Honest why essay

Transfer Students
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<p>Dear Sir/ Madam,</p>

<p>You are asking why I want to transfer to your institution. Honestly, I must say I dont even know.
The truth is that Asians in your school make up to 25% of total population. I have an innate Asian fetish. Therefore, I want to stdy in your school :D</p>

<pre><code> I said that i expected many adventures, challenges in the new school. C'mon, we all know that is lie. CHallenges are everywhere. If i want challenge, I can just confront some tough guys around the corner. In fact, the area around your school is associated with high crime rate. While writing the essay, I was thinking the adventures of avoiding the gunshot that could happen anytime.

I said that I wanted to be mature. No , I dont want. You dont want it either. However, why it seems to be the legitimate reason? Who would be stupid enough to leave home, come to a new place that you would cook, would live, would clean the house by yourself?? I am spoiled since the day I was born and I want to be spoiled forever. I lived by myself in the senior year and I still think that was the most stupid thing I have done in life.

I said that my school didn't provide the courses I wanted. Well, honestly, I dont even know what I want. Today, I want to be Alan Greenspan. Tomorrow, I want to be Obama. Maybe next week, I would want to be a conglomerate's son in South Korea with cute chicks around.

I said that I did not have a social life in my current school. The fact is that I did not talk to everyone at my school. I should have said what's up to everyone including the cooks and the cleaners. Who know if they would be my best friends in life??

I said that I wanted some academic challenge. Well, I dont know if I would like it. Right now, I am so happy and proud of being superstar in my classes.

You asked why I must specifically be in your school. Well, you assume too much. I applied to more than 10 schools. I will go to whichever school accept me.

I still dont understand. It has been 2000 years since the first university was built but we still follow the same requirement. Well , the newly-invented S.A.T are the geeks, the weirds, the linguistics.

How would an essay reflect my personality, my dream and my determination?

How would you be able to accept and reject me based on some pieces of papers?

Hopefully, you dont know who I am but I have said what I truly think.

Here I am, still waiting for your decision.

Please read our essay at least 2 times and evaluate our application at least twice.

If We did not write the essay with the complete honesty, we wrote it with the idealism.

Student at large,
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<p>P/S: you see that I have many grammar mistakes. In fact, I asked for help from my mom, my friends, my professor before turning the esssay in. :D</p>

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<p>If this the essay you want to turn in?</p>

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<p>I admire your courage and enjoy the humor but I don’t think you gonna be admitted :(</p>

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<p>Thanks for lifting our spirits. Nice humor!</p>

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<p>I admire your approach. Though, if I were to write this essay, I wouldn’t send it because mine would probably look like this:</p>

<p>To the admissions committee of one of the many schools I have applied to as a transfer:</p>

<p>I will not bore you with an essay. Instead, I am writing to you today in the form of a letter in order to gain your immediate and direct attention as to why I want to transfer to your institution.</p>

<p>Let me start off with the obvious answer: I don’t want to be stuck in high school 2.0, AKA community college. I didn’t get to where I am because of the grades I got (in fact, my high school transcript was pretty BAMF), nor did I choose to be where I am. Do you, the admissions committee, think it is my dream to live in my Southern California, Orange County bubble? As much as I love being spoiled rotten, I do have morals and some ethics. Studies have shown that Americans actually LIKE being productive. It’s in our blood. But, I digress. Back to the topic at hand.</p>

<p>Ah, yes. Why. Why is that one-worded question that I absolutely despise. Why do I dislike “Why?” Why…what a great question! I dislike “why,” because it always poses the question “if,” in my head. The conditional–also one-worded question–question drives me insane–makes me dream and have high hopes. So “why” is it that I want to go to your institution? Well, I could brown-nose a little here and say it’s the BEST institution that I researched or it has EVERYTHING I could have dreamed about when it comes to the “perfect” institution. In fact, I could condense all of that and say, “Hell–we’re a perfect match!” You would nod your head in approval, but just of approval that I am inflating the extensive pride you have for your school, knowing that you did your job well in advertising the elite status you hoped your alma mater would gain in reputation.</p>

