Penn's app questions lame

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Penn's trying to be all cool and quirky and whatnot with its app questions this year, but they just come across as lame and cliched.</p>

<p>'Write page 216 of your autobiography'... c'mon.... LAME</p>

<p>'Write about a first experience'...c'mon...PERVERTED</p>

<p>I, for one, refuse to answer such irritating questions. That's right, I'm not applying to Penn because their common app sup rubs me the wrong way.</p>

<p>I hope you're happy, penn adcoms. You have decisively proved that there ARE such things as stupid questions, and that you are familiar with every single one of them. </p>

<p>:(</p>

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<p>Hope you're happy, you won't have a shot at Penn :(</p>

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<p>Well for one, they've had those questions for a while.</p>

<p>ALSO, if you're applying by Common App, those essays are OPTIONAL. Only the "Why Penn?" essay is required if you are writing a common app essay.</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, their little 'optional' disclaimer is even lamer than their essay questions</p>

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<p>o well, less competition for the rest of us</p>

<p>but from your attitude, i dont think you'd b much competition anyway</p>

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<p>Penn has had these questions for YEARS.</p>

<p>I guess that not many others find them prohibitively onerous--the number of applicants has risen dramatically over the last several years.</p>

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<p>Just because you find those questions hard to answer, it doesn't mean they are lame.
I find Page 217 essay to be very effective way to measure applicants' creativity and personality.
By the way, in your perspective, University of Chicago should be the most perverted school ever created. Mentioning Borges for undergrad admission? Give me a break.</p>

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<p>the old chicago question my year had to do with super-size mustard. yeaaah</p>

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<p>Wow, I didn't know Borges was in UChicago's application. That totally rocks!</p>

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<p>looks like someone doesn't like to think</p>

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<p>if you think 'write page 216' is what thinking is all about then i pity you</p>

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<p>Sounds like you're looking for a more Drexellent college. Have fun with that.</p>

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<p>writing pg 216 involves thinking creatively as it requires you to think about what to say so that you can reveal a characteristic of yourself through future aspirations. it is a very nice part of the application to turn your application into a story.</p>

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<p>isnt pg. 216 on of more than 1 optional essays anyways?</p>

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<p>hahahaha "drexellent" hahaha that's hilarious. How optional is the "optional" essay anyway?</p>

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<p>hahaha, I knew it... I totally knew it. I was 120% sure before I got into this thread that there will be tons of people saying stuff like "you won't have a shot at Penn" or "we don't want you here" etc.</p>

<p>@debaser17
if you're not a troll, then come back to this thread next year and tell us what universities accept you :) but then again, people here will still say "penn is 1000x better than your university" so it's pretty pointless.</p>