Queen's Commerce Essay Questions 2021/2022

Check out the Supplementary Essay Questions students have received so far for the Queen's Commerce Supplementary Essays.

Once you submit your university choices on OUAC, you will receive your SOLUS login details from Queen’s within 5 business days.

Once you login to SOLUS, under your To Do list you will find the link to activate your Supplementary Essay questions. Three questions are randomly generated, and you have 30 days to submit essay responses for two of the three questions. If you do not submit your questions within 30 days, your questions will refresh.

Here are some of the questions students have been assigned. Each must be answered in a maximum of 2000 characters.


Reflect on your background, identity, an interest, or talent. Explain why it is so meaningful that your application would be incomplete without it.

What kind of impact or change do you want to create?

How has a challenge that you have experienced shaped the way you approach life?

What advantages or privileges do you have in life and how can you use them to advocate for change?

Describe a time when you witnessed something unjust. How would you respond to that now? 

Share an example of how you worked to better understand diverse perspectives?

What is the best advice you have ever received? Describe why you feel it was helpful.

Tell us about an experience that shaped who you are today.

Tell us about an accomplishment you are proud of. Why?

What challenges do you find rewarding?

Everyone belongs to many different communities and/or groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that community and your place in it.
Describe an event you have witnessed or experienced that served as a catalyst for change in your beliefs or actions.

Describe a significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge.
Describe an influential person in your life or someone you admire. Why?

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