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The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? I was jealous. Sally could draw a perfect circle and I couldn’t. She always created beautifully proportionate people while I sketched … Read more Artistic Abilities

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. At age 13, I had it all planned out. Having taken my passport from my mother’s desk, I prepared to purchase … Read more Where do I belong?

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. I walked into the hospital that morning wearing my red polo and khakis, which I feared made me look far more … Read more The First Shift

Common application “What make you, you?” “On Thursday,” announced my religion teacher, “we will be going to the zoo to find our animal totems.” For those that don’t know, an animal totem represents the Native American belief that each person has a connection to a specific animal. I was excited to begin my search, and … Read more Finding Your Animal Totem

One of the core values of Villanova, as an Augustinian university founded on the teachings of St. Augustine, is that students and faculty learn from each other. As you imagine yourself as a member of the Villanova community, what is one lesson that you have learned in your life that you will want to share … Read more What do you see?

Describe a book, movie, song, or other work of art that has been significant to you since you were young and how its meaning has changed for you as you have grown. “Don’t tell me there’s no hope at all” are the very words that Roger Waters from Pink Floyd sang in the internationally famous, … Read more My Wall, My Aspiration

We believe that it is our similarities that make us strong, but our differences that make us stronger. Please tell us about a relationship that you have with someone who is different from you and how that has changed who you are today. The day I turned twelve, I got my babysitting certification. I started … Read more Camp Counselor

At Villanova, we believe that it is our similarities that make us strong, but our differences that make us stronger. Please tell us about a relationship that you have with someone who is different from you and how that has changed who you are today In the midst of boredom during a third period lull, … Read more Friendship

At Villanova, we believe that it is our similarities that make us strong, but our differences that make us stronger. Please tell us about a relationship that you have with someone who is different from you and how that has changed who you are today. (1 page double spaced) If you had walked into my … Read more A Contentious Friendship

“Become what you are not yet” – Saint Augustine. When you daydream, who do you hope to become in the future? When I daydream, I see myself as a successful dentist who has opened her own dental office alongside her closest friends. I see myself breaking barriers and stereotypes that say first generation americans and … Read more Becoming what I am not yet – Villanova