We love sharing an anecdote whenever possible, but there are some questions that you MUST answer with a story. These are "SAR responses" because you'll describe the situation (20% of the response), the action you took, and the result (collectively, 80% of the response). Some SAR prompts will be familiar because many schools use them as Secondary questions. Go right ahead and reuse any applicable application responses. Those were your experiences and your takeaways, after all. There's no need to invent a whole new self.
You may have to respond to prompts like these:
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You may have to respond to prompts like these:
- Describe a failure and what you learned from it.
- Tell me about a time when you challenged the group consensus.
- Tell me about a time when you took on a leadership role.
- Tell me about an experience when you've learned from people different from yourself.
- Tell me about an ethical dilemma and what you decided to do.
- Tell me about a time when you came up with an imaginative solution to a problem.
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