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University of Florida's 2021-22 Essay Prompts

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Extracurricular Essay

Not Required
250 Words

Do you have any employment or family obligations that limit your participation in extracurricular activities? If so, please describe.

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Help on Application Short Response

Not Required
250 Words

Have you participated in or been assisted in your college preparation and search by programs outside of classroom, such as Educational Talent Search, Take Stock in Children, Upward Bound, Boys and Girls Club, etc.? Please provide the name of the program, details/benefits of your involvement, and how long your experiences continued.

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Extracurricular Essay

Required
250 Words

Please provide more details on your most meaningful commitment outside of the classroom while in high school and explain why it was meaningful. This could be related to an extracurricular activity, work, volunteering, an academic activity, family responsibility, or any other non-classroom activity.

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Additional Info Essay

Not Required
250 Words

Is there any additional information or extenuating circumstances the Admissions Committee should know when reviewing your application?

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Why This Program Short Response

Required
400 Words

Why is applying for the UF Honors Program important to you? Which aspects of the program‘s three pillars of opportunity, community, and challenge pique your interests? How would you engage with the program to exemplify these pillars yourself? How does the program factor into your long-term goals? Please be specific.

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Interdisciplinary Solution Short Response

Required
300 Words

Identify two topics you have previously studied that do not traditionally overlap. How do you envision you might bring these topics together during your time in Honors to engage a pressing societal, medical or technological concern? The concern you wish to engage could be of local, national or global scope, but you should be clear about the issue you want to address. For the purposes of this essay, the topics you identify need not have been formally studied in high school, but you should have studied them since beginning in high school.

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