Colburn-Keenan Foundation

Essays

PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING – Your essay should be written based upon your own personal experience; therefore, the use of A.I. technology is prohibited in the submission of this application. Plagiarizing and the use of A.I. technology are immediate grounds for disqualification. Furthermore, if you do not follow all of the instructions, as described below, your application will be disqualified.

Instructions
There are three essay questions found below and you MUST answer the 1st question found under “Community Service/Volunteer Activity” and then EITHER the question found under "Academic Goals" or the question found under "Mentoring". It DOES NOT benefit you to answer all 3 questions.

Community Service/Volunteer Activity – MANDATORY ESSAY
Please pick one of the community service activities or volunteer activities which you listed in the RESUME section of this application and give specific details about the work you did. The information provided in this essay should be much more detailed than what appears in the RESUME. Please include specific dates you volunteered, approximate hours spent volunteering, where you volunteered, specific activities you performed and what you learned from this experience. If this essay does not clearly connect to a community service activity or volunteer activity listed in the RESUME section of the application you will be disqualified.

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Academic Goals – ANSWER EITHER THIS QUESTION OR THE ONE BELOW

What are your academic goals and what would you like to be able to do after you receive your undergraduate degree?

Good Choice – ANSWER EITHER THIS QUESTION OR THE ONE ABOVE

You have been asked to mentor a preteen (someone between the ages of 9-12) who has a bleeding disorder. In what way are you able to make this pre-teen feel as he/she is not alone? What words of advice can you give this pre-teen that would be valuable to him/her through the hard years of middle and high school?

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