Select one prompt below for admission essay

Choose one of the prompts below. I’m giving you lots of flexibility for this essay. You can make up your own story. But there are some requirements. The essay must include imagery. Show, don’t tell. A little bit about me: I am a computer science major looking to transfer to another school. I’m not sure what the admissions officers are looking for, so I don’t really know what requirements to give. But here are some suggestions. If you can make a story related to problem solving, perseverance, critical thinking, or anything else that relates to my major, then that would be amazing! If you can’t, then you can come up with your own story. Don’t make a story about college. I didn’t do any clubs in college, but you can make any other story, whether it’s school-related or not. Ultimately, I’m letting you decide how to best answer one of the prompts given below.

Prompts:
1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

2. The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

3. Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?

4. Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma-anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.

5. Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.

6. Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

All theoretical approaches as well as methods of scholarly inquiry are welcome. Manuscripts are expected to make original contributions to academic research in communication studies. Manuscripts should address critical theoretical and empirical questions in the field of communication that are relevant to scholars within and across specializations. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that address key questions in specific areas of research and/or that connect analytical threads across subfields in communication studies. Submissions are expected to present arguments that are theoretically sophisticated, conceptually meaningful, and methodologically sound.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).
The main document should be a maximum of 35 pages in length (including the abstract, main text, references, tables, figures, and endnotes).
1.Page 1 should include only the title (centered), an abstract (maximum of 150 words), and selected keywords (at least 5 of author’s own choosing).
2. Page 2 starts with title (centered) and the main text follows directly thereafter. Please note that the title functions as the first-order heading for the introduction. Subsequent subheadings should begin with a second-order subheading (bold flush left).
3. Standard type (12-point font, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 1.0 inch margins) should be used throughout.
4. Running head and page numbers on top right corner (header) of each page.
5. References are double-spaced; 2nd and subsequent lines should have hanging indent of 0.5 inch (References should also start on a new page).
6. All tables, figures, and endnotes should be placed after references.