<p>Recently enjoying my new favorite pastime of thinking of what part of my app will get me rejected, I thought of everything I sent to Dartmouth. The common app plus a peer rec. Now compared to the 6 essays I sent to Princeton, that's not too much. And the peer rec? Do they even read it or are they just trying to see if you have any friends at all?</p>
<p>So do you CCers out there think that you have painted an adaquate portrait of yourself to the admissions office, or do you still feel like they don't know you?</p>
<p>I, for one, think that for the $75 I'm paying them, they should read a few more essays. So when my thin envelope arrives in april, at least I'd feel as though they knew me at least a little.</p>
<p>I can relate.
I think that the information I submitted represents me, but I do feel a little smaller after summing myself up on so few sheet of paper. I could always write more, but then who wouldn't like talking about himself?</p>
<p>If it got lost in the rambling, I do agree with you.</p>
<p>They don't know me all that well. Unfortunately, it's hard to know anyone through a college app. I don't even know myself all that well, to tell the truth.</p>
<p>I, for one, am glad they didn't have 6 essays, though. The ones I wrote took long enough. Maybe they should do like an optional additional essay or something? I can understand how they wouldn't want to read extra essays, with all the applications they have to read...</p>
<p>Dartmouth Does Not Know Me At All.. I Think They Jsut Got The Tip Of The Ice Berg Of Me.. B/c I'm Sooooo Insane.. No One Truly Knows Me B/c I'm Just Too Damn Crazy.. Really...</p>
<p>But Dartmouth Is Lucky To Have Me B/c I'm Jsut Soo Nuts... Dartmouth Is Gonna Be Alive!!!!</p>
<p>And...</p>
<p>I<3dartmouth</p>
<p>Omg I Love Dartmouth Sooooo Freakin Much!!! I Love You Dartmouth!!!!!! Thank You!!!!</p>
<p>Yeah that's what I'm talking about...optional essays. Something that you can send in if you want..no biggie.</p>
<p>Even if they don't want it, I still faxed Dartmouth a 500 word update essay last week. Chances are they won't read it, but I couldn't think of anything else to do after mid years were in.</p>
<p>when i completed my common app. i thought they wouldn't really get to know me just by reviewing the common app and peer rec. Well as we all know, we've already written lots and lots of essays for all the other colleges. so i attached one of my essays for MIT onto the additional information section. I have no clue if they are gonna read it or not, but at least i tried my best to let them know what im really about. </p>
<p>O god, i gotta do my hw, but i can't stop thinking about colleges and likely letters. LOL</p>
<p>haha yea basically that's what i did. maybe you can even say i <em>over-abused</em> the extra info section. HEY but still, i really didn't want to leave the ENTIRE extra info page just blank.</p>
<p>I think they know me pretty well... my peer rec (if they read it) provided anecdotal evidence of how I am outside of school, and my teacher recs gave some good anecdotes of how I perform in school. Then I got an alumni rec that talked about the values I posess, as well as some more anecdotal evidence on a non-high school friend level.</p>
<p>And if the recs alone didn't do it, then my essay did. It was very personal and well-written, in a style that is very charcteristic of me.</p>
<p>I also sent in an additional essay and a CD of me playing the piano (live in concert lol). This essay allowed me to delve deeper into my personality and express my views, opinions, and the different facets of myself.</p>
<p>And if all of these pieces of paper allow them to see who I am, then hopefully, oh so hopefully, they will give me a chance. A chance to thrive; a chance to be happy; a chance to be where I really want to be.</p>
<p>I hope that they see how much I belong at Dartmouth. How much I want to be there. How much I need to be there. I can only hope that they know these things. I wish I could do more, but hoping is all I have. Hoping has become my only solace as well as my only enemy. I just hope my hoping doesn't let me down.</p>
<p>So here's to hoping, here's to happy endings, and here's to ending up at Dartmouth this fall.</p>
<p>"I hope that they see how much I belong at Dartmouth. How much I want to be there. How much I need to be there. I can only hope that they know these things. I wish I could do more, but hoping is all I have. Hoping has become my only solace as well as my only enemy. I just hope my hoping doesn't let me down."</p>
<p>words out of my own mouth, cali. i sent some stuff which i'll talk about later, we're heading to an assembly atm...</p>
<p>lol it's true, i also sent in an audio recording of myself playing the piano, but with a fellow high school senior on the cello...it was a Brahms cello sonata, about 17 pages/10 minutes, and since i have my crazy borderline-photographic memory, I played it from memory. I was taking this for granted until I played this piece at a recital and everyone was like "You didn't have any notes, was that FROM MEMORY?!?!?" I even put "played from memory" on the tape lol. Also, I sent in slides/prints of my artwork...and even though i had two teachers filling out my common app recs, my GC attached the third letter (just the letter, not the forms) from my Gov teacher when I asked her to write me one for G-town SFS (since my other recs are from math and english lol)...turns out she GRADUATED from G-town SFS, think that'll help? lol</p>
<p>I actually think my essay, recs, etc. did a fairly good job of showing who I am. </p>
<p>I also really liked the 5 words about yourself. I spent a good deal of time pondering. Unfortunately, I now can't remember what I wrote :-/ But i did think about it for a while.</p>
<p>haha yeah, we had to do those when filling out forms that'd help our guidance counselor with our recs...i think i put "positive, passionate, intelligent, wholesome" and something else...creative? happy? don't remember.</p>