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Texas A&M University’s 2023-24 Essay Prompts
Impactful Person Short Response
Tell us about the person who has most impacted your life and why.
Opportunities and Challenges Essay
Tell us your story. What unique opportunities or challenges have you experienced throughout your high school career that have shaped who you are today?
Life Even Short Response
Describe a life event which you feel has prepared you to be successful in college.
Overcoming Challenges Short Response
If there are additional personal challenges, hardships, or opportunities (including COVID related experiences) that have shaped or impacted your abilities or academic credentials, which you have not already written about, please note them in the space below.
College of Engineering Essay
Describe your academic and career goals in the broad field of engineering (including computer science, industrial distribution, and engineering technology). What and/or who has influenced you either inside or outside the classroom that contributed to these goals? It is important to spend time addressing this question as it will be considered as part of engineering review process.
ApplyTexas Essays
Schools using ApplyTexas will have specific guidelines for how many of the following essays are required, if any. Some schools are also on the Common App, so you may respond to those prompts instead in that case.
Option 1
Tell us your story. What unique opportunities or challenges have you experienced throughout your high school career that have shaped who you are today?
Option 2
Most students have an identity, an interest, or a talent that defines them in an essential way. Tell us about yourself.
Option 3
You’ve got a ticket in your hand – Where will you go? What will you do? What will happen when you get there?
Option 4
(specific to majors in architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual art studies/art education): Personal interaction with objects, images and spaces can be so powerful as to change the way one thinks about particular issues or topics. For your intended area of study (architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual art studies/art education), describe an experience where instruction in that area or your personal interaction with an object, image or space effected this type of change in your thinking. What did you do to act upon your new thinking and what have you done to prepare yourself for further study in this area?
