Michigan Technological University supplemental essays

Program-specific prompts

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

• Leading Scholar AwardRequired800 words max

  Lead the change

  Imagine you have been given the responsibility to fix any one problem in your school or local community. What issue would you take on, why does it matter to you, and how would you lead the charge to create lasting change? Reflect on what this challenge reveals about the kind of future impact you hope to make through your education and service to others.

  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.