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University of North Carolina at Wilmington | UNC Wilmington’s 2024-25 Essay Prompts
Diversity Short Response
Reflect on your identity, including your background and experiences, and how you envision your identity contributing to the UNCW community.
Honors College Short Response
After researching the Honors College opportunities at UNCW, explain how the Honors College will enhance your specific experience at UNCW.
Select-A-Prompt Short Response
Please select one essay prompt to respond to (maximum of 500 words):
Option 1
Intellectual curiosity is a distinguishing characteristic of honors students. It doesn’t matter what fascinates you, so long as something does. In what ways have you followed your senses of exploration and fascination, and how do you want to follow this intellectual curiosity during your time at UNCW?
Option 2
The Honors College encourages interdisciplinarity—the interaction and synergy of multiple subjects and disciplines. We often offer classes that intersect art and science, literature and sociology, or religion and technology—among others. What interdisciplinarity have you found in your own life and academic interests?
Option 3
If you could create/design your own curriculum, what areas of study, academic experiences, and beyond the classroom activities would be included and why?
