Marymount Manhattan College

What was the environment in which you were raised? Describe your family, home, neighborhood or community, and explain how it has shaped you as a person. I sleep in on Sunday, I stay home on Wednesday nights; I don’t belong to any youth groups, and if you walk into my house there’s not a single … Read more How Not to Fit In

Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story. Thank goodness apartments don’t have emotions. If my one bedroom apartment did, I can guarantee that its paint would be chipping … Read more The Apartment

Describe a significant experience that has special meaning for you.ANDDescribe someone who has had a significant influence on your life. My greatest inspiration, and my greatest influence, comes from not just one person but from a group. This group is my non-biological family, and happens to be a small, homegrown nonprofit organization. Without this group, … Read more My Greatest Influence