<p>I wanted to do some investing on the stock market so my mom created a scottrade account for me under her name, can i brag about this on my essay? i have made a 25% profit! Thank you Bank of America.</p>
<p>i hope you’re not using your essay as an opportunity to plug anything and everything you’ve ever done that makes you unique. they have no way of verifying what you say in your essay, so how is more important than what.</p>
<p>dont put stuff in your essay thats going to detract from its focus/merit as a sample of your writing.</p>
<p>25% increase in this bearish market?</p>
<p>Yeah right…</p>
<p>Intangible Gator, I hope you realize that stock prices have picked up a little and there are many people who bought low and are beginning to see some profit.</p>
<p>Joker, you only made 25%??? Markets have been up around 50% since the March lows! 
When did you open your account? What type of funds did you get? Etf indexes? Mutual Funds? Fixed Income? etc ?</p>
<p>GE and Bank of America (BAC), opened the account in may, bought BAC for around 12 in may. Bought GE around 11.+ in July. GE now cost 14.31, bought 35 shares, 11.46/100=.1146, 14.31/.1146=124.89. That means 24.89% increase. Bought BAC on May for 12.03, bought 35 shares, BAC now cost 16.7. 16.7/.12= 139.66, 39.66% increase. The reason why i did this is because after every reccesion the price of stocks fall, and usually go back up, so how about you stop questioning intangable gator. So anyways can i use this in my essay? Im interested on a Political science or economics major.</p>
<p>its not really impressive and irrelevent.
- they dont really care about you major, and this has more to do with finance majors than econ majors anyways.
- how would you tie this into the prompt?</p>
<p>I dont know i was thinking that i could say that always like to try things for myself especially since i would like to get a degree in finance. the reason that i did not buy in March is because alot of companies were going bankrupt or bought up by the govt, point in case Citigroup, and AIG (30%, and 70%)</p>
<p>i think mentioning this would be detrimental to the focus of your essay. it might be a nice thing, but it doesn’t sound like theres a whole lot to write about it.</p>
<p>I know i just wanted to mention it, like in one sentence.</p>
<p>aforautumn:</p>
<p>You say they don’t care about your major, but I was going to write my essay on journalism and how it helps me stay connected and how it’s my one passion etc etc, will this hurt me?</p>
<p>no. it wont hurt you. the majority of students who graduate UF have changed major at least once. admissions knows this. they also know that everything you write in your essay could be completely made up.</p>
<p>that doesn’t mean they think you’re naive and a liar. it means that the strength of your essay is likely more important than the content alone. as long as you’re addressing the prompt in a focused and engaging way, it doesn’t matter what you write about. writing about your major, per se, isn’t any better than writing about a summer mission trip or the time you survived cancer.</p>
<p>dont get caught up in the subject of your essay, and definitely dont get caught up with having a running tally of everything you’ve ever done. just write a strong, well written essay that showcases your ability to think, act, and write on a college level.</p>
<p>that being said, most essays dont even get read anyways.</p>
<p>Um, mentioning it in one sentence can’t hurt.</p>
<p>OK thanks guys, stock update: i might sell BAC when it hits 17.5, wait a while for the banks to go back down and buy Citigroup stocks.</p>
<p>mentioning it one sentence can hurt. its not a death blow, but it can definitely be a poor writing decision if done poorly. if he wants to mention it, its more suited for the hobbies/ec section.</p>
<p>Don’t mention you invested with an account in your mom’s name, and don’t mention that you invested everything in 2 stocks, if you are going to put this in your essay. </p>
<p>I won the stock market game in 2 semesters while I was in a club at UF, and I use it on my resume, just as a bullet under awards and things I have been involved in, but I wouldn’t mention something like this in a sentence on your essay. Either dedicate a paragraph about it and why it was an important learning lesson and experience related to money management, or it will seem irrelevant and pointless to mention.</p>
<p>^ that
in case i wasn’t clear</p>
<p>aforautumn:</p>
<p>that actually helps me a lot with my essay. and makes me feel better. all of my friends write dramatic, emotional, tragic essays to win the sympathy vote (half the stuff they say isn’t even true) and I always thought that admissions could sort of see through that. good to know that they can.</p>