<p>To inasummertown: I'm in Orange County, so we're kinda close! If the letters follow the same pattern they did for ED, you'll get yours a day after the East Coasters do.</p>
<p>To mp: I think there's only one girl in our Facebook group from Florida, and most are from the tri-state area. So if that's any representation of the applicant pool, you should be fine! I thought there would be a lot of California girls, but so far I've only met two or so.</p>
<p>etched, I also heard about barnard pcp from a magazine! it might've been seventeen, but I wrote cosmogirl on my application. oh well, they're basically the same magazine.</p>
<p>anyway, I'm from Ohio (lame) and I really really want to go to Barnard. It would basically make my life :)</p>
<p>since apps are all submitted, I was just curious what topics you guys chose for the supplement?</p>
<p>For my "aware of Barnard" I wrote about my Rabbi who graduated from Barnard and my PCP experience</p>
<p>For my "routine" I talked about listening to NPR in the car everyday</p>
<p>For my "fictional character", I wrote about Briony Tallis</p>
<p>For my "issue/gov leader" I discussed meeting with Arne Duncan to revoke One Child Left Behind</p>
<p>what you guys talk about?</p>
<p>aware of Barnard: PCP and how it made me more vocal
routine: journaling
fictional character: Angela Chase from My So-Called Life
issue/gov leader: reforms for public school education</p>
<p>brandnewstate, it's cool you learned about it from there. Actually, they're not the same. CosmoGIRL! is no longer being made. And there were different feels to those magazines...ignore me; I just really want to go into publishing (especially magazines) so I look into this stuff a lot :p</p>
<p>So, for my essays...</p>
<p>Aware: I wrote about how I found it online and once I finally logged onto its Web site it felt like fate and then how I liked the Nine Ways of Knowing and English program.
Routine: Brushing my teeth.
Fictional character: Veronica from Veronica Mars.
Issue/gov't leader: Corruption/Blagojevich. And I mentioned Obama at the end of it 'cause he's from Illinois, too, and offers hope to the US. That made me happy, haha.</p>
<p>And...just a sidenote: it feels really surreal that everyone that's going to be applying RD for this year has this application in.</p>
<p>Englishivy, I was about to write about Briony! But instead I chose Hester Prynne. But that's really cool!</p>
<p>Aware: I accidentally clicked on a wrong link, and it led me to Barnard.
Routine: Writing daily letters to my best friend even though we live five minutes away
Character: Hester Prynne
Issue: Child literacy</p>
<p>Aware: I found it through Columbia and PCP and fell in love.
Routine: I do this thing where I pick a song everyday and use it to set the tone for the day.
Character: Hunter from [title of show]
Issue: Civics education</p>
<p>Oh I'm from california too! (kinda i don't live there anymore) but i have a house in newport coast!
Anyways I liked my topics so I'm going to post them even though I'm ED </p>
<p>so:
Aware of Barnard: My sister's two best friends go there and also some family friends went there.
Routine: Wishing at 11:11 -> it's a bit of a way of praying even though i don't have a religion.
Character: Lucy from I love lucy
Issue: Sarah Palin and how I hate her. Not even kidding. I basically talked about how female politicians need to really get the word out and define what a feminist is. It's not Sarah Palin. I used her as an example of how skewed the definition is. </p>
<p>so ya. and my actual college essay was about waxing. It's not a good idea to post the topic on here, but whatever i doubt someone could figure out my entire essay just from this.</p>
<p>PS: everyone who posts PCP experience etc should probably specify that it's Pre-College Program and not PCP the drug. hah</p>
<p>Yeah, we probably should, but I just figured everyone on here knew that because its the Barnard forum. The worst thing ever was when RAs would scream "PCP NEXT STOP!" on the Subway at the beginning. One of the RAs from my floor actually did it for most of the program which was pretty embarrassing.</p>
<p>letitbe18: haha I forget the double meaning on PCP. It was so funny when we would take planned trips on the subway and at our stop all the RAs would start yelling "PCP!!"</p>
<p>haha mp153 and I are clearly on the same train of thought</p>
<p>"Train of thought"</p>
<p>In context= HAHAHA PUN!</p>
<p>Okay, I'm a loser.</p>
<p>hahaah I guess I don't fully realize my genius sometimes :p</p>
<p>For aware of Barnard I talked about a friend who goes there.
For routine I did how my sister and I get ready for school together every morning.
Character: Lee Fiora from "Prep"
Issue: Homelessness in my town and misconceptions in the New York Times articles about it.</p>
<p>What are all of your personal essays about?</p>
<p>My personal essay is really difficult to explain. It's about writing and words and how they've helped me become a more open person. It sounds really cliche, but I it's really well-done.</p>
<p>Aware- research on the internet (pretty generic)
Fictional Character- Henry Chinaski from "Ham On Rye"
Issue- Illegal Immigration with Lou Barletta
Routine- Calling my grandfather</p>
<p>I don't think my short answers were that good... I'm worried about it.</p>
<p>My personal essay was about how a teacher inspired me, but it ended up being pretty bad. I wrote several essays for the prompt and none of them seemed right, so I wrote the one I submitted quickly one night and just went with it. That was probably a bad idea, but I was so sick of it.</p>
<p>It seems like some of the really fresh and original essays aren't these huge, over-revised, -spent-my-entire-summer-on-it processes. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)</p>
<p>I analyzed the symbolism/emotion represented in one of my favorite paintings and compared it to my own personal struggles living in a rural area</p>
<p>could you tell I want to be an art history major? haha</p>