維克森林大學(xué) Wake Forest University

How did you become interested in Wake Forest University and why are you applying?

Tell us how a work of fiction you’ve read has helped you to understand the world’s complexity.

What piques your intellectual curiosity, and why?

As part of our “Voices of Our Time” series – which allows students, faculty, and staff to hear from some of the world’s leading thinkers – Wake Forest has hosted Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander, Eboo Patel, and Thomas Friedman. If you could choose the next series speaker, who would you pick, and why?

At Wake Forest, we gather our students in “Calls to Conversation,” congregating small groups around dinner tables in faculty's and administrators’ homes to discuss topics organized around a theme, for example “arts for social change,” “gender in society,” and “l(fā)eading a meaningful life.” If you could design a theme for a “Call to Conversation,” what would you choose, and why?

We live in an age intensely interested in heroes. Professor Joseph Campbell defined “hero” as “someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Describe a hero in public life and how and why, in your opinion, they meet Professor Campbell’s definition.

Tell us about your visit and with whom you spoke.