<p>I'm planning to submit my essay on "music as my life's journey" under the optional section for my application. Will this be appropriate if I'm applying for the engineering school?</p>
<p>Ummm, no response?</p>
<p>Is it connected in any way to engineering?</p>
<p>What is the prompt for the optional section? </p>
<p>Have you given good reasons why you wnt to study engineering? I trust that your “journey” essay won’t give the impression that you’d rather be studying music.</p>
<p>The more I think about it, the more of it doesn’t relate to engineering. I am glad to send it to anyone who wants to read it. But, let me know what’s best.</p>
<p>The optional prompt is: Is there anything else you would like the admission committee to know about you?</p>
<p>That sort of prompt is often used to explain unusual personal circumstances such as an illness. </p>
<p>Does your interest in music appear elsewhere in your application–e.g., as an EC, in a recommendation, etc.?</p>
<p>Yes. But this essay describes it in greater details. I don’t think music is what Cooper Union looking for, so does sending a supplemental music essay/resume/recording help or hurt my chances?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s inappropriate… schools like to see well-rounded student, and if music means that much to you, that’s what you should go with. It will come across better when its from a truthful place.</p>
<p>I also don’t think it’s bad to express a musical interest. I’m just concerned that you come across first and foremost, when one considers the application as a whole, as an engineering applicant. Somewhere in your application, are you quite clear about your desire to study engineering?</p>
<p>While I do not advocate trying to come across as a flat one faceted person, I think your engineering emphasis should be first and foremost. From a brief look at Cooper Union’s website they come across as being more focused on specific fields rather than well roundedness. If you were really brilliant and could come up with an original way to show how your love of music correlates to your love of engineering, I think that would be a big plus. Just my thoughts. Your app, you of course have the final say. If you would like someone to look it over, I would not mind. Just PM me.</p>
<p>I cannot count the number of engineers I have known and I don’t believe a single one of them is/was without some sort of intense interest (if not many) outside of engineering. Revealing your passion for music and its importance in your life’s journey is a fine way of relaying more clues as to “what makes you tick”. That’s what the optional prompt is seeking and your proposed essay is perfectly appropriate provided it imparts insight about your depth and/or breadth in terms of inspriration or intellect or…whatever it is that makes music important to you.</p>
<p>My essays were everywhere.
main essay: broken leg/taekwondo
ec essay: music (playing the flute)
supplements: messenger bag, my necklace, and a trip to a genetics conference.</p>
<p>Even though I plan to major in a science-y field, it doesn’t “consume” the themes of my essays. As you can see I only reveal it in a supplement.</p>
<p>It is very important that you show the adcoms that you have other interests besides what you are majoring in. It shows a “fuller” person.</p>
<p>It’s definitely good to be a well rounded person. I think it’s cool if you go along with the music essay, because it shows that you have a passion for something other than engineering. You are sure that you will be applying to the engineering school?</p>
<p>make sure to answer every promp precisely. As a general rule of thumb school elite schools want a well rounded class not a well rounded individual. If you are a highly acomplished player than yes you could use it. But even in that case, that should be the focus but not the answer. In other words if you are a an acomplished player make sure to tie that in into emgineering and what CU has to offer</p>
<p>Hey, I’m currently writing an essay like yours that connects engineering and music but im stuck on how they will connect. i know that things such as the use of creativity and determination and such, Im just confused on how to directly fuse everything together. do you think you can help me out/ show me your essay? Im majoring in mechanical engineering btw. :)</p>
<p>Well…A post from 2009…</p>