<p>if i did my why penn essay to the tune of a song will i seem like i don’t want to go there? i thought i could use it as an oppurtunity to stand out.</p>
<p>This isn't the University of Chicago we're talking about here buddy. Pulling a stunt like that is a good way to get yourself added to the "Rejected" pile.</p>
<p>yea avoid gimmicks, adcom doesnt have time for nonsense (I dunno if u heard about the guy who biked all the way to stanford to hand his app in and wrote an essay about that ... he got rejected).</p>
<p>Keep it creative, if thats what ur going for, but a song? I dont think its a good idea</p>
<p>Alright, there is a lot of deliberate misinformation in this thread. Let's employ some logic here.</p>
<p>First. To the poster above me. How could this guy turn in his application and then write an essay? That doesn't make chronological sense. Your essay is part of your application.</p>
<p>Second. I wrote one of my essays to the tune of a song and I think it turned out great. There are only a finite number of reasons to go to Penn, and the adcom has read them all dozens of times. Might as well go with something entertaining and somewhat-creative.</p>
<p>There are too many kids out there with perfect scores, ECs, recs, the whole package. A "Gimmick" (or a nicer word, "hook") sets you apart and makes your application memorable.</p>
<p>Good luck and have fun!</p>
<p>A "gimmick" in itself will not get you rejected. A badly executed one, however, will.</p>
<p>I actually did a song for my Why Chicago essay and got accpeted.</p>
<p>i don't think a song's gonna hurt you. just make sure your song sounds well-reasoned. buddy, you know you're treading a risky line. and the smallest of faults can spell rejection for you...</p>
<p>but i still assert that the format alone is not going to mean much. you can keep the song, but think more about the contents.</p>
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FEATS OF ENDURANCE A few students seem to think that the grandiose gesture will impress the admission staff. One student jetted in from Denmark to hand-deliver his paperwork. ("What's the point?" asks Reider. "Just put it in FedEx.") Another flew in his application himself, in a private plane. A few years ago, a high school student from Los Angeles biked up the Pacific Coast Highway to deliver his forms. The essay question that year asked applicants to attach a meaningful picture and write about it. The young man produced a snapshot of himself with his bike and wrote about the trip. His photo-op delivery to Montoya made the front page of the Daily. He was rejected.
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<p>I got it from the article that maybe he wrote an essay on it, but after reading it again, it seems he just wrote a note about the experience. and yea actually it is quite possible to write an essay about the trip before it happened.</p>
<p>If you want to be unique, do that in the 217 essay not the Why Penn</p>
<p>I agree with ^</p>
<p>Just a theory, but the guy who biked to Stanford may have had a better chance if he hadn't tried that stunt. I mean if he had been accepted, wouldn't that send a signal saying that sort of stuff will get you in?</p>
<p>yeah, that's a very good pointe merseyside</p>