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If you are applying to Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, please discuss why you consider Duke a good match for you. Is there something in particular at Duke that attracts you? Please limit your response to one or two paragraphs.
"Attention Seniors! A Duke University representative is in the lyceum. The session will start in 10 minutes," the intercom blared over my head. It was a good opportunity to skip class I thought to myself as I packed my things up and told my teacher I was interested in going to the presentation. When I first heard about Duke University I barely gave it a second thought. It was too far from my home in California and it was located in some random city in North Carolina where it would be too cold for me; it wasn't an option. Before drafting my list of schools to apply to, I spent a great deal of time deciding my major simply because I couldn't pick just one. Throughout high school there were just so many things I wanted to learn and I anticipated a chance to learn everything-I was greedy for knowledge. Politics, economics, law, sociology, psychology, and philosophy were just some of the many things I intended to explore at college. However, no school truly gave me the opportunity to try everything I wanted to, there were too many limitations everywhere. After listening to what the admissions representative had to say my perspective on Duke University completely shifted: I had finally found my dream school. During my research for schools I looked for a place where I could design my own education without boundaries and study what I feel is important. The encouragement of originality and the intensity of intellectual freedom at Duke gives me just that: an opportunity to quench my thirst for knowledge. The freshman curriculum based on the six Modes of Inquiry allows students a focused yet unique program that will cater to their personal and professional needs. After all, global warming cannot be solved by simply learning chemistry or physics; it is a combination of public policy and international relations as well many other disciplines.
With its low faculty-to-student ratio, Duke will give students like me a chance for hands on learning and teamwork: where learning happens beyond the classroom. A chat with a professor would be just as enlightening as attending a lecture. Apart from the academics, I also want to avail the DukeEngage program to help foster my education beyond the four walls of a classroom. To me, this program is an opportunity for students to implement what they have learned and explore further what they have imagined. Dukes advocacy of education beyond a lecture hall is among the reasons why this school attracts me. For a person like me, hands-on learning is the key to success. Personally, I need to experience something for myself before I truly understand it. For me, learning economics is more than just studying causes and effects, its about a global community and learning about that requires more than a textbook. At the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, where the only freshman requirement is a Writing 20 course and First-year seminar, I'll be able to mold myself a curriculum that keeps me satiated and captivated for the next four years.
If you are applying to Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, please discuss why you consider Duke a good match for you. Is there something in particular at Duke that attracts you? Please limit your response to one or two paragraphs.
"Attention Seniors! A Duke University representative is in the lyceum. The session will start in 10 minutes," the intercom blared over my head. It was a good opportunity to skip class I thought to myself as I packed my things up and told my teacher I was interested in going to the presentation. When I first heard about Duke University I barely gave it a second thought. It was too far from my home in California and it was located in some random city in North Carolina where it would be too cold for me; it wasn't an option. Before drafting my list of schools to apply to, I spent a great deal of time deciding my major simply because I couldn't pick just one. Throughout high school there were just so many things I wanted to learn and I anticipated a chance to learn everything-I was greedy for knowledge. Politics, economics, law, sociology, psychology, and philosophy were just some of the many things I intended to explore at college. However, no school truly gave me the opportunity to try everything I wanted to, there were too many limitations everywhere. After listening to what the admissions representative had to say my perspective on Duke University completely shifted: I had finally found my dream school. During my research for schools I looked for a place where I could design my own education without boundaries and study what I feel is important. The encouragement of originality and the intensity of intellectual freedom at Duke gives me just that: an opportunity to quench my thirst for knowledge. The freshman curriculum based on the six Modes of Inquiry allows students a focused yet unique program that will cater to their personal and professional needs. After all, global warming cannot be solved by simply learning chemistry or physics; it is a combination of public policy and international relations as well many other disciplines.
With its low faculty-to-student ratio, Duke will give students like me a chance for hands on learning and teamwork: where learning happens beyond the classroom. A chat with a professor would be just as enlightening as attending a lecture. Apart from the academics, I also want to avail the DukeEngage program to help foster my education beyond the four walls of a classroom. To me, this program is an opportunity for students to implement what they have learned and explore further what they have imagined. Dukes advocacy of education beyond a lecture hall is among the reasons why this school attracts me. For a person like me, hands-on learning is the key to success. Personally, I need to experience something for myself before I truly understand it. For me, learning economics is more than just studying causes and effects, its about a global community and learning about that requires more than a textbook. At the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, where the only freshman requirement is a Writing 20 course and First-year seminar, I'll be able to mold myself a curriculum that keeps me satiated and captivated for the next four years.
