Favorite recording: Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V and Parts VI-IX by Pink Floyd
Nice, very specific! @TheWaffleMan149
Source of inspiration was the theatre. Recording was Hungarian rhapsody No. 2
@admitmemaybe I only included the parts because the song bookends the album that it is on, and that is how they broke it up. Parts I-V at the beginning, and parts VI-IX at the end! The entire song is just the 9 parts 
Your favorite recording: Pokémon Theme Song
Your favorite source of inspiration: The shower
Well, even if I get rejected at least I had fun 
I love these answers! For favorite recording, I did the song of the last Kauai O’o bird (it demonstrates the effect humans are having on the Earth and her creatures, it’s very humbling). And for inspiration, A crisp fall evening with a slight wind breezing through the curtains in my room with the lingering scent of pumpkin spice.
I put You’ve Got a Friend in Me by Randy Newman as my favorite recording! It’s a part of my childhood and takes me back whenever I heard it.
I put “Roll Away Your Stone” by Mumford and Sons as my favorite recording and “a fresh yellow legal pad and a good pen” as my source of inspiration.
Favorite recording: Unravel by Animenz
Favorite source of inspiration: Art exhibitions
Favorite Recording: “The Universe is Weird” by Hank Green & “Rubber Soul” by the Beatles
Source of Inspo: I basically ranted about the Strand Bookstore.
^^ Also, I know A LOT of people will disagree about the pure amazing-ness that is Rubber Soul, but seriously, hands down, the best Beatles album. So if I’m accepted, I’ll know that the adcoms have good taste in Beatles music. Otherwise, if they DARE try to argue that White Album … or Magical Mystery Tour is better…then, Princeton, my bell, I love you, and that’s all I want to say. (But you suck)
and that is the end to thoughts of me at 12:40 EST
After being rejected by all my safeties as an international student…I’m not sure if I should feel hopeful about Princeton anymore. Being Asian sucks when you see someone with a 1500 SAT and 3.6 GPA get into Dartmouth because he or she is simply Native American.
@schroscat I love Hank Green AND Rubber Soul <3
@arirang Alright, I just want to dispell the notion that URMs get into competitive schools “simply” because of their ethnicity. Being an underrepresented minority is a determining factor in admissions, but it’s often because minorities can bring perspectives to the class that other people can’t. Also, you don’t know why that person has a 1500 SAT. Maybe they couldn’t afford prep classes or they didn’t grow up in a college prep environment. Maybe they have a 3.6 GPA because they live in a bad neighborhood where there are gang fights every night so they can’t study in peace, or they have to work two jobs to support their family. You don’t know what that person’s life is like, so don’t assume that they’re less qualified than you are just because of their ethnicity. There are Asians who get into top schools, aren’t there? Just based on that alone you can’t blame your rejections on your ethnicity. Minorities don’t get into every school they apply to, I have competitive scores and grades and I’m a minority and I certainly didn’t get into every school that I applied to.
@arirang grades/scores aren’t everything for college admissions. the problem is that many of the advantaged kids (a lot of asians come from financially well off backgrounds) have access to HS tutors, SAT prep classes/programs and are thus able to better their quantitative metrics. So their grades and scores are unnaturally higher than they would have been if they came from the same economic environment a typically much poorer URM kid came from.
a college is also supposed to construct its population from different kinds of students - just admitting students on the basis of their scores etc will not be representative of the world experience. Look at Berkeley - if you were a student at there you would think white Americans are just 25% of the population and as an Asian you would not need to befriend any kids outside your own communities. So how exactly will your college experience prepare you for real life if Berkeley is just an extension of Mission San Jose?
colleges tend to emphasize cultural diversity because of many reasons, not the least of which is that they provide an education where the impact is the most relevant. what better way to uplift the disadvantaged SES students than by offering them greater access having recognized the typically harder backgrounds they come from?
By the way I am Asian and my daughter is as constrained as you are in terms of needing close to perfect scores and grades but both she and I understand why this has to be this way.
Expecting a rejection for sure. I’ve gotten rejected from every single American school I applied. I’m pretty sure a rejection from UCLA guarantees a rejection from Princeton. But I still got Canada. Anybody here know about UBC?
@canadianguy123 Yup, I’m an international and I’ve got lots of friends who applied and got in!! Did you get in? 
@Vanskelig I have nothing official yet I just know I have no chance. If you check out my stats you’ll see why
@arirang Also if I may I add my two cents, this world is unfair, andit is about time that you accept that for what it is and run with it. I am white - ah the privileges that must bestow. However, I am from an isolated place where are no tutors for classes and sure as heck no prep for the SAT/ACT.So do I have perfect scores? No, and as many applicants are expected of near perfect stats as you have highlighted.
But when I look at my 34 ACT I know that was all me.
When I look at my UW 4.0, I know that was all me.
The color of my skin and college admissions will never take away the things that I have accomplished away, and they won’t take yours either.
Also, even if you don’t get into Princeton or any of the other Ivy League schools for that matter, remember that those aren’t the only good schools on this earth. The Ivy League is a group of schools that play football together and also happen to have great academics, but there are tons of non Ivy League schools that can offer you the same opportunities, and depending on what your major is, and Ivy League school may not even be the best option!
Hi guys! I’ve been following this thread for a while, but only decided to actually create an account now because of something that some of you’ve mentioned in earlier comments. I listed Henry Miller’s ‘‘Asleep and Awake’’ as my favorite recording, but as I can see all of you mentioned songs… does my option even qualify as a recording? haha I’m super scared now