<p>... and where the applicant was accepted ...</p>
<p>I read on the Wellesley site that one student wrote about a godzilla action figure. I also read about a kid who wrote about his daily ride to school on the bus ... an ivy adcom liked it.</p>
<p>My DD loves these stories ... "lets have a little fun here!"</p>
<p>(<em>Tell us</em>)</p>
<p>This should probably go in the College Essays section. I wrote about my desk and got into Swarthmore, the University of Chicago, Reed, and several other schools.</p>
<p>Ok thanks... where is the college essay section? I am sure it is probably obvious ;)</p>
<p>Go to College Discussion and there's a tab for 'College Essays.'</p>
<p>My cousin wrote about Zelda.
Another about PacMan.
1 to Yale, 1 to...Duke? (not sure about 2nd one not that close.)
Not a bad result.</p>
<p>Both were genuinely interested in video games (hence myself...the genes passed on), and tied it nicely to their lessons/personalities and etc. While video games are generally frowned upon and have a negative connotation, I'd say it stood out. I never read the 2nd one so I wouldn't know, but the 1st one was excellent...</p>
<p>A Berkeley student wrote about his love of hamburgers.</p>
<p>I didn't actually write something that was incredibly creative for my app. The most random one I think was me writing about my love of furry mascots (the kind you see at sports games/amusement parts) and how I actively sought out mascotting jobs as I got older just because I think mascots are so awesome (essay for Caltech).</p>
<p>For Rice's "put a picture of something you like" though, I sent in the most random thing ever.</p>
<p>Not exact pic, but the same character (Keroro in Japanese cartoons).</p>
<p>A friend of mine wrote her essay for Harvard in semi-stream of conscious mode (like Ulysses) and started her 26 paragraphs with each letter of the alphabet. When I read it, I thought she must be the most brilliant writer ever, or the most stupid college applicant ever. </p>
<p>She got in.</p>
<p>I wrote about cutting my hair, and got into HYPS, Berkeley, UCLA, and a few others. :p</p>
<p>Woah, how many pages does your essay have to be(if she wrote 26 paragraphs!)?</p>
<p>Stream of consciousness = no defined rules of writing. </p>
<p>Thus, they're not formal paragraphs at all. Some had only one sentence.</p>
<p>It was around 1000 to 1300 words, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>For my college essay, I'm actually thinking about writing how Oprah Winfrey's puppy mill show inspired me to start volunteering in an animal shelter. Hahaha. I'm still not sure though...</p>
<p>Go for it. I was thinking of writing about how I always wanted to be a superhero and connecting it to wanting to help people haha</p>
<p>I read a Tufts essay about how a girl went to the library and peed. </p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>Wow. Yeah just....wow.</p>
<p>I officially love this thread. Lmao!</p>
<p>Wrote about movies, got into 3 ivies and Stanford, plus others.</p>
<p>I am talking about mountain unicycling in one of my essays.</p>
<p>That is an amazing sport ... there is a fellow near Stanford who occasional rides on our weekend trail ... 1200 foot gain in about 2 miles ... the descent is amazing to watch. Bravo ... great topic.</p>
<p>when asked what piece of art i liked for ga tech's honors application, i wrote abt a how i liked a song that's classified in the "metal rock" section, i got in haha. i did it as a joke :)</p>
<p>I want to write an essay about the brick wall behind my house. It used to look out on an empty lot, and it was beautiful at sunset, and then there was a construction crew there, and the machines were beautifully at sunset, and then there were apartments there, and I couldn't see the sunset.</p>
