<p>I was wondering if anyone ever wrote a really random out-there essay and submitted it to a school just to see the results? I was thinking about taking a chance of sending a super unique essay to NYU, while keeping safe with my other applications. Does anyone have success stories?</p>
<p>Any one doing something and standing is one doing something and standing. Some one was doing something and was standing.</p>
<p>Any one doing something and standing is one doing something and standing. Any one doing something and standing is one who is standing and doing something. Some one was doing something and was standing. That one was doing something standing.</p>
<p>-Gertrude Stein</p>
<p>I wrote a really strange one for Georgetown, but got rejected (I applied as a transfer). But my SAT score was way below their average, so it was understandable. I did get into UVA though, and I wrote an essay about my favorite book (which was written by a black nationalist who was in prison at the time for raping a number of women). I can post either one if you are interested...I really dont care anymore since the decisions have past.</p>
<p>im wondering the same thing. i have a weird sense of humor and whenever im writing about myself i like to be funny, so i want to write my college essay about a brownie.</p>
<p>but im not sure if i'll come off as a moron. =</p>
<p>im just afraid the readers will be like "***ff is THIS garbage?" and trash my app. that would make me sad.</p>
<p>Sad indeed :...Can't you be funny AND serious? I do it all the time. The say that, if you're serious, be serious, and, if you're funny, be funny. Just to be safe, funny should be counterbalanced with serious. Make the brownie an analogy for something important and philosophical. Isn't Newton famous for an encounter with an apple...among other things?</p>
<p>I wrote a random essay completely about my bus stop FOUR DAYS before Jan 1... it was spur of the moment. It wasn't a funny essay at all, but rather serious and grim, and it was personalized and all true. My friend and I viewed it as a simple story with some meaning behind it... I liked it a lot.</p>
<p>Stuff to consider: I'm a pretty avg CC student, nothing really stands out- I have good grades, SAT scores, sports, ECs.</p>
<p>Results:
Accepted: University of Pennsylvania, Amherst, Williams, Wellesley, Haverford
Waitlisted: Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton
Rejected: Swarthmore</p>
<p>I also submitted a weird essay about tennis to Penn and JHU.. hmm.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, my Yale essay didn't even follow the essay format. It was mostly doodles. I feel a little bit like a braggart for bringing it up all the time around here, but even more than my acceptance, I'm proud of the work (a lot of thought was put into it, even though I had to use the other essay to warn the committee not to immediately think I was insane), and I'm proud to be going to a school that would welcome rather than back away from creativity.</p>
<p>Daring to send that essay in is really one of the defining choices I've made in the application process. For me, it represented a defiance of stuffiness and a will to shine through all the stress associated with applying to college and just finding my way back to a place before we were all burdened with rules on how things have to be done. The fact it got me in really served to make me certain an Ivy wasn't the hostile place I'd feared it to be - if they are willing to admit slightly insane people like me, my next two years are bound to be a very interesting experience :)</p>
<p>Ok, I'll shut up about my awesomest essay now, promise :)</p>
<p>wow congrats! That's brave... especially when sooo many people pressure you to follow in the footsteps of people that have already gotten in.</p>
<p>An ex-college admissions officer came to my school to talk about the process and he said the weirdest one he read while working at Notre Dam was from this girl who was stoned when she wrote her essay about pot! The admissions office called her up and asked her "WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS SHE THINKING!?" Needless to say, she didn't get accepted!</p>
<p>Hahah, there are lots of these stories in some books at Barnes and Nobles and Borders. Off the top of my head, some of the funny stories include:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>SOmeone overexaggeratinga bout how he's going to save the world and made exaggerate examples of him tackling the evils in his backyard</p></li>
<li><p>Someone writing about how they were superior to everyone in their school and was ivy league bound since he knew how to spell the word "wednesday" in kindergarden</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Oh Man! I Lol'd!</p>
<p>my cousins essay to MIT was something about her hair adn the most questions asked about it she has extremelllllllllllllly LOOOONNNNNNG HAIIIRRR</p>
<p>
[quote]
Do not attempt to get noticed by using literary theatrics or by adopting an overly humorous tone.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>thats from the ucd website. does that mean funny essays are out? what a bunch of lamos.</p>
<p>I think what they're trying to say is when people try to get overly humorous, their jokes fall flat, and they mostly just sound pretentious ("look at me, I think I'm soooo funny!")... and then admissions will just laugh AT them instead of with them. If you can pull off funny though, no one will be like "This essay is funny. Inacceptable."</p>
<p>"This essay is funny. Inacceptable."</p>
<p>lol@this</p>
<p>Whether something is "funny" or not depends largely on the audience. What is funny to other high school students may not be funny to the adult reading your application. If you have written an essay that is "out there," have some adults read it and consider their reaction...but include some adults who appreciate stuff that's "out there."</p>