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What about being a student at BU most excites you?
Required · 300 wordsBoston University is dedicated to our founding principles: "that higher education should be accessible to all and that research, scholarship, artistic creation, and professional practice should be conducted in the service of the wider community-local and international. These principles endure in the University's insistence on the value of diversity in its tradition and standards of excellence and its dynamic engagement with the City of Boston and the world." With this mission in mind, please respond to the following question in 300 words or less: What about being a student at BU most excites you? How do you hope to contribute to our campus community?
Required · 300 wordsWhat about the Kilachand Honors College resonates with you, and how would Kilachand's curriculum fulfill your academic, creative, intellectual, and/or professional goals?
Required · 600 wordsIf you could create a new Kilachand course, what would it be? How would your imagined course align with the core values of Kilachand?
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