<p>I read FHM and MAXIM (have subrscriptions to both). Would it be offensive to list them? I know my admissions officer is a female.</p>
<p>Also, for books, I have read a lot of poker/gambling books in the last year, should I include those?</p>
<p>I'd say that putting a poker book would be fine, FHM and MAXIM might be little edgier. I'm listing pop magazines, but those go a little beyond.</p>
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<p>can AP and Retuers be considered newspapers? I read all of my news online</p>
<p>AP and Reuters are both acceptable. I had Reuters as one of my papers on my early decision application and i was accepted for SEAS 2010. If you want to, you can put like MAXIM or FHM as well, however, one of them is probably enough. I put MAXIM along with Popular Science and Time and the Sporting News.</p>
<p>Columbia wants ppl that are human, not robots. Even if they arent the "scholarliest" of literary works, they still appreciate that you tell the truth, and that you like to read something for entertainment and not just for academia.</p>
<p>Poker books, AP, Reuters -- clearly fine.</p>
<p>I'm not sure that <em>I</em> would have felt comfortable listing FHM/Maxim, given that some people think they're borderline porn (and the admissions office has more women than men). This isn't the sort of thing that will get you auto-rejected, but it could strike someone the wrong way so you'll have to decide if the risk/return is worth it. There is sort of a double standard in that it would definitely be OK for a girl to write down Cosmo but questionable whether a guy should write down Maxim, when Cosmo has much more of a ring of prurience.</p>
<p>What movies/plays did you guys put? I'm still internally debating what I should have on mine, 'cause I don't want to sound like a pseudointellectual, but I also don't want to sound like a little kid.</p>
<p>definately i would go for a mix of movies. I'm going to be myself.
As for magazines/newspapers, what if I just got a subscription like, this year (Fall/Winter)? It's the Globe and Mail, a prominent Canadian newspaper, but I've only recently started to read it. Should I put this down?
And also, how could they "test" you if you've actually read this stuff? I know in interviews they could ask you to review and article, but then, you could just read one article and say you've always read it.</p>
<p>Ahaha, I listed zines like People, Elle, Seventeen, Vogue. I answered honestly to every question, despite how girlish it makes me seem.</p>
<p>Nobody's going to test what you read/watched/etc.</p>
<p>does putting down a pop magazine reveal anything about you (other than that you are teenager)? I'd say put down 1 or so is fine but don't fill the whole 2 lines with all pop magazines</p>
<p>I mentioned the New Yorker, etc. but then I also listed US Weekly and apologized for it!! It is a guilty pleasure. I also listed the Gossip Girl series under books. I hope this doesn't equal an outright rejection!! Haha</p>
<p>there was a thread a while ago on what ed students put in books/magazines/entertainment etc.</p>
<p>i mentioned 3 local papers i read more or less daily, punk planet, maximum rock&roll and vogue, so a mix there. i also put "a plethora of zines" haha, cos that is something i read LOT of regularly, yup. </p>
<p>and books eep they were all fairly literati type but i just answered it honestly on the stuff i really loved in the last year and that's what I'minto i geuss so meh. totheoriginal poster though, I wouldn't put both fhm and maxim probably, but just one.</p>
<p>well I put down ym for magazines, LOTR and HP for books. of course those werent the only ones I put down.</p>
<p>You shouldn't apologize for something on your app; I hope the poster who mentioned that didn't actually do it. That would make you seem underconfident and unsure of yourself. And no way would you ever be tested on this! They just want to get a better idea of who you are as a person.</p>
<p>it was a "haha, sorry" type of deal, as in light hearted. I'm sure the adcoms won't be like, "uh oh, low self esteem here!" someone who was truly ashamed of reading US, etc, wouldn't bother to put it down.</p>
<p>Honestly? I think this part is just to know you a bit better. I mean theres a difference between reading philosophical books and a research magazine. It just to know your interests. Also it shows that you have a life and like to be intellectual.</p>