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Ursinus College

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Ursinus College’s 2024-25 Essay Prompts

Difficult Choice Short Response

Not Required
300 Words

The Ursinus Quest Curriculum: Open Questions, Open Minds is built around four questions: What should matter to me? How should we live together? How can we understand the world? What will I do?

These questions were purposefully designed to help one make difficult choices. Tell us about an instance in which you had to make a difficult choice. What helped you make that choice, and what might you do differently next time? How do you think the framework provided by these four questions might help shape your experience at Ursinus?

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