<p>My son put a favorite quote by a favorite philosopher (at the time, that was his intended major). It was just an additional window to his personality that he hoped to convey to the admissions committee.</p>
<p>I heard one kid wrote "I really want to go to Rice" using his own blood... I guess that was a wrong answer because, according to the rumor, he was rejected. I may even have read that here on CC, who knows...</p>
<p>Hahaha, crazy people.</p>
<p>I taped a circuit board from one of my gameboy games and taped a little picture of the statue of liberty on one of the chips with it standing up like those things in a picture pop up book. I also put some light up thing on the empty space of the board along with coloring the remaining space of the box blue and pasting a little black bass figurine with a hook made out of a paper clip above it. </p>
<p>I think if it as a city with a lake next to it :D</p>
<p>I am an avid fan of Jeopardy so I set mine up as a Final Jeopardy question with the catagory being perspective students. I wrote a clue that had all these little factoids about me that were not in my application. Under the clue was "Who is efs001?" No wager though. :)</p>
<p>Einstein quote bashing American Imperialism; text with American flag schemed overlay over a vector black and white globe.</p>
<p>i cut it into thirds, took the top part off, attached it to the side of the bottom third. in the bottom, with 2/3 of the box, i put i picture of me right before a race with about 200+ kids, circled myself in it. with the other 1/3 of the box, i put and arrow and "me" to the circle and wrote, "competition appeals to me" my box turned into</p>
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<p>^^ looked like that in the end ^^ i hope they don't mind that i cut it up</p>
<p>Actually, I'm pretty sure that's grounds for rejection. They expect it to fit in the box, and you have not followed the directions. :p I'm kidding, it sounds cool.</p>
<p>pokemon card with my picture pasted on top of the pokemon.</p>
<p>way to freak me out deafeninghorn jk</p>
<p>I must say... the box was the most exciting part of my college application process. I made an envelope out of construction paper, then attached a favorite quote to the inside and bound it shut with a twig. I attached a calligraphy-like design of my initials on the outside. In the end, it was sort of Hobbit-ish but I was pleased. </p>
<p>Did anyone else go to the visitor's weekend back in October? I went with my family and we were very impressed.</p>
<p>I went to the October open-campus day. I had been to Rice before but my parents hadn't, and they fell in love with the campus. My dad wasn't convinced that Rice was a good school and he wanted me to go to Harvard, but after open-campus day he ended up letting me do early decision :)</p>
<p>And your box was very creative, that's an awesome idea.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>