Friendly reminder that this is not a chance thread. 
We will find out our fates soon (though not soon enough!)
@JTheGreat58 I applied to Human Ecology for Human Development. Iām a URM too
I feel like everything will come down to what the AdCom think of my essays.
Hopefully AAP will get more boys this year!!! tough to be a male applying AAP!!
@rhdtai Same my essays were the strongest part of my application
Yeah, I definitely feel that my essays were pretty solid. Mind if I ask what you guys wrote about for Common App/Cornell Supp?
I can do nothing right now except checking this forum and daydreaming
@JTheGreat58 i applied to biology and society. I wrote about how i volunteer with disabled adults and how that got me interested in behavioral sciences. I also wrote about how i was able to see the struggle that they go through to become more independent and how i want to have a background in public policy and behavioral sciences to find a way to make societal changes. I described poitics as a game if poker lol i hope they thtink its clever and not stupid.
@JTheGreat58
Did the thing about solving a problem
on world hungerā¦ i knowā¦ clicheā¦ but like environmentally sustainable farming and being able to grow food in harsher environments without destroying the land
Oh forgot about the supplement
Wrote about how much I like plants and gardening and research, hence Plant Science Major
Tbh i think thats kinda of clicheā¦ like playing cards analogy is everywhere. However all the stuff u did seem really nice because it is directly related to ur major. Think back to my supp essay, there isnt much useful content except for random ideas and feelingsā¦wow this just scares me
I wrote about my heritage and how I hated it at first and came to love it now. and my supplement is about my interests in human development and my research. I liked them the most
For my Common App essay I chose the first prompt, the one about special interest/talent that is meaningful to me. I wrote about my walk to a local pool hall on a monday evening and described my experience playing pool billiard and how the game relates to my being. I really liked it because I felt it was unique and admission officers probably donāt get too many essays about pool. For my Cornell Supplement, I wrote about my work experience as a human resource intern since it relates directly to my major and I believe it shows great fit (ILR). @JTheGreat58 How about you?
for common app, i wrote about competitively solving rubikās cubes and how that has helped me overcome my stage fright and for the supplement, i just wrote about my love for biology and chemistry as i applied to biochem as my major
Dang guys, I didnāt realize youād all respond so quick. This is actually pretty epic. Makes me look forward to (hopfully) attending school with you all next fall.
@JTheGreat58 For my common app essay, I wrote about how being a mock trial witness has helped me gain confidence and how now Iām an attorney and blah blah. It was like a 7/10 tops. My HumEc supplement was much better, I talked about the high rural poverty and meth epidemic in my town. I work as a summer camp counselor at a free summer camp for poor kids in my town and I wrote about that too, and how I want to learn how to help them
Yeah @rosiem714 I definitely think my Cornell supplement was stronger than my Common App essay. I talked about how my friendās love for math shaped my own, and I how I plan to utilize the resources available at Cornell to expound on this. But since I intend on majoring on econ, I also talked about how having a strong mathematics background would allow me to be successful in Economics. I made sure to research courses and professors at Cornell and included them in my essay to make it look more personal.
Dang, I called an old buddy that moved from Bolivia to the States just to catch up and he ended up telling me that he got a likely letter from Princeton about two weeks ago and already spoke with Princetonās tennis coach about the upcoming season. I envy him so muchā¦
Oh and for the commonapp essay i wrote about how i picked out my viola. It had a tiny crack and was really ugly so i didnt want it at first. Leaving it was my failure. But it sounded so good and i couldnt stop thinking about it because it was the only one that felt perfectly comfortable playing with my abnormally stubby pinky. I learned that beauty means nothing and two imperfect things can be perfect for each other.
How will you guys be killing the next four days? Iām honestly not even thinking about it. I definitely feel like I could have done a million things better over the last three years like maybe participate in more clubs, or try a little harder. But thereās honestly no point in lamenting over the past. āDonāt cry over spilled milk.ā All I do know is that if Iām granted acceptance, I intend to utilize the resources of the school to its full potential so that I can look back and have no regrets.
@JTheGreat58
Life goes onā¦ Time will be used for work, trying to figure out when, if ever, it is going to snow, and wasted on the internet as usual