<p>That being said I read a lot of stuff outside of school that shows things about me that aren’t conveyed anywhere else, I had a reason for choosing a booklist besides simple laziness.</p>
<p>I forgot about my TASP booklisr. Actually since I subitted in November and I read a ton of books in December to have more on my TASP list (did not help me get in. I was rejected so hard), maybe it would have been a list of decent length. Whatever.</p>
<p>recycled my University of Michigan essay… it worked, too.</p>
<p>my princeton/yale supplement</p>
<p>I recycled my Amherst supplement, haha. It was by far my favorite of all of the essays I wrote, so I just tweaked it a little bit and attached it.</p>
<p>I wrote about my exchange year in the Dominican Republic!</p>
<p>er… reading what you guys submitted, i am slightly worried about my supplement. </p>
<p>i wrote an essay about Latin American Boom Literature (why Magical Realism is
generally confined to Latin American lit), which, I thought, would make me
special. I am Korean living in China, so my great interest in Latin American Lit might be
something unusual.</p>
<p>Mine was about a wedding day. I’d say if you read it it’s pretty generic. But genuine, nevertheless.</p>
<p>mine: volunteer experience, how it changed my perspective. sounds cliche but it was a real experience. and the essay was good. and it wasnt as cliche as u might think</p>
<p>Mines was about Indians worshiping cows and how my experience with this part of Indian life helped broaden my perspective into one that was more accepting of the quirky/plain weird aspects of life</p>
<p>I too used my supplemental essay from Princeton’s supplement.</p>
<p>I wrote about a musical that I had written with a friend about people that eat eachother after a semi-apocalypse and related that to my background (having to leave Nepal because my parents were scared I was gonna get kidnapped by the Maoists)</p>
<p>i wrote about the word free in three parts. free as in something having no cost (talked about my family’s financial difficulties and sociology), free as in personal freedom/free will (talked about my love for philosophy), and free as in having free time (talked about an experience with a friend).</p>
<p>basically, an analysis of the various definitions of the word free.</p>
<p>it was 500 words, i wrote 1-2 paragraph for each part…idk, is that as creative as i (would like to) think it is? :)</p>
<p>I wrote a philosophical essay too. It was titled ‘Religion and Science’.
I tried to compare Creation in the book of Genesis in the Bible and the Big Bang Theory. Also, Man’s creation according to the Bible and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
Eventually, I went on to state that Religion and Science are complementary to each other.
Sound interesting???</p>
<p>I did not submit one.</p>
<p>I used my Caltech essay about how I incorporate math/science into everyday life. It was pretty much the nerdiest sample of writing in existence. (I applied for math.)</p>
<p>I wrote about boar-hunting in mid-July in the west plains of Malawi.</p>
<p>I wrote about my struggle for culture in the suburban midwest.</p>
<p>I wrote about the merits of a liberal arts system/interdisciplinairy approach to science.
Yeah. I hope it doesn’t qualify as one of my infamous incoherent rants. It probably does. </p>
<p>My common application essay was about riding my bike to school everyday. That one was better, methinks.</p>
<p>WOW! 50 books per annum. That’s a book a week! I assume you are not reading War and Peace-sized tomes every week.</p>