Application Essay#2

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>Hello, I'm going into my senior year and I was planning to apply to Caltech. On their application supplement (to Commonapp), they have this essay question that asks:</p>

<p>Please fill the rectangle below with something you think is interesting. Please do not send us disks, CDs, videos, URLs or any item that
cannot lay flat in an 8.5 x11 file folder. Electronic submissions should be sent as JPEG files to: <a href="mailto:thebox@admissions.caltech.edu">thebox@admissions.caltech.edu</a>. Please
see guidelines for electronic submissions in the Caltech Application Instructions.</p>

<p>Does that mean we need to find something and then write an essay about it? Or is the object itself the essay? Maybe I'm being slightly close-minded about the meaning of the word essay....?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>It does not have to be an actual essay. Many people submitted a picture with a short description.</p>

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<p>I'm not an admissions person, so perhaps am the wrong person to be answering your question. However, my advice is not to ask or read what others have submitted. Use your own imagination. You are not limited to essays and pictures. Many things will lie flat.</p>

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<p>That advice is exactly right -- I don't think it could be said better.</p>

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<p>Haha, yes the famous "Fill this box" question. Use your creativity. Or if you're really outta ideas, punch a hole through it and scribble "I give up" underneath :P.</p>

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<p>eerm....when they say "something you find interesting", it doesn't necessarily have to be creative, right? <em>crossing fingers</em></p>