Responses For NYU Supplement

1. In addition to any work experience that you listed on your application, please tell us how you spent your most recent summer vacation. 2. If you had the opportunity to spend one day in New York City with a famous New Yorker, who would it be and what would you do? (Your New Yorker can be anyone -past or present, fictional or nonfictional - who is commonly associated with New York City; they do not necessarily have to have been born and raised in New York.) 3. Write a haiku, limerick, or short (eight lines or less) poem that best represents you. 4. In the year 2050, a movie is being made of your life. Please tell us the name of your movie and briefly summarize the story line. 5. Please tell us what led you to select your anticipated academic program and/or NYU school/college, and what interests you most about your intended discipline.


1. I spent entire my last summer in Burlington County Footlighters, which is a small community theater. I was involved in two shows: The Secret Garden and The Odyssey, as a pianist for The Secret Garden rehearsals and a violinist for both shows. I did get paid for The Secret Garden as a musician. Also I received compensation for playing the violin at one wedding in a Catholic church, Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish.

2. “With great power comes great responsibility.” It would definitely be my favorite superhero Spiderman. I would hang on him and fly between buildings, and ask him if he could make a giant web for me to lie on. However, I should talk to Mary Jane Watson before I see him... I don’t want any drama.

3. Dark hazel curves

Heavenly delicate sounds

My beloved instrument.

Cold white shines

Never ending trails

My most passionate sports.

4. This year, Homecoming will fill your heart with laughter and warmth. Hee Sun is a foreign student who has just arrived in America. As she goes to an American high school, she encounters numerous incidents that are caused by her oriental way of understanding situations and, mainly, by her accent. However, she overcomes them by her "gifted" sense of humor and finally succeeds to survive....

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