<p>The admissions process is no doubt much more complicated than it should be. I have had to write essays in response to questions like: ?what did you do last Sunday, or the Sunday before that, or the one before that????(what r they getting at? What if I wrote :I honestly slept all day long) ?What is your intended field of study and do you have any relevant future work plans?? ?Which professor at our university are you most looking forward to learn from and why?? or something like that. Please tell me I?m not the only one who thinks applications nowadays are ridiculous. I mean, what do ?they? expect from a 17 year old. It seems that they are expecting a 17 year old who knows exactly what they want in life, who has done all the experimentation and wants to execute his/her plan, who is interesting and doesn?t waste a moment in his life not doing some sort of ?meaningful? activity, who basically knows it all???</p>
<p>yea, but that's the rule. This whole process is the game. You wanna get in, soyou follow the rule, even if you BS it. I just BS the sunday one.</p>
<p>what if you tell them the truth and say you just sat around the house playing video games until going out to a bonfire and getting wasted later that night?</p>
<p>i remember a couple weeks ago a guy wrote he just watched the news til he fell sleep. He was accepted to NYU</p>
<p>lol that's tellin them what they wanna hear.</p>
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<p>Well, if you BS it a lot they will probably figure out you're lying and a deceiving student is probably less worthy to them than an honest one. It really doesn't surprise me if that is a trick question and just testing your honesty with them. If you tell them some BS like that you were conducting cancer research at a university when you were actually watching the football game on the TV and getting wasted or something to that extent then it looks bad to be figured out as a liar.</p>
<p>I think the sunday one was just them trying to see what you do in your free time, not necessarily your EC stuff but just what you're like as a person. I guess admissions people want to be entertained...</p>
<p>But I totally agree. The competition/stress/costs associated with getting into and going to college is ridiculous. I go to school with people who have basically been training for the admissions process since 7th grade. People BS and pad resumes, freak out about the great amount of essays that need to be written, don't do ECs because they like them but because they look good, and are very numbers driven. Now, I know this isn't everyone, but it is true for a ton of people And betterday is right, no matter how much the rules suck, you have to play by them. Which in itself sucks.</p>
<p>lol, watching the news is still better than sleeping all day.
come up with something realistic but still college-app worthy. like one of the ECs from your app.</p>