<p>I attached an additional “commonapp” essay of sorts. It kind of explains an usual circumstance and what I’ve gained from it. </p>
<p>I spoke with several colleges and they didn’t seem to mind so I attached it. Even if they do mind, too late now :)</p>
<p>The Duke Admissions officer said that its better to have information in there that they can disregard, then not have information in there that they might have needed.</p>
<p>Although this is a Stanford thread, I feel like it applies.</p>
<p>I agree. We don’t know what they’ll do with the info, so you might as well attach it. They can look at it if they want.</p>
<p>Finally submitted everything! Yesssssss. I’ll have to submit my ACT later, though. T_T</p>
<p>Just submitted everything! Whew! Three months to go…</p>
<p>Holy crap. I thought it was four months. But you’re totally right. So I get my rejection a full month sooner! YESSSS.</p>
<p>I’m glad that my favorite game, Starcraft2 expansion pack ‘heart of the swarm’ is coming out on March 12th. That’s during spring break and it will really help me relaxed while waiting for pi day(MIT) to the first day of April (Chicago). I think all of my university decisions come out during that interval.</p>
<p>No, I’m not worried about putting “Wookie” as a language. They can see from the rest of my application that I’m pretty professional, but hey, they encouraged me to show personality and be myself, so I did. My app is littered with my crappy humor. I put Wookie as a language (Spoken and Spoken at Home), put ***********/r/aww as one of my favorite websites, and told my roommate I’d annihilate him at Call of Duty and to “Come at me, bro!” in my roommate essay. If I acted totally serious throughout the whole thing, nothing at all would set me apart, and I’d just look ridiculous compared to all of those national-award-winning genius applicants.
(Don’t think my whole app was just me trying to be humorous though; I’m smarter than that.)</p>
<p>That *********** was supposed to be reddit (dot) com/r/aww</p>
<p>I thought my app had a perfect mix of humor and seriousness.</p>
<p>After the app deadline passes, I’ll share what I put on some short answers, haha.</p>
<p>I feel my apps were overall serious because I focused on writing about social persecutions I faced and what I got out of them. But roommate essay definitely lightened the mood. I have no regret in my apps though. It’s a relief that I didn’t present myself as a merely academically serious Asian international applicant. In fact, I didn’t refer to academics at all in my application. Stanford’s took such a long time whereas I could apply to WUStL in one click from Commonapp</p>
<p>I hope that you at least referred to academics in the Academics portion of the Common App.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>I referenced some summer class I took in my intellectual vitality essay.</p>
<p>guize guize guize I decided at the eleventh hour that I actually will apply. lol. I’m writing the essays now.</p>
<p>^LOL OMG. You cray cray.</p>
<p>cambridge is calling pretty hard right now, but I figure things could look different in April so it can’t hurt to apply. 2 essays done, the third drafted. leggo.</p>
<p>ps: I effing hate applications</p>
<p>Gogogogogogogo!</p>
<p>P.S. I hate them too.</p>
<p>the commonapp is going slow as bbbbbaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllsssssssss</p>
<p>everything submitted though, woooooo! 3 hours before the deadline! I got the supplement/commonapp in by 1/1 EST, the payment says 1/2 cause the thing was so dang slow though. doesn’t matter, the deadline wasn’t til midnight PST anyway. :)</p>
<p>Good job!</p>
<p><em>virtual high five</em></p>
<p><em>high five!</em></p>
<p>i’m bored now.</p>
<p>I’ve been bored for three days now, haha.</p>
<p>I have to write why I’m interested in engineering tomorrow for cornell 
ugh</p>
<p>hey guys lets hit each others little scale/white puff things and give each other more green boxes</p>