Freshmen Application
2013 Freshmen Application
Application Coming January 2013
The Kellogg Honors College freshmen application for Fall 2013 will be posted here in January 2013, with a deadline of Feburary 15, 2013. Prospective applicants must apply to Cal Poly Pomona by November 30, 2012 to be eligible for the Kellogg Honors College.
Freshman Application Essay Questions
While the freshmen application website is under development, you can start drafting essay responses for the application.
Essay Instructions:
The essays are the single most important part of the application to Honors. Essays should be:
- Insightful -- your essay reveals that you are able to think carefully and reflectively about your learning, interactions and experiences
- Interesting -- no matter how "small" your topic may seem, you have shown that it is significant
- Complete and well-crafted -- your essay has a beginning, middle, and end; a short essay is not simply a truncated long essay.
- Correct in grammar, spelling, and mechanics in standard written English
Essay Questions:
- Briefly describe a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced. Then, in more detail, evaluate this event's influence on you, your choices or your path from childhood to young adulthood. In other words, what did you learn from this experience and how did it influence your actions?
- Identify a current issue of national or international concern. Discuss, in some detail, the effects of this issue on your immediate (family, neighborhood, ethnic group, town, state, etc.) community.
- Outside of academics, what is the activity that you are most committed to? Describe the reasons for your involvement in this activity and the contributions you have made to others due to this activity.
Essay Format Requirements:
- 600 word maximum limit for each essay question response
- 8.5 x 11 inch document size
- 1 inch margin all around
- 12 point, Times New Roman font
- Applicant’s Name and Bronco ID number at the top of each page
- Include the essay prompt/question before each response