UPenn Master of Liberal Arts Essay Requirement
University of Pennsylvania Master of Liberal Arts
Essays
Please respond to each of the following questions. Please upload them together in one document. Number your essays clearly and begin each essay on a separate page. Responses may be as long or as short as you feel necessary.
1. In a 350-word essay, discuss your interest in the MLA program and your reasons for wanting to enroll, drawing on your previous academic experiences, your current intellectual interests, and including any biographical information which may be relevant.
2. To help us advise you, identify as concisely as possible the topical area, intellectual problem, or set of issues you hopee to explore within the MLA program.
3. If you believe your transcripts and other records do not present an accurate picture of your ability, please explain.
4. Describe an experience, event, or person that has been important to you in your development.
5. Is there other information about yourself that you consider important which has not been covered in the previous questions?