Prompt: 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.
I felt that my essay looks like I have inadvertently abused my thesaurus and that it is slightly generic. However, I can't think of any way to remove that and maintain the effect. Can there be a better and more potent way to end this? All suggestions and critique are welcome :)
Wading through some 50+ US colleges that featured on the US News website, I felt despondent. With tears of anger and frustration I saw Duke University in the top ten. "Sounds familiar", I thought to myself as I clicked on the link, only to fall through the rabbit hole straight to Wonderland, where everything is possible.
Coming across Duke University incited the childish feeling of fitting the last piece of a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle; this is it. The lush green campus and picturesque Gothic buildings, the city of Durham with its unpretentious suburban culture, the smiling faces of the students and the faculty, and most of all the brilliant and positive take for the development of tomorrow's leaders really made me feel like I have found my niche. This feeling was empowered strongly when I read about the variety of topics that research was conducted on. The prominence of research work at Duke University was obvious when I came across several articles on different websites and journals about the breakthroughs made by the faculty and students at Duke University on an almost daily basis. A deep-rooted desire for answers to just about every question that may pop in my head made me deeply appreciative of the emphasis that Duke placed on developing today's solutions to yesterday's problems, to make a better tomorrow. To conduct progress, not for the sake of progress, but for the meaningful purpose of enhanced education and stronger, increasingly polymathic people in the next generation is an educational philosophy at Duke, clearly embodied in its stress on interdisciplinary courses. Duke University clearly mentions in its website that it requires students who are curious, funny, enthusiastic and stubbornly resilient about their cause. I appreciate, propound and revere that. I have craved for a place where I am stimulated to grow in every way, where I can open my mind and not be afraid of crossing manmade boundaries, where I can really push myself beyond "the limit" and let myself be. And I believe Duke can be all that, and much more.
I felt that my essay looks like I have inadvertently abused my thesaurus and that it is slightly generic. However, I can't think of any way to remove that and maintain the effect. Can there be a better and more potent way to end this? All suggestions and critique are welcome :)
Wading through some 50+ US colleges that featured on the US News website, I felt despondent. With tears of anger and frustration I saw Duke University in the top ten. "Sounds familiar", I thought to myself as I clicked on the link, only to fall through the rabbit hole straight to Wonderland, where everything is possible.
Coming across Duke University incited the childish feeling of fitting the last piece of a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle; this is it. The lush green campus and picturesque Gothic buildings, the city of Durham with its unpretentious suburban culture, the smiling faces of the students and the faculty, and most of all the brilliant and positive take for the development of tomorrow's leaders really made me feel like I have found my niche. This feeling was empowered strongly when I read about the variety of topics that research was conducted on. The prominence of research work at Duke University was obvious when I came across several articles on different websites and journals about the breakthroughs made by the faculty and students at Duke University on an almost daily basis. A deep-rooted desire for answers to just about every question that may pop in my head made me deeply appreciative of the emphasis that Duke placed on developing today's solutions to yesterday's problems, to make a better tomorrow. To conduct progress, not for the sake of progress, but for the meaningful purpose of enhanced education and stronger, increasingly polymathic people in the next generation is an educational philosophy at Duke, clearly embodied in its stress on interdisciplinary courses. Duke University clearly mentions in its website that it requires students who are curious, funny, enthusiastic and stubbornly resilient about their cause. I appreciate, propound and revere that. I have craved for a place where I am stimulated to grow in every way, where I can open my mind and not be afraid of crossing manmade boundaries, where I can really push myself beyond "the limit" and let myself be. And I believe Duke can be all that, and much more.
