<p>My life has been a very interesting one but it has been really painfull too.</p>
<p>I felt that the colleges had to know what forced a young boy to fall in love with the most evil person.</p>
<p>Why he saw Hitler as a messiah.</p>
<p>My scores are mediocre but my life wasn’t so to give a complete picture of my life I had to send multiple additional essays to the colleges. ( Harvard had emailed me to send 5-10 more pages about my life, additional resumes, recommendations etc ).</p>
<p>Essays were the only way I could tell my story which numbers alone cannot tell.</p>
<p>You wrote about something you genuinely felt with all your heart…which is the whole point of writing I think.</p>
<p>My tirade is against people who dont feel but write, who state in the most moving words that they’ll change the world but have no intention of doing that, who can build temples of words without the the stereobate of true feeling. I’ve read a hell lot of essays, from classmates. Thats one type of essays–the concoctions that get to me.</p>
<p>There’s also another type. Which is as prevalent and makes writing a draconian task as opposed to enjoyable.</p>
<p>One of my friend was advised to base all his essays around fixed agendas.Essay A should be about diversity. Essay B about …a competition he had won. Essay C about a medal. Essay D about another achievement. Like, every college’s application had to have covered points A to D.“What matters and why?”, “Describe an experience that made you cry” and so many other lovely prompts were made to cater to an agenda. The friend wanted to write about his father’s death and dealing with it, his liking for glass painting…but was made to do otherwise. Not that he did not feel about all that he wrote…He found the whole writing forced and laborious and “work”…no joy in the whole writing itself. He made it to Stanford in EA. I …but see my point? He forced his way through all that writing…he trudged rather than flew. And that isn’t the way nah?</p>
<p>I’m done ranting. Please don’t ask me to defend and stuff. I felt, I said. Agree, disagree or ignore.I dont want to debate. I’m more of an elocution-believer :P</p>
<p>“Debate” and “Elocution” were the two oratorical competitions back at school and inter-school competitions. Debate was debate…Elocution was speech-making. No rebuttal and no defense.</p>
<p>I was more into another team event, so never participated in debates :P</p>
<p>I am with you. Happiness and honesty is far more important to me than success.</p>
<p>Getting rejected from Harvard because of something that I believe is far better for me than to get accepted with a lie.</p>
<p>When I was writing my essays, I was told by someone not to write about my love for socialism, I told him that I was planning to study in America in the hope of getting the freedom to express. If I don’t get the freedom to express my ideas, I wouldn’t be able to learn new things and correct my own mistakes. Going to the US will be a complete waste then.</p>