<p>now that admissions decisions are pretty much wrapping up, how was the applicant pool this year? any really unique essays??</p>
<p>Well I can tell you that my friend wrote his essay about his favorite word on the "F" expletive. He didn't tell me about it until after his application was submitted. </p>
<p>I don't think it was a great choice....</p>
<p>not at all!! admissions people dont like that!!!</p>
<p>deanj explicitly writes in ?her? blog that she has read many of these essays and only one was good</p>
<p>It's a bit early for me to be reflecting at this point. We're knee deep in transfer applications. We'll have a break around May 1st.</p>
<p>I personally do not like to read swears in essays. My feeling is that a truly creative student could pick a more unique word. I</a> wrote about this on my blog.</p>
<p>There was one great "taboo" word essay that I remember. The word wasn't a swear. That's all I'll say about that for now.</p>
<p>The "F" word essay has been done before and was well-publicized.</p>
<p>Dean J, how many apps were received this year? I believe I read that it was ~18,000. It will be interesting to see what this year's yield will be, but there's no reason to believe that class quality will improve over that of previous years.</p>
<p>I know this is a little off topic but I saw those pics of the files of student applications. As soon as I saw all those student applications I was like Holy Mother of Pearl!!!</p>
<p>Dean J
My son is a junior and is already planning on which teachers to pick for the rec. He is taking Latin indepently out of school(his school does not have Latin) He is actually being taught by a professor at home since in my country there is only one univ where they have just few professors that can teach Latin and my son being a HS student is not allowed to take a course in the Unvi. So the professor comes to our home to teach. This professor is amazed with the work my son is doing.
Since most ask for two teachers rec I was wondering if he could get one by this prof. and another one from his school teacher. He will get probably a great rec from his HS but he believes one from this prof will be amazing. He is planning on having 2 more supplementary rec. Is it ok to have this prof. write one of the teachers rec. many people I ask have different point of view. We just dont want to burden the adcom with so many rec</p>
<p>So it will be like this
1. HS teacher
2 Latin prof.(as one of teachers rec)
3 HS counselor
4. Supplement from volunteer advisor
5. " " " a Professor he interned with for several summers </p>
<p>thank you</p>