<p>My favorite word entry was sphairistic! mua ha ha.</p>
<p>I'm just worried that they'll google it, in which case it'd lead to all my lovely posts here on CC, lol. XD</p>
<p>^^mabye our words will be so weird they will want to look them up and thus remember us</p>
<p>Possibly, lol.</p>
<p>I almost put sesquipedalian (my legit 2nd fave word) down as my favorite word, but that felt a bit snobbish.. and floccinaucinihilipilification, my legit favorite word, felt a bit lame.</p>
<p>Funny how I probably spent more time on the "favorites" section of the Princeton app so far than the rest of it. Whoops.</p>
<p>i want to put down the O.C. sound track- California, and I live in california,
but I don't want them to think that I'm not interested going to east coast</p>
<p>I put Life as my favorite word... is that too cliched?</p>
<p>haha this is hilarious. i doubt they care much about the favorites section. i can't imagine the admissions committee discussing someone's favorite word and analyzing what it implies about the applicant's character. but hey, what do i know?</p>
<p>I can just imagine it:
"This isn't a real word. REJECT!"
"Life isn't long enough. And 197 other people put it. DEFER!"
"This one is so good I had to look it up. ACCEPT!"</p>
<p>just be yourself. for favorite book i was going to put the highly intellectual but not exactly my favorite "franny and zooey" by j.d. salinger but my mom convinced me to put my real favorite book, "the perks of being a wallflower" instead. i got in! so no, you do not have to sound like an erudite snob for the admissions committee to like you for you.</p>
<p>Actually I would lean towards trying not to sound cliched or snobish. Sound yourself that's all there is to it. The admissions officers can see straight through the bull.</p>
<p>Hahaha jon...I laughed outloud at that. When the Princeton admissions officer came to my school, he told a story about a parent who called four times in the same day asking different questions about the Favorites section. He never really got through to an AO after the first time, but the secretary told the story. He asked if his daughter could send in a list of favorite books (numbering around...100) to show the BREADTH of her intellectual curiosity. For favorite website, he wanted to know if it was OK that his daughter didn't have one because she enjoyed studying and reading more than frivolity online. My favorite one, though, was when the dad asked if he could mail in a tape that he had made of his daughter talking about how much she loved Princeton for the "favorite recording" section.</p>
<p>Maybe the AO just made that up to loosen up our little session, but it was fairly hilarious. He told us that this section is just to make your application human. He says that there are a lot of people who try to be more sophisticated/intellectual than they probably are, and that there are a lot of people who are flat-out ridiculous with some of their favorites. It won't make or break you, but being overly-cliche or being wonderfull intriguing and honest could tip the scales (I suppose) if you're on the exact cusp. That's unlikely though, in itself.</p>
<p>hahaha that is hilarious, j07</p>
<p>Haha you should have seen the AO's face when he was telling it. Apparently parents call in with ridiculous questions ALLLLL the time. He said that last year after one kid was deferred ED his parents called and asked if he could come in and perform his monologue for the admissions officers (I guess they don't take videotapes of theatre performances) to show his supreme dedication to theatre. The admissions office politely declined, but lo and behold, the guy and his parents showed up one day with the guy in full (and completely awkwardly ridiculous) costume. </p>
<p>That's the end of my funny Princeton AO stories but wow, I laugh just thinking about them.</p>