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Essay Questions

To ensure a complete application is submitted to Southern College of Optometry, please answer the following two questions and submit to the Director of Admissions and Enrollment Services via email at mike.robertson@sco.edu.

Essays have no required format or length.

  1. Please list your activities since high school. Include jobs held, extra-curricular activities, service and volunteer activities, honors and awards, any military or other service to the country and any significant periods during which you were neither employed nor enrolled in school. Also, explain in detail any two of the activities that were most meaningful to you.
     
  2. Please compose an essay that includes answers to the following questions: a) Why do you feel you would be a successful optometry student at Southern College of Optometry and eventually a successful optometrist? b) How did you first learn about Optometry? c) What experience or exposure have you had to the field?

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