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My Observation At Wooster

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There are many activities and classes at Wooster that are of interest to me. One I admire the most is the first-year seminar, where you explore texts, their interpretations, and your own writing. A class like this would be really important to me because I didn 't have something like this in high school. It would have been helpful for me with my transition from middle school to high school and I would take full advantage of it if given the chance to at Wooster. There are aspects about high school that I look for in a college, and the most significant is diversity. Wooster has a lot of diversity and I appreciate that it comes in many forms. I believe that diversity should touch on the many self identifiers: race, socio-economic status, gender,
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