<p>I feel your pain thekristin. After sending my applications, I've really reflected upon how entirely awful my essays were. Oh well. At least we gave it our best at the time - and there doesn't need to be any regret in that regard. All we can do now is wait, and hope for the best.</p>
<p>hahaha, my commonapp essay was about Pokemon, but i think, in the midst of it all, i pulled off a decent essay.</p>
<p>Uh oh. I thought my essays were really good, but now I'm not so sure. I hope I am not the only one that genuinely thinks they are good...haha</p>
<p>^^^ me 2, I loved mine! I worked on them for a month and a 1/2</p>
<p>wait thats so funny, i wish my college essay was about pokemon</p>
<p>hahaha. i spent about a week and a half on the cornell supplement essay and a whopping 2 days on the commonapp essay!</p>
<p>things not to put.
forget to designate a college.</p>
<p>yeah i was looking at some stats link someone posted and there were a few hundred people who didn't designate a college and 0 of them got in for 2011 i believe. that would suck. a lot.</p>
<p>free money for cornell tho lol</p>
<p>i wish i could have asked people to read my essays....i just gave it to my counselor and she liked it so i didn't change anything</p>
<p>My common app essay is about elevators. yes, elevators. </p>
<p>I showed it to like...4 of my teachers, and about 10 of my classmates to make sure it wasnt TOO stupid..haha</p>
<p>i love my essays. Even though my original was on my laptop that i spilled vitamin water on and then i blowdried to dry off and then the keys melted so i called Dell and told them it "over heated" so they told me it was a safety hazard so i got a new one and that ended up deleting my essay. the end.</p>
<p>so i wrote a new one and my english teachers told me it was one of the best they had read which makes me think...EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. maybe losing my original essay was the greatest gift ever?</p>
<p>and i wrote mine about my favorite musician of all time and his influence on me...</p>
<p>and the man is...</p>
<p>jimmy buffett.</p>
<p>nice nice....</p>
<p>A few people I know are writing essays that are basically summaries of their lives...or a summary of their application. Sheesh...those non-CC people...</p>
<p>OMG! i was going to write about elevators! well, about the art of giving elevator pitches.</p>
<p>but i ended up writing about trig</p>
<p>o_O! REALLY?? damn it. So I guess it wasn't as unique as I thought it would be....Well, it was more about how a lot of things in my life connected to elevators. LIke....one example would be that I used to live in a Hotel in Vietnam when i was younger (sort of like Zac and Cody from Suite Life...), so my sister and I would ride up and down to talk to people all the time. =]</p>
<p>well...great minds think alike afchang...hahaaa :D</p>
<p>haha, i had so many great ideas for personal statements! since i didnt get to use them all, i gave them away, rofl.</p>
<p>one was on emoticons ( >.< , -<em>-, ^</em>^), one was on facebook groups, etc etc</p>
<p>great minds do think alike and great minds should be accepted =D</p>
<p>for common app, i wrote about moving from india to america at the age of 14....is that too cliched?
then i wrote my human ecology essay about my experiences that got me interested in neurological research and how the human ecology perspective could help my research....</p>