Funny Quotes From Stressed EA Applicants!

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<p>Apps are (or at least should be!) in! So now we are forced to reread the posts on this board a thousand times, bite our fingernails, and wait approximately 6 weeks for decisions to come out. But that doesn't mean we can't have fun while doing it!</p>

<p>Post your fave quotes from the board!</p>

<p>And let's possibly have a contest for Most Paranoidly Funny Yale EA CCer! Make sure you credit the quote, and then we can have a running tally if things get really funny.</p>

<p>My personal favorite, so far:</p>

<p>Yale says that it will speed up the process if you put on whether RD or EA,
but is that like a euphemism for "screw everyone who did not read our instruction and did it on their way"?? (davidbonkoo)</p>

<p>rofl.</p>

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<p>I like this one, from ZYaLe:</p>

<p>"So Yale hopes to see supplementary essays which are less than 500 words..but seems I cant reduce my essay length anymore..
so..will 510 words be fine? i'm worried about it.."</p>

<p>I was expecting him to say he had a 700 word supplement essay, so I lol'd when I saw 510.</p>

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<p>Pretty much everything said about whether short takes should be in complete sentences and about whether our Common App essays had to be under 500 words.</p>

<p>WHY, YALE, MUST YOU BE SO VAGUE?</p>

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<p>And let's possibly have a contest for Most Paranoidly Funny Yale EA CCer! Make sure you credit the quote, and then we can have a running tally if things get really funny.</p>

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<p>^^ I purposely didn't join CC until I had sent in my applications to keep myself from publicly forcing my paranoia upon strangers in "public." Now I am regretting this decision as I am now not eligible for the above award (and frankly, as a typical Yale applicant, I must win every contest ever as a matter of principal).</p>

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<p>principle? lol.</p>

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<p>At least he doesn't have a spelling error in his name (look at my sn)</p>

<p>(The second 'l' was intentional, actually)</p>

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<p>Um...yes, I did that on purpose, too? It is supposed to be punny? (<--Lies)</p>

<p>Also, am girl, by the way.</p>

<p>I have dreams where I don't get into college because of my bad habit of typing phonetically and things like the above post happen in my college essay.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure if this counts, but I had a dream where I got back my essay, and there was a place where I left out a comma and the adcom circled it and put auto-reject, poor english. 780 + cannot read english.</p>

<p>I checked my common app essay, and I did leave out a comma where there should have been one.</p>

<p>I QQed.</p>

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<p>Actually, I think spelling errors in CC sns are auto-rejects. So looks like I won't be seeing collegehopefull and princessbell anywhere near Harkness Tower next year...</p>

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<p>wait, what's wrong with my sn? it has nothing to do with that stupid disney character, if that's what you're inferring. </p>

<p>haha, and I can't believe I got a vote for my post! :)</p>

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<p>Cato: Well, how do you define an error? If I've intentionally written hopeful with a second l (as a private joke/identifier to a friend of mine on this site), can the incorrect spelling be said to be so egregious that I stand no chance of admission? In every tradition of philology and linguistics the mere orthography of a language is the LEAST important aspect because it is historically arbitrary . I mean, we're speaking English, so let's use Indo European languages to back my claim.</p>

<p>Start with the oldest, Sanskrit. It's a root based language characterized by ablaut of a root form, the affixing of a stem formant (eg. Present Indicative looks different from Future), and declension (or declination) based on tense, mood, voice, number, and grammatical gender. All of this was systematized before the introduction of a script which is purely phonetic.</p>

<p>Now let's fast forward several thousand years (and several thousand miles) to American English. We just barely have subject and object case forms (who and whom, lol, anyone seen that Office episode?) as opposed to Sanskrit's 8 (nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genetive, locative, vocative), and we have a smorgasbord of vocabulary effected (the verb form of effect) by a typhoon of immigrants who gave us loan words. Now, have we preserved the orthography of those languages? For one, the script of Kanji/Katakana/Hiragana for typhoon is nowhere near what I've written. Even words cognate to English(that use Latin script to boot!) got their spelling changed! Brahta (Sanskrit) Bruder (German,Latin script) to Brother(English, Latin script)? </p>

<p>I mean, what I've just demonstrated there is called Grimm's law (deals with shifting of stops/fricative i.e. d/k/p/f/b etc and things like/s/sh/retroflex s etc) and doesn't even bother talking about the script that things are transliterated in!</p>

<p>Orthography is meaningless; it's just a convenient construct for languages which are subject to change!</p>

<p>(And also, your screen name provides no space between Cato (the many people named so or the think tank?) and numerals. That is nonstandard English practice for designating by number and could constitute the kind of error you feel denies me and another person you don't know admission to Yale)</p>

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<p>Cato: Sarcasm apparently does not translate well online, sorry</p>

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<p>It really doesn't. I've yet to really laugh at anything on these boards, except for one applicant who was freaking out about the 20 point difference from perfect on his SAT I and how he will get rejected from HYPS</p>

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<p>disasterous, please read the following thread:</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Sorry princessbell. I thought your sn was a play on the name. Guess not.</p>

<p>OK. CollegehopefulL, I hope you were trying to match my sarcasm with your own. If not, well, your post gets my vote for most paranoid. You somehow thought that I was being serious when I implied that Yale was, first, going to match your sn to your actual application and, second, going to declare what could have been a simple typographical error or an intentional joke as a sign of such singular stupidity that nothing else in your entire application could outweigh. </p>

<p>Sorry about my sarcasm, guys. I won't attempt it in the future!</p>

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<p>Hey, you're all better off than I am. What, exactly, is a Werg?</p>

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<p>hmmmmm</p>

<p>we are just too much fun!</p>

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<p>Haha. We are a catty bunch, aren't we? So no one's going to take me up on the dance party idea?</p>

<p>As for Cato, don't feel like you need to stop with the sarcasm! I think sarcasm totally translates through the internet, but like all sarcasm, there are always people who are going to be out of the loop. Of course, this is coming from a person who was told several times that her sarcasm came translates as "cyber-'female-doggery'" over the internet.</p>

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<p>Bluecow: It really doesn't.</p>