<p>cuz for my common app essay, i wrote my essay on significant experience topic essay and wrote about my first year (5th grade) experience of coming to America and how that impacted me and how i was able to gain two of the most powerful abilities by coming here.... </p>
<p>i think it's a really good essay and when my english teacher read it, she said that she was proud of me lol .. :)</p>
<p>do you think cornell will like those kinds of essays.. essay that gives insight to how a person adjusts and stuff... i am hoping that when the adcoms read it, they chuckle a little of my accomplishment :) that's ultimately the goal of the essay for me lol .. just wondering.. :)</p>
<p>well i wrote about being hairy and it was f'ing hilarious and pretty good from what i can gather. i figured that since my common app was going to pretty much mostly reach schools i could do with a risky essay with the chance of making myself memorable to the admissions people.</p>
<p>I used a lot of light humor in my essays. I certainly hope that they don't mind the slight inclusion of humor in the essays. :) :0 0:) ;) I have fun with the smileys</p>
<p>well...a college counselor told me humor is optional. It might make an essay memorable, but if the essay isn't on a humorous topic, and the humor sounds forced in, then definitely do not include it just to be "funny." Otherwise, I don't see a problem with it. Personally, my common app essay isn't funny at all--since it was on personal growth and in dealing with a lot of my childhood problems. But I attempted to exhibit another aspect of me through my supplement essay, and made it moderately humorous. I hope it works ^_^</p>