Belmont University supplemental essays

Program-specific prompts

These apply only if you are applying to the named program or school.

• Global Honors ProgramOptional750 words max

  Your core identity

  Consider the five following individual identity descriptors: creator, doer, explorer, change agent, seeker. Choose one of these five descriptors that best encapsulates your core identity. Provide 2-3 concrete examples of how the descriptor you chose reflects your identity. How might this core identity translate into action as a scholar-global citizen at Belmont University? And how do you hope to develop your core identity during college?

  How to approach it

  Community and identity prompts reward specificity over significance. A small, true community described from the inside beats a broad label described from the outside. End on what you carry from it into a campus, not on a moral.

• Global Honors ProgramOptional750 words max

  A transformative experience

  Reflect on a recent transformative learning experience. The learning experience can be something directly related to the classes you have taken or to experiences you've had outside the classroom. The experience does not need to be academic in nature, but it should demonstrate how you were transformed in the process.

• Global Honors ProgramOptional750 words max

  A topic you crave

  Belmont's Global Honors Program is a community of students who hunger for knowledge. What's a topic you haven't had an opportunity to learn about in high school that you are excited to learn about in college? Why do you yearn to know more about this particular topic?

  How to approach it

  Community and identity prompts reward specificity over significance. A small, true community described from the inside beats a broad label described from the outside. End on what you carry from it into a campus, not on a moral.