<p>I'm so excited about Williams, and I haven't even been admitted.</p>
<p>Well, good luck, Gus.</p>
<p>be excited! College apps are an exciting (if tiring) process. :)</p>
<p>Have you visited? You should try to make a trip.</p>
<p>My daughter originally wanted to visit in April of 2008 but we had a problem with the car so we couldn’t go. We did go earlier this year in April after she got accepted. The visit sold her on going to Williams, starting in just over 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Good luck…</p>
<p>You haven’t been admitted, but did you write your essay? What window did you write about in your essay? My S was thinking to use his camera lens and then reflect about all the pictures he’s taken over the years. How about you?</p>
<p>My daughter wrote about sitting in an airplane and looking out the window. She realized that her future was boundless.</p>
<p>clicheeeee ^^</p>
<p>why does everyone think it is a literal window? losers…</p>
<p>Civility folks. Let’s not criticize others’ ideas. And anyway, the writing trumps topic any day.</p>
<p>I’m with people on the whole “literal window” business. If you want to be unique in this essay, I would say think outside the box and not do a literal window, per se, but a figurative window. A window into your soul?</p>
<p>It’s the view, not the window that matters. My daughter used a literal window and kept close to the prompt and was admitted. Writing it well is what matters.</p>
<p>My S also used a literal window. It was a real memory of something he saw through a window, and he also kept to the prompt. I am not sure if it was well written (I do not write well in English so I can’t judge,) but it seemed interesting to me.</p>
<p>Amen to the literal-- if everyone had to give esoteric answers the school population would look like Brown! </p>
<p>tough crowd here.</p>
<p>Because my DS’s stats and ECs were very solid, but not exceptional for Williams, I often wonder if it was his supplemental essay that “tipped him over.” If so, what he actually saw through that window on that day might have influenced the course of his life twice.</p>
<p>Nice point. Both can be interesting – a literal or a metaphoric window. As a writer, I find the literal window more interesting. But both can yield interesting essays.</p>
<p>“Imagine looking through a window at any environment that is particularly significant to you. Reflect on the scene, paying close attention to the relation between what you are seeing and why it is meaningful to you. Please limit your statement to 300 words.” </p>
<p>Isn’t it obvious that what they are asking you to do is to tell them what is “particularly” important to you and why? “Hey, kid, what is the most interesting or important thing or activity in your life, or what would you like it to be, and why do you think it’s important, or why do you aspire to be a part of it? And keep your answer on the short side, be concise.”</p>
<p>I think that how you write about the window and what it means to you is what is important. You can say that “looking outside the box” applies here.</p>
<p>In my daughter’s case she had a vision of her future and what going to Williams would mean in achieving that future.</p>
<p>The window is then a metaphor of life.</p>