try making it more interesting by having like a thesis statement that foreshadows what you are going to be talking about