<p>.... something that doesn't fit the norm, but got you into the school you wanted?</p>
<p>I'd really like to know about this too. BUMP!</p>
<p>UChicago kids might've! The UNCOMMON application? I mean, come on. How awesome is that? Their essay questions are insane.</p>
<p>I wrote mine without heeding to the restrictions of the "structured essay" and it almost feels like a short story. I got in to my 1st choice (Hamilton) with it so pm me if you'd like to read it.</p>
<p>I've been wanting to share the results of this story I'd posted earlier for some time.</p>
<p>Friend o' mine DIDN'T want to get accepted to William and Mary, but her parents forced her - said she'd have to try and go if accepted, and used the whole guilt game on her, so she wrote her essay...</p>
<p>...Entirely in a ROT13 transcription of Elvish!</p>
<p>Needless to say, I couldn't make heads or tails of it, but I was deeply and duly impressed.</p>
<p>So, she thought she had no chance to get in, and took comfort in this.</p>
<p>Imagine her surprise when she got accepted! :D :D :D</p>
<p>Apparently, the adcom dude she got just happened to love cryptograms and that sort of thing. :D</p>
<p>She didn't find this as funny as I did...</p>
<p>WOW. lmao, did she wind up going to W&M?</p>
<p>If it's this early, she probably applied ED</p>
<p>Yep she did, and yep, she is, because she made this bet with her parents, and she's a girl of her (elvish, ROT13) words. She's also warmed up to W&M.</p>
<p>Still...</p>
<p>Every time she or I recount this story, I can't help but LOL. :D :D</p>
<p>Oh dear... I've always wanted to do something like that... Or just leave the essay space blank, with just the following: "Accept me. I dare you."</p>
<p>XD</p>
<p>If I had a fee waiver and the university accepted the common app (with a small supplement, at most), I'd so do it.</p>
<p>musechick2007: When I was speaking with a Penn counselor, they said one person answered the question: What was the biggest risk you have ever taken? with "This is the biggest risk I have taken" and then left the rest blank. They got rejected.</p>
<p>I'm writing a really crazy essay for UChicago (I love their prompts, I must say). I don't want to give too much away, but it's about my "recipe."</p>
<p>haha, okay, scratch that, then. XD</p>
<p>But if I were an admissions counselor and saw that the student was brilliant and had that as an essay, I'd accept them. Psh.</p>
<p>UChicago's promps are incredible. I still don't know which one I'm going to do. ^^</p>
<p>I heard a college admissions 'urban legend' that one kid, for a 'topic of your choice' essay that had to be about 1,000 words, pasted a photograph into the space and wrote beneath it "A picture is worth a thousand words."</p>
<p>No word on which school this was for or if the person got accepted, but the story made me smile.</p>
<p>musechick -- University of the Pacific's app is common app and free if you apply online, I believe.. which is why a friend and I are doing Operation: UOP with the craziest essays we can write. (: Hope I get in.. hahah</p>
<p>Zutsuit- That's awesome. It would be an interesting experiment, though.</p>
<p>I'd do that if any Michigan state schools with free apps required essays!</p>
<p>musechick - there are a lot of schools without application fees that use the common app...your idea's hilarious, but the problem is that you'd have to pay to forward your ACT/SAT score...although, there are some schools that don't request a test score. If you can find a free school that doesn't require test scores or teacher/counselor recs, you should so do it. :D</p>
<p>Btw, I wrote my essay about death. We'll see in due time if it gets me into Vassar!</p>
<p>Oh man, that photograph one sounds awesome!</p>
<p>ugh, I forgot about the test scores and the recs. >_< grrr.</p>
<p>Everyone should apply to Bob Jones University. Their dress code makes me want to convulse and die. ACK!</p>
<p>If I ever went to a school called Bob Jones University, my mother would commit suicide</p>
<p>My essay for UT was pretty ridiculous. The prompt was to write about a potential classmate that you could learn something from because UT "has a lot to offer in the way of diversity" and such, so basically everybody wrote about somebody of a different ethnicity/religion/political affiliation/hometown/socioeconomic group/whatever.</p>
<p>And I wrote about somebody who had never ridden in a car with me before.</p>
<p>4815162342, no. Just...no. Old, tired joke.</p>