Boston University Admission Essays

The world stops when my fingers make contact with my piano’s black-and-white keys. Music modeled after the Romantic style makes me feel truly alive—brimming with enough raw emotion to make my breath catch. Von Goethe’s statement is most relevant when I play Eugenie Rocherelle’s “Le…

My bags were overstuffed with clothes and campaign materials for the week, and while I had been overwhelmed by the lengthy list of elected positions mentioned at orientation, I was prepared to run for all of them. I was bouncing in the passenger seat of…

A university is a community that is the sum of its parts. By far the most important part of such a community is its students and the individual qualities that they bring. One of the most important qualities about me is that I am funny….

When you’re four and Daddy is twenty-eight, heaven is in the passenger seat of a red Jeep going 65 on the highway. When the Jeep has no top, and Daddy’s crying as you head for the airport, you blast Nirvana as loud as possible. Loud,…

My decision to enter the field of business is based upon my familial and extracurricular experiences as well as through my personal endeavors. For instance, within my family, there is a strong tradition of business ownership. My father operates multiple businesses providing a variety of…

As I approached the end of high school, I found myself fascinated by the workings of the human brain and the ways it enables us to think, feel, and interact with the world around us. Eager to explore this field, I began to research universities…

Aristotle was wise to say that “poetry is of greater ethical import than history since poetry relates more of the universal, while history relates the particulars,” for poetry can put one inside the universal body of human experience, while history, like a mirror, simply reflects…

As I reflect on my journey towards becoming a marketer, I can trace my interest in the field back to a conversation with a family friend. During that conversation, she shared with me her experience as a marketing executive, describing the dynamic and creative nature…

As I reflect on my journey to selecting Boston University, one department that stands out to me is the School of Hospitality Administration. While my interests have taken me down many paths over the years, I have always been drawn to the hospitality industry and…

An issue I am deeply concerned with is the environment, because without a stable environment, humans simply cannot exist. My junior year, I took AP Environmental Science, and many of the things I learned in that class sparked my interest in the preservation of the…