What is one thing you wished you told List College about in your applicationthat you didn’t?
Alexandra Harvey
Joint Program ’16
San Diego, California
As I was applying to LIST, it was not always the process of writing the supplement essays that was difficult, but choosing what to share with the admissions committee. I remember talking in depth about my trip to Israel two summers ago with JITLI (The Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute), as well as my involvement with clubs on my high school campus, but what I wish I talked about more was my first trip to Israel with during the summer of 2010.
I remember briefly touching on my Israel experience, but I would have liked to expand on how much this trip changed me; how I truly fell in love with Israel after landing with 40 of my closest friends, and how I finally understood what it meant to reconnect. I would have liked to describe the emotions I felt in Poland while walking through the concentration camps, and how this experience paralleled with landing in Israel for the first time. Perhaps because I knew that there were probably several others applying to LIST that would speak of their Israel experience, I hesitated to write about it because I wanted to stand out from everyone else. But the reality is that although we may have gone on the same trip, the experiences we talked about in our essays would have never been the same.

