Admission Essay for Cornell University

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This admission essay details the author's reasons for wanting to attend Cornell University as well as why he believes that Cornell should admit him. The student, a Chinese-American, describes his virtues and talents and why they would be an asset to the university.

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"WHAT I WISHED I HAD DONE IN HIGH SCHOOL....What I DID do was grow up and mature. What I did not get a chance to do was to expand my horizons and get a taste of other cultures and other areas of the world. Not that I am unfamiliar with traditions of China, for example. Both my parents are from China, and from a very early age I was exposed to both American and Chinese cultures through them and their eyes. But, I wanted to experience it for myself. For some high school students, getting to drive a car for the first time, or going out on a date without parents tagging along is a life-long memory. For me, it would have been a chance to see China and meet Chinese people for myself, and not through books or films or TV news magazines, or even through the stories and memories of my parents. I wanted to walk on the Great Wall. I wanted to see Tiananmen Square. I wanted to see the countryside where rivers were being dammed, new farms built up, factories even with American firms' names on them, being built. It was more than wanting to revisit "my" past culture. It was the fact that I was realizing how small the Earth was becoming and that no opportunity should be missed to see things before the completely "globalize"."

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