Why School Essay Worksheet

Fill this sheet for one school. Why generic Why Us drafts fail is in how to write Why School essays. Community and leadership supplements are sibling worksheets.

This school

• School name:
• Academic specific (program, lab, or professor tied to work you already did):
• Campus specific (group, studio, or structure that cannot be swapped to another school):
• Why now (one sentence that ties your path to this school this year):

First paragraph (from the three rows above)

• Nothing in this paragraph would still be true if I swapped the school name
• I did not use ranking, prestige, or beautiful-campus language

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