Impact Boston Essay Question

Impact Boston 2010 Essay Question:

All applicants for Impact Boston at Brandeis University are required to answer ONE of the following questions.

These are challenging questions. Please think carefully, and write a well-considered response.

Please type your response in 500 words or less and email to Malki Karkowsky, mkarkowsky@bbyo.org, when you register for the program:

“Volunteering is not enough.” What does this mean to you?

If you were handed $1 million dollars with the mandate to “help repair the world,” what would you do?

Read the following quote from the US Census Bureau and comment: “Between 2007 and 2008, the real median income of non-Hispanic white households declined 2.6 percent (to $55,530); for blacks, it declined 2.8 percent (to $34,218); for Asians, it declined 4.4 percent (to $65,637); and for Hispanics, it declined 5.6 percent (to $37,913). Except for the difference between the declines for non-Hispanic white and Hispanic households, all other differences between the declines were not statistically significant.”