How to Write the University of Texas at Austin Admissions Essays Sarah ONeill

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UT Austin Excerpt

According to UT Austin admissions (via their website):

The University of Texas at Austin looks for applicants with a genuine commitment to its core values—learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity, and responsibility.  

Learning — A caring community, all of us students, helping one another grow. 

Discovery — Expanding knowledge and human understanding. 

Freedom — To seek the truth and express it. 

Leadership — The will to excel with integrity and the spirit that nothing is impossible. 

Individual Opportunity — Many options, diverse people and ideas, one university. 

Responsibility — To serve as a catalyst for positive change in Texas and beyond.

Check out UT Austin's Mission and Values Here

In history: Students showed an understanding of UT Austin’s core values and showed the reader how they use those values in their own life and how they’ll use them at UT Austin.  Students were able to connect their intended major to a prior experience or passion.  Their memorable essays sprung from concrete descriptions of their experiences. 

Students showed how their perspectives could enrich the learning environment at UT Austin.  They also showed admissions that they care about the well-being of others.  

Supplemental Essay Example: 

How do you show leadership in your life? How do you see yourself being a leader at UT Austin?

For me, leadership means to unite a group of people to help them to establish common goals. I am a good leader by this definition. More concretely, my philosophy for leading others is this: to provide everyone with a chance to demonstrate their own talents and morals.

I have been a prefect for residential life, president of our Japanese club, project leader in my summer school, and many more mentorships. Whichever position I’m in, I make sure that everyone feels that there is a job that is unique and is necessary to the team. For instance, during my web app design summer school, there were two students on our team who were not good at programming. It was obvious that they felt themselves unworthy. Therefore, I asked them for help in creating the presentation to be displayed on Google. “Is it possible for you to learn how to edit videos? Please, I really need help creating the demo for our video website.” Sometimes just this type of request for a favor can elicit in them a sense of responsibility and belongingness. And, it did! Both felt that they could make contributions and adapted a positive mentality.

I can see myself being a leader at UT Austin especially in clubs like CSSA anime, and robotics clubs. Although I am not a UT Austin student yet, I have already been part of the UTCSSA anime club. Many of my friends are in it, and I share so many common interests with them. I often contact my friends on the robotics teams at UT Austin, and I recently attended their match in February. I am excited to know people well enough that I can encourage them and make sure they feel like irreplaceable members of each club. 

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