Prompt: When choosing a college, you are choosing an intellectual community and a place where you believe that you can live, learn, and flourish. To this end, the Board of Admission is interested in knowing your reasons for applying to Wellesley College and how Wellesley will help you to realize your personal and academic goals.
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Wellesley is known for her commitment to providing a vigorous and all-embracing environment where students will be able to find out about themselves and the answer to their inquiries of the world. To be exact, the emphasis on interdisciplinary and interdepartmental studies throughout the campus particularly attracts me. My interest in economics derives from an intense curiosity to understand the world. By adopting mathematical and other scientific methods, economics help me interpret human behaviors in daily life. Economic phenomenon is knotted in our life, and I take delight in relating economics to real life experience to explain the seemingly abnormal phenomenon. Moreover, I have developed a deep love for the nature all these years. I have kept mountain climbing since I joined a Mountaineering Club in grade 6, and I have also set my foot on many countries and places over the world. I dived into the blue sea and swam with the colorful sea fish in Thailand; I canoed along the Whanganui River of New Zealand; I visited the Village of Gurna in Egypt, where the villagers totally relied on one well for living; I danced with the Tibetans by the side of Namtso Lake. Although I was strongly impressed by the beautiful natural scenes, I could not help feeling sad that many places might be ruined gradually along with the development of economy. I wonder if we can find ways to balance the preservation of nature and economic practices.
At Wellesley, I will be enlivened and enlightened, and given the chance to pursue my quests to discover the answers. The Economics Department highlights the Goldman Lecture and the Calderwood Speaker series, where distinguished lecturers present invaluable observations and insights. From those preeminent speakers, I will be led to in-depth thinking about problems previously unnoticed, such as labor relations in Korea, measurement of the cost and benefits of environmental policy, and issues related to trade and immigration. Furthermore, the Wellesley Environmental Studies, an interdisciplinary program, feature special walks such as Trip to Noanet Woodlands and Dump Free-cycling Field Trip that serve to combine the real world experience with what has been learnt in classrooms. Through first-hand experiences derived from these amazing research projects, I will be able to understand and address environmental issues at hand with a more practical approach. Based on economic conceptual interpretation of case studies, such as the assumption of perfect rationality to make the optimal choices, I will be able to find advisable and feasible ways to promote sustainable use of resources and optimize decisions of consumers and producers, thus promoting a better life. On top of all that, Wellesley is my dream school, a place where I can develop my academic interests as well as my personality to the fullest.
