<p>ahaha i got guitar hero for christmas but we're not allowed to open it early! so i'll just have to stick it out for the next week or so :/</p>
<p>and finish my commonapp essay o.0</p>
<p>Haha, same about commonapp essay... I still need to START to apply to the rest of my schools. >.<</p>
<p>I'm poor, so I don't get much for Christmas.</p>
<p>But it's alright. Screw Christmas: You guys can have it; what you can't have that I can is lots of Financial Aid wherever you get accepted! I'm going to go with ultra-FinAid. After all, FinAid is a once in a lifetime thing; if I get into a good college (or any college, really--all I've got to do is improve on my parents), I'll be able to afford good Christmases for the rest of my life. With my family's history of longevity, that means about 75% of my Christmases will be good, and 100% of my Financial Aid will be good. What do you guys get? Sure, 100% Christmas, but, like...0% FinAid <a href="dramatization">size=1</a>[/size]. Looking at the numbers, I think I win.</p>
<p>I'm using my MIT essay for my common app essay, but I still need to think of another clever topic for my Yale and Harvard supplements. Oh, and another separate essay for Princeton's 300 word one and the UMich honors college.</p>
<p>Yuck.</p>
<p>On FinAid--True. I really do get 0% FinAid... no dramatization. I mean, we're not rich, but my parents have been saving for college for my sister and me since they got married (5 years before I was born); they both came from fairly poor families and felt that that really limited their college choices and they didn't want that to happen to us. And plus, they're just plain stingy.</p>
<p>Lol, I did the "end of the world" essay for MIT, and it wouldn't really make sense with any other essay topic...</p>
<p>^Common App essay is open to any type, really. The end of world essay fits in with the "experience" bullet, or so I've been told.</p>
<p>I did end of the world and called it either "experience" or "topic of my choice" I think.</p>
<p>Mine doesn't, though... I wrote about being born. =P I did it in a kind of cool way, so that you don't really know what's going on until about 1/2 of the way in. I hope it comes across as creative... everyone I had read it really liked it. :-/</p>
<p>How would I fit that one into the common app?</p>
<p>"Tell us about a traumatic experience that made you who you are today."</p>
<p>Or something to that effect. I think it would fit under significant experience, too. It's a bit tongue in cheek, but that's how I'm making my essay fit all my topics- significant person is a 3 year old, end of the world is my having to open a shower curtain... stuff like that. Sounds like your essay could definitely do the same thing and get a few smiles.</p>
<p>lol i checked all the supplemental essay topics and decided to twist my MIT essay for each of my supplements and just write one new commonapp one</p>
<p>My wishlist for Xmas:
1. MIT acceptance letter
2. .........</p>
<p>My wishlist for every Xmas from now until forever:
1. MIT acceptance letter
2. .........</p>
<p>haha :)</p>
<p>Haha. Currently, mine's a pair of real Uggs, a pair of Pumas (I'm a girl, I like shoes... lay off), and Seasons 1 and 2 of Arrested Development.</p>
<p>... and an acceptance letter to MIT. Details, details.</p>
<p>Seriously, though, I've just stopped stressing out about it. Whatever's meant to happen will, and as soon as I check my decision it'll be one of those moments where I'll be like "I've been stressing out for weeks all for this 30 seconds of emotion." It's not worth the emotional turmoil. Que sera, sera.</p>
<p>If #posts in #threads has any effect on admissions decisions, then a lot of people on CC are going to get tubed soon! Seriously, I wonder if the adcoms read these posts and try to guess who we are. Probably not very many as they're kinda busy right now.</p>
<p>Que sera, sera. I am liking your selection of words. =)</p>
<p>Haha, speaking of tubes...</p>
<p>All my friends know I want to go to MIT, which may or may not have been a mistake on my part. Furthermore, they all know that EA acceptances are sent out in tubes. So, one of my best friends in research and my science teacher (who wrote one of my recs and is basically one of the coolest people ever) have found this cardboard tube and have started leaving it around school where they know I'll see it. It's hilarious, because I start cracking up every time I see it somewhere new, but it's absolutely going to suck to break it to them if/when I'm deferred/denied. This science teacher's been rooting for me to go to MIT since freshman year when I had him for Honors Bio.</p>
<p>And neuron, I kind of wish that they'd read these, or ask for pictures, or something. It'd be harder for them to turn down a person they can visualize than just a person on paper. (Yay for interviews! Anyone else think that theirs helped a ton?)</p>
<p>@Vivi. That is my motto right now. That, and it just sounds nice. Yay Spanish. :)</p>
<p>I think they might read these boards but there are just TOO many applicants for them to try to guess who we are.</p>
<p>mine consists of a new watch (one like my old fossil), MIT acceptance (or, in case of deferral or rejection, UChicago acceptance), and a 200GB external harddrive.</p>
<p>:) and my chrismas/hanukkah list includes:
-MIT acceptance (or Chicago, in case MIT is unattainable)
-warm gloves/hat/scarf
-fake Ugg boots (=P real ones are too expensive, and fake ones are just as warm and fuzzy.)</p>
<p>Honestly, the best Christmas present would be to get into either of my early schools - cause then I wouldn't have to fill out the Stanford app :P</p>