<p>I complete BSed my MIT essay, it was about remote control cars and my dad beating me and how it caught on fire :) Waitlisted.</p>
<p>My "why" essay was about working at Walmart over the summer -- Michael Vick -- Mccain + Obama + Hillary + a couple of other things all rolled into one.</p>
<p>I wrote about how my job at a local fruit market sparked my interest in international culture and economic disparity in the urban environment (based on the customers that frequented the store).</p>
<p>I was accepted into Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Vassar, Wesleyan, Fordham, Barnard, and Lafayette.</p>
<p>um... my penn/chicago essay was about searching for ice cream with my friend</p>
<p>i got into both</p>
<p>i looooooooove ice cream</p>
<p>Be careful with a quirky topic...at the Amherst info session today, the adcom warned that one year she read a dozen essays about toilets. She said the idea must have been in some essay book and Amherst rejected all of those applicants as just weird.</p>
<p>Some of these replies aren't fun/quirky topics at all (want2bIvy's, for example).... </p>
<p>I wrote about the 1812 Overture, which was pretty gutsy of me considering that I know jack-**** about classical music (and I later realized that I'd made a typo!), and I got into 4/5 schools I applied to. My boyfriend wrote about Ferris Bueller's Day Off and got into Brown ED. :)</p>
<p>I wrote about toothpaste....yep :D
Got into Berkeley, Duke, waitlisted at Hopkins, Columbia.</p>
<p>Good times!</p>
<p>Wrote about The Manchurian Candidate (the Frankenheimer one, not crappy new one with Denzel).</p>
<p>I wrote about getting drunk (as an extended metaphor) and eventually got into Columbia</p>
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<p>Nah it's not so quirky, but actually sounds like a really interesting job that would make for an interesting essay. I mean, how many harvard applicants (who got in..) have worked in a fruit market before?</p>
<p>I bet lots of UChicago and MIT applicants write about quirky topics. For those schools, the quirkier the better. It's practically a requirement.</p>
<p>I wrote about the love of my life: stilettos :-D</p>
<p>Got into USC, NYU, Emory, waitlisted at WashU</p>
<p>S wrote about what lurks under his bed...</p>
<p>^ BOO! Haha</p>
<p>Keep these up...very fun to read</p>
<p>amb3r, I disagree with you that the topic has to be quirky. Certainly some people will respond quirkily, but my response to a quirky topic was pretty vanilla (by some standards) and pretty unsettling (by others).</p>
<p>I wrote about being picked last in gym...it got me into some pretty good schools, lol. Although that led to an interesting conversation during my Brown interview, lol.</p>
<p>I wrote a short story about Thor working as a librarian and the havoc that ensues. Ironically, I got into UVA, William and Mary, Oberlin, St. Olaf, and Rochester, but NOT Tufts (the school for which I originally wrote it).</p>
<p>i wrote an essay about cooking, an essay about getting the lyrics to songs wrong, another about stand up comedy and how i suck it at it, one about the beatles and one about tripping over a headstone on my grandfather's farm. got into yale, swarthmore, notre dame, amherst, tufts, williams, wesleyan, wellesley, ect</p>
<p>i'm thinking about writing one about combing my hair one day the opposite way and how i've kept it that way ever since. what do you think?</p>
<p>I wrote about the relationship between Tom and Jerry in comparison to relationships between differing nations in conflict. I'm an IR major so I connected the Tom and Jerry metaphor to the foreign relations between many countries at odds (and I wrote a paragraph on my dreams of helping resolve these international tensions, etc).</p>
<p>The Tom and Jerry essay was a hit with Chang Rae Lee (Creative Writing Director and Professor at Princeton) who was the hired "writer in residency" at my highschool for my senior year. He loved my essay.</p>
<p>Accepted: JHU, SCU, USC, Tufts, U of Chicago, Rochester, AU, BU
Waitlisted: UPenn (I asked not to remain on waitlist)
Rejected: Columbia</p>
<p>I wrote with humor about how horrible i am at march past and how i had to do it at the sports day as the captain of my house.<br>
got in at Emory, BU , Brandeis, Boston college etc
rejected at Amherst, Yale , Cornell etc</p>