To allow for a more comprehensive review, CUNY encourages all applicants to submit a personal statement in support of the Admission Application. Visit www.cuny.edu/afteryouapply to learn how to send your supporting documents to CUNY.
Some colleges and programs strongly recommend or require the submission of a specific supplemental essay and/or statement. Prepare to apply to these by reviewing the essay questions listed below.
It is strongly recommended that applicants write an essay on one of the three topics listed below:
- Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
- If you could meet anyone in the world, from history or present day, who would it be and why?
- Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
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Complete two out of three, max. 500 words each:
- Discuss some issure of local, national or international concern and its importance to you. What are the challenges it raises, problems to be addressed and hopeful outcomes?
- Tell us about personal, social or family challenges you have faced. How have you dealt with them and how have the shaped your thinking?
- It's 4 p.m. on Tuesday. What will you do next? Write about your extracurricular pursuits. Why and how do you choose the activities you are involved in? How do your activities reflect your values and affect your school, community or the world?
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