<p>I could do that for you. But you wouldn’t understand what the institution would truly mean to me. What I would gain from said institution cannot be fully determined as…well…I haven’t attended it. How can you admit students who have never even stepped foot on the campus, claiming they would be the best admit (insert institution name here) has ever seen? Oh, wait. I think I know why. Because THEY know how to play the college game. The 2400 SAT score, 800 in every SAT II test, 36 on the ACT, 400+ hours in community service, and “I overcame a huge obstacle–winning class president” kid. Yeah. You know the one I’m talking about. That one. The one that knows how to cheat the system to get into your hoity-toity school.</p>

<p>But what about kids like me? The ones that are okay getting the B’s and the C’s. Aren’t B’s “above average” and C’s are deemed “average”? Since when was being “above average” such a bad thing? The ones that are okay with admitting to humility and acceptance that although they may not be the best, they definitely kicked their own a$$ just so they could learn the material best. I’m sorry I can’t be that perfect scoring SAT kid, who can regurgitate information, rather than apply it. I don’t mean to generalize, but that’s just what all these tests are. Regurgitating information. You know anyone can do that. I want to go to your institution because I’d be doing what one is supposed to do at a university–APPLY the knowledge the instructors pass onto us. </p>

<p>So why aren’t kids like me, the ones who are willing to LEARN, to submit to humility, and the ones who have a true passion to gain valuable knowledge to get far in life…not getting into the hoity-toity schools? </p>

<p>Oh. I know why. Here’s a check for $250,000. I can send cash if you wish. Can I be part of your school, now?</p>

<p>(Granted, this isn’t how I 100% feel. But it gives a pretty good representation of how I think kids who really want to go to an institution and are willing to learn are being cut short of their true potential. The college game…)</p>

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<p>UChicago would admit you. They love people like you. As in the risk takers, philosophers, thinkers, etc.</p>

<p>I honestly would take the risk and use these essays at any school (if your academic record is not absolute perfect).</p>

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ROFLAMO</p>

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<p>@Ace6904 True story, bro. My grades were pretty BAMF. (: And I HIGHLY doubt UChicago would take me, hahaha. One of my best friends got rejected and her stats were so much better than mine. And I don’t like Chicago! Strange city, it is!</p>

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<p>I love 06122010’s version; it’s super creative and interesting to read. However, I still think that the admission officer would reject you “honestly”… After all, being honest and creative does not equal to acceptance…</p>

<p>If your tone can be less offensive and focus more on your unique value, I believe this will be an impressive personal statement. Try to cut off some wordy rhetorical questions as well; those are likely going to **** off the admission reviewers.</p>

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<p>@laypk123 I’m not writing to anyone, honestly, haha. This is a hypothetical rant. You know how you can write letters you plan on never sending to anyone? Think of my version as that. It’s for my own personal collection, haha. Maybe someone on cc can gain something from it. I can only hope to inspire</p>

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<p>I’m really surprised that nobody realized that this was a sardonic satire :/</p>

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<p>^I did, and I think it’s hilarious! I wish someone would be brave enough to send something like that anonymously to an admissions office. I would rofl if I was one of the people reviewing it.</p>

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<p>06122010 I can’t agree with you more
send it !!!</p>

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<p>This sort of letter, unless done very subtly (which is terrifyingly difficult to pull off and almost never happens), just screams ego and laziness. If you’re dead set on it, best to have it critiqued and proofread by as many teachers and counselors as possible.</p>

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<p>Again…I was just writing it for fun…</p>

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<p>@06122010 </p>

<p>I knew you were writing it for fun :slight_smile: I’m a little worried about the people who didn’t! JKJK.</p>

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<p>Smh…hahaha.</p>

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<p>A lot of my friends tried doing this our senior year in high school.
In general, two types of people write funny essays like that: The kind that don’t do it intentionally, and the result is an entertaining, but true, essay from the heart,
or a smartass trying to show the admission’s office how smart they are.</p>

<p>I think it’d be cool to show 06122010’s type of personality in an interview, but I wouldn’t take the chance in an essay. :P</p>

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<p>@Keachoy Ahahahahaha. Hey, if you ever want to know what I’m like in real life, all you have to do is meet me or spend a day talking to me. I don’t put constraints in my personal traits because everyone is entitled to their own perceptions of who I am. </p>

<p>And I agree. If I sent in my essay as I did, I would probably get denied by every school, ahahaha. Hence the reason why I said (verbatim, btdubs) “I wouldn’t send it…”</p>