Please help! I'm going 2 send this in soon 4 columbia. Please give honest opinions!

College Search & Selection
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<p>MY BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THE 300 CHARACTER LIMIT, IT'S SUCHA RESTRICTION ON MY WORDS. I CANT WRITE EVERYTHING I WANT TO. ANY HELP WITH THAT?</p>

<p>List the books you read for pleasure in the past year:
As a hobby I enjoy reading numerous books in my spare time.The titles are:Hamlet,Romeo and Juliet,Foucault's Pendulum,Titus Groan,The Color Purple,Les Miserables,Cantos,City of God,Beloved,Clarissa,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.All of these books have taught me a important valuable life lesson.</p>

<p>List the required readings you enjoyed most in the past year:
Throughout my academic years, my instructors assigned many required readings.The titles are:Ulysses,the Sonnets,The Book of Isaiah,Invisible Man,Island of the Day Before,To The Lighthouse,Paradise Lost,The Diaries of Anne Frank,To Kill a Mockingbird. These books were very inspiring and motivational.</p>

<p>List the films, performances, exhibits, concerts, shows, etc. you enjoyed most in the past year:Art is an expression of ideas and emotions. There are many films and locations in New York that represents art in a beautiful manner.The film Antigone depicts amazing graphic arts.The Continental Exhibitions,MOMA Exhibits,Phantom of the Opera Show.These performances are an ideal illustration of art.</p>

<p>List and describe your activities, including jobs, during the past two summers: I enjoyed visiting the American Museum of Natural History.In the tour,I observed the unique artifacts,statues,paintings of many Presidents in the U.S. I listened to a speech about the wars that America experienced over the years.From the trip,I have learned about America's society and civilization.</p>

<p>In the summer,I was occupied reading a captivating book called The Odyssey,a story of a Greek hero named Odyseus.He experiences a time-consuming expedition to reach Ithaca after a ten year Trojan War.In the end,the country is at peace.The book has educated me about courage,loyalty and determination.</p>

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<p>Can anyone please respond? It would be appreciated =)</p>

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<p>sorry, but 4th graders can’t apply to Columbia. Wait about 8 more years.</p>

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<p>Well, previous poster pretty much nailed it. Don’t mean to be rude but this is elementary school level book reporting. If you are serious, I hope you will give this to your counselor or a college advisor and have them counsel you on colleges that will be much more appropriate for you.</p>

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<p>Definitely a flame.</p>

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<p>Just list the book titles. The other information is extraneous.</p>

<p>ETA: as I recall, there really /isn’t/ much space to do anything other than list titles anyway.</p>

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<p>Please tell me you’re joking.</p>

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<p>Yikes, this is bad</p>

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<p>wow I guess everyone agrees. I thought it was a good idea to include a heading and an ending. I’m not sure how to just dive into and list the titles of books. Can anyone please give an example?</p>

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<p>It’s unnecessary, since the people at Columbia know what they’re asking you. I just listed the books like this:</p>

<p>Fury (Salman Rushdie), Rise and Shine (Anna Quindlen), Ariel (Sylvia Plath), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)…</p>

<p>That’s really all you need to put. Bare bones. I think some of the posters are being a little unfair–what you’ve written is ridiculously simplistic but it’s hard to go into more detail with those space restrictions. So best not to do the header at all; it’s a little cringeworthy. The Columbia directions do say LIST.</p>

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<p>Why would you send this in now, anyway?</p>

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<p>I assume OP is a transfer–Columbia’s transfer deadline is tomorrow.</p>

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<p>like I said, wait 8 more years.</p>

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<p>It says LIST not explain!</p>

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<p>ccers, just give up and walk away…walk away…</p>

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<p>Ok so I won’t be a **** and actually post something constructive: when they say to list the books and you give a half page of great works they will call you on your bs. No one reads Huck Finn for pleasure the book is 50 some odd chapters long when twain should have ended it in chapter 28. But that’s beside the point, the admissions comitee wants to see who you are not another kid trying to stick his nose up their ***. so first off get a real list of books you like there are plenty of contemporative writters that are great, ( and alive)</p>

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<p>“:Art is an expression of ideas and emotions. There are many films and locations in New York that represents art in a beautiful manner”
good writting is putting an assortment of words together without having them sound like ****. they know what art is NEVER define things in writting, unless you are talking about a quantum physical phenomena odds are they know what it is( no definitions leave Webster out of you essays) two: there are many… NOOOOO! You are torturing people, cut that. The part about new York is fine you are giving them your background, that’s cool. You could say some thing alon the lines of: in the splendor of the big apple Pepitos play of the magnificent pineappple was breathtaking, so- andso’s cha cha heart throbbing, etc… There exist rhetorical strategies in writting one of them is called assyndeton, look into it it’ll help get alot across with little words.</p>

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<p>List and describe your activities, including jobs, during the past two summers: I enjoyed visiting the American Museum of Natural History.In the tour,I observed the unique artifacts,statues,paintings of many Presidents in the U.S. I listened to a speech about the wars that America experienced over the years.From the trip,I have learned about America’s society and civilization.</p>

<p>In the summer,I was occupied reading a captivating book called The Odyssey,a story of a Greek hero named Odyseus.He experiences a time-consuming expedition to reach Ithaca after a ten year Trojan War.In the end,the country is at peace.The book has educated me about courage,loyalty and determination.</p>

<p>If you want a shot at C you need better summers they are looking for leadership and drive, not a kid that sits at home all summer whose highlights are a book without any meaning to you and an analogous trip to the museum. It would be fine to write about what you wrote exept it doesn’t matter! They don’t care about a Trojan warrior they care about you! Why is that book significant? Did it change you? can you identify with the protagonist? The fact that the book exists doesn’t affect their thoughts of you, they want to hear about you, your interests and accomplishments (which apparently aren’t much join a club or sport and do something . That’s it good night tell me if any of that helped.</p>

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<p>LIST. It’s all that’s required and avoids dealing with your writing.</p>

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<p><em>sigh</em> Huck Finn is “real” book–whatever the hell that means.</p>

<p>And, there’s nothing wrong with taking it easy the summers between one’s high school years.</p>