<p>How did you guys approach the supplement essay for the Cornell app? What topic did you write about?</p>
<p>You mean the college-specific essay?</p>
<p>I wrote about CAS and English -- didn't get too creative, but added in some nice figurative bits. I basically wrote about how I've always loved to write, and something cheesy about how writing is influenced by all of the academic disciplines, that's why Cornell's great overall liberal arts program is perfect for me, blah blah. Apparently it was good enough, though, because it got me in :)</p>
<p>I mentioned Cornell in only one sentence of my supplement and it was very generic. I wrote the one for CAS and how ive always been around government and why i like it thats about it.</p>
<p>lol in my CAS essay I wrote about how I loved physics and engineering.. but really I never have had that much to do with physics really (besides reading textbooks, taking contests, and writing an in-a-way lame physics essay) Yeah so I think my essay was pretty generic, and I Totally forgot about "how cornell will help me" part ><. but Phew.. I still got in. XD</p>
<p>I wrote in my CAS essay about when I did a cadaver lab at EVMS and it changed my life... although it was a bit morbid...</p>
<p>I just hope its original enough.</p>
<p>I'm a tennis fan so I compared the evolution of my intellectual interests with the evolution of Andy Roddick's tennis game over the past year. I also mentioned how I like the research facilities like the Microkelvin laboratory. I know it's sort of weird topic, but I got in and my English teacher liked it.</p>
<p>I just talked about my love for engineering, a research project i find interesting (havn't done it), and why cornell would be a good match.</p>
<p>I talked about my involvement with Robot Ramble (a Science Olympiad event), and how I approached it from an engineering standpoint.</p>
<p>I talked about how I'm intrigued by chaos and order, and how that interest made academics and other stuff fascinating to me. </p>
<p>I just brainstormed one night when I couldn't sleep.</p>
<p>In my CAS essay I spoke about opportunity and how my father couldn't get financial aid to attend medical school at Johns Hopkins cause he wasn't a citizen and how his fall serves an endeavor which makes me want to suceed even more on my way to becoming an Internist. I said how i'm not doing this merely to just finish what he couldn't but that I am going to persevere even harder when adversity approaches and utilize the opportunities presented to me which were not presented to him.</p>
<p>Pardon my grammatical errors and punctuality flaws i was rushing</p>
<p>Good luck on your essays every1</p>
<p>Any 1 need some help pm me i would be glad to help you and send it back to u early Happy New Years!</p>
<p>Can anyone give me some extra info on Cornell's biology department? I plan to major in Biology and I haven't visited the campus so I haven't got any specific Cornell enlightening moments.</p>
<p>Sucks when you live 10,000 miles away from the U.S. and all your why us essays end up with "I have always PERCEIVED University X to be..."</p>
<p>I talked about my love for the sciences, threw in some specific programs I liked, and yeah...</p>