<p>this has got to be the least fun game in the history of the world. chin up, everyone, applying to all the words of my passive agressive little counselor:</p>
<p>"they would be crazy not to want you"
beat. spin of office chair.
"but some people are just crazy!"</p>
<p>"they would be crazy not to want you"
beat. spin of office chair.
"but some people are just crazy!"</p>
<p>Haha that's a great line.</p>
<p>hahaha ^^^ well my anti-hook would be that i'm actually a little too good looking you know what i mean? actually i'm just an asian kid and probably have the worst essays ever. oh right and my twin sister is applying SCEA too</p>
<p>my anti-hook would be my participation in debate being a turn-off, as it was my main EC and an essay topic. Maybe it will make me come off snooty or boring or something.
oh, and as someone else mentioned, too spread out in overall involvement, although i've been intensely involved in all of them</p>
<p>^^^ twin sister? wow, are you guys identical academic and EC-wise?</p>
<p>maybe the adcom won't be so cruel to take just one of you.</p>
<p>the thread...it's d-d-d-d-dying....help!</p>
<p>Reading over my essays, I realize how much they suck!!!</p>
<p>Has anyone else had this happen? I thought they were great when I wrote them, but looking at them again depresses me.</p>
<p>i looove my essays.</p>
<p>i like my essays (somewhat). But, then again, the adcom people do not have the same taste as I do so it's a matter of luck in a way.</p>
<p>Maverick, I think your essays are probably good but you're just nervous about the outcome so they seem bad now--I doubt they really are because the same thing happened to me.</p>
<p>My essays seem somewhat bland now that I read it again. I just realized that for my activity essay, I used the word "determination" 4 times, which is insane since the whole essay is just 250 words. Also, my dear roommate essay seems to lack a focus and my long essay is way too choppy. I don't know why I even wrote I what I wrote. lol.</p>
<p>i dont even wanna reread mine.</p>
<p>The early essays are all a little rough because it's due two months earlier than the RD ones. I had to revise my long one for other schools and it feels raw and cliched.</p>
<p>But then, we had an entire summer to work on it. Not that I actually wrote a word over summer. Ahem.</p>
<p>haha vu_preuss. what'd you do, huh?</p>
<p>my anti-hook: not outstanding. good scores, but no prestigious honors/summer programs. and i wrote my short answers in like 2 days. eep. it seems like most people write several drafts over several weeks. i was pretty happy with my essay, but i dunno...it's not typical so i'm kinda scared.</p>
<p>sirmomo: completely know what you mean. I wrote all my essays that last week; started/finished 2 short answers in 1 day. </p>
<p>Beyond that, I only submitted 2 recs, no awesome research, scattered interests, lots of qualified people with legacies/connections also applying SCEA from my school.</p>
<p>Do you go to crystal springs? ^^</p>
<p>haha i've already done my self-deprecating. and i've also deduced that my chances of acceptance are somewhere between nil and zip. so yeah.</p>
<p>I feel confident in my essays, recs, and ecs (had a live music audition), but I know my GPA is going to be a limiting factor. I have an upward trend, but having over 1/4 B's wont reflect too well on my persistence and academic focus.</p>
<p>mm nope, I go to a public school. But I live really, really close to Crystal Springs.</p>
<p>this thread is silly....stay positive guys.</p>
<p>I guess all the anti-hooks have been covered...</p>