<p>Hey guys! Just a few quick questions about the "Book's I've Read" Interests section on the Columbia App. Any advice and answers are appreciated. Here is my list:</p>
<p>List the books you read for pleasure in the past year:
"Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks built a Company One Cup at a Time" - Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang,
"Life of Pi" - Yann Martel,
"The Kite Runner" - Khaled Hosseini,
"Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life" - Neil Strauss,
"The Alchemist" - Paolo Coelho,
"Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" - Mitch Albom,
"The Hunger Games: Book 1" - Suzanne Collins</p>
<p>List the required readings you enjoyed most in the past year:
"Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Bront</p>
<p>i feel like i repeat this a lot. but it rings true for all of these kinds of posts.</p>
<p>just. be. honest. don’t try to be someone you’re not, because if you’re admitted, it’s not you they’re admitting, it’s the person they thought you were. i’m sure they’re not going to be like ‘wow that books is a horrible one, we shouldn’t accept someone with such poor reading tastes’ the question is supposed to let the officers know a bit about you. it’s not like the fact that you read twilight in the past year will be the thing they make their decision based on (just an example, not saying you did or anything)</p>
<p>A lot of people wonder exactly what they’re looking for with this book list. I believe they just want to see what sparks your interest and curiosity - what kinds of themes and issues you enjoy learning/discussing.
Your book list looks great. It looks very honest and real.</p>
<p>Are you writing the books you read strictly in the past year? I read a lot of great books in 10th grade, but last year I was so busy with school/testing that I didn’t get to read as many. And some of my favorite books are from what I read in 10th grade.</p>
<p>Is it really necessary to specify “The Hunger Games: Book 1”? The title of the first book is “The Hunger Games.” My incredibly subjective anlalysis of your list is that it’s fine. There’s no reason to add more books as filler; you don’t have to fill up the entire box. The character limit for these question used to be 300 characters; without quotations, you have 382 for the “non-required” reading. So you would have actually run out of space on Columbia’s old application!</p>
<p>Okay, I know its been 3 yrs since this has been posted, but I am doing my Columbia application right now. Actually, editing it. But I was wondering… How literal do they want this book list to be? Do they just want us to list the books, or do they want us to follow format of a short essay? And make it all flowery?</p>
<p>When the supplement asks for the required readings we enjoyed in the past year, does it have to be all books? What if our classes had us read excerpts/chapters from books or certain articles? Still required readings, technically, just not books per se.</p>
<p>At the Columbia info session we attended last month, the admissions rep said they really just want you to list the books. Get flowery elsewhere in the app.</p>
<p>What about textbooks? If you read math/physics textbooks for fun, should you list them or would that convey the wrong impression about your personality?</p>
I know this post is really old, but like someone else here, i read a lot of books that i really liked earlier in my high school year. Should I include those?