<p>I agree with this poster completely. It appears that not only must your essay be excellent, it must also be witty/humorous, and make the adcom laugh out loud, so that his/her otherwise dreary day full of reading boring essays gets a bit more bearable, and so that the adcom will “remember” the applicant’s name and advocate for him/her in the admissions review meetings! Infact in a meeting given by our school counselors to parents, the senior sounselor gave the impression that the student should come across as a standup-comedian (exagerating, of course)! Unless you crack a joke, you are nobody! I sincerely hope that academically top-shot univs dont lay so much emphasis on such “intagible” attributes!</p>