BRIGHT MINDS BUDDY

Prompt about the background, identity, interest, or talent: share your story. • Show the growth, unique context, core beliefs, connection to diversity, and how/why you came to be you. Prompt about facing a challenge, setback, or failure and what you learned from the experience. • Show the growth, resilience, determination, grit, flexibility, maturity, and skills that will help you in college. Prompt about questioning challenging a belief or idea. Why and what happened? • Demonstrate independence, core beliefs/perspectives, strength of character, boldness, and leadership. Prompt about gratitude and how it affected or motivated you. • Show maturity, empathy, self-reflection, and how you relate to others. Prompt about something that sparked your personal growth and how you changed. • Demonstrate potential for growth & change, self-reflection, and what makes you you. Prompt about something you are super interested in engaging with and how you pursue your curiosity. ...

  Tell a story from your life that demonstrates your character. • Show the growth, unique connection,  connection to diversity, and how/why you came to be you. Describe a time when you made a meaningful contribution to others in which the greater good was your focus. • Show your values, engagement, and potential for impacting the college community. Describe a time when a long-cherished or accepted belief was challenged and how it affected your beliefs. • Demonstrate independence, core beliefs/perspectives, strength of character, boldness, and leadership. What is the hardest part of being a student now? What’s the best part? What advice would you give a younger sibling or friend (assuming they would listen to you)? • Show thought processes, reflection, optimism/ impact on the community. The topic of your choice • Show what you want to show!