Common App Essay: I chose the topic about overcoming a major event in life. I am the daughter of two uneducated Turkish immigrants who came to America in their 30s. My mom was a stay at home mom, and my dad worked as a handy man. When I was six, he passed away from a heart attack, and we were left with nothing. From his death, I found my passion for medicine because I did not want anybody to go through what I went through. (The essay–obviously–goes into a lot more detail but lemme tell you, being a poor immigrant’s kid is rough)
Tufts: 1) I ranted about how science, although AMAZING can be entirely false and tied it to how FREAKING AWESOME the fourth dimension is.
2) I talked about my culture in the context of a traditional Turkish breakfast.
I also wrote about overcoming the need to be overly competitive, which is rampant in today’s college admissions process. As the dumber child in a set of twins, I had to accept my weaknesses and embrace my strengths, regardless of how much better other people may be at certainty things
@marebear16 that reminds me of my Princeton essay, haha.
@schroscat and @anon9362 these essays are pretty awesome.
I felt like my essays for tufts were kind of lame. For one of them I talked about how one of my friends got a disease that only 1 in every 200,000 men receive, blindness but there is no treatment because the problem is in the optic nerve itself and how the research for it is very low but I want to pursue it and maybe come up with a cure or a treatment for it one day.
For the identity one I talked about my culture too briefly and the people I socialize with who helped me to strive for greatness, but it was not too specific which I quite regret now.
@schroscat my parents were educated in Egypt and had pretty good jobs but it was not enough. Unfortunately they did not get an education here to work with their degrees, so I can relate to poverty.
@marebear16 Aww, thank you! I hope my story overshadows my according to CC abysmal SATs. I’m sure your essays are great; since we’re coming down to the end, I’m sure we’re all freaking out about everything we sent in.
It sucks living in America when your parents have no resources, ahah.
Did anyone send in an arts supplement?
Haha oh yeah. Freaking out is a light word to how we are all feeling.
I’ve had a countdown on my phone since December. WooohooOOO!
What are the hardest majors to get into at Tufts?
@schroscat unfortunately no. I sent in my art supplements and a belly dancing video to Harvard because they had information about the slide room right on the common app. Tufts did not have it on the common app so I assumed they did not have it and I found it in their website the day after the deadline so I was pretty mad. How about you?
@marebear16 I sent in two flute supplements: both of my all-state solo auditions. At least, I send parts of the solo because I didn’t have my accompanist so the piece sounds a little off without the piano.
“Update! Admissions decisions for Regular Decision candidates will be released on Thursday, March 31st in the late afternoon!”
If “late afternoon” is 5 EST, I will defenestrate myself.
One of my closest friends hears from a few Ivies, NYU, AND Tufts at the same time
Which means they finished decisions yesterday, and are waiting two days for no other reason than because they feel like it
@aBitOfLuck I do too! Nyu, Tufts, and 5 ivies. 7 rejections in a day will suck lol
6 ivies and Tufts. Glorious.
I really don’t want to get rejected by Tufts and Brown on the same day, lol.
In response to the subject earlier: My CA essay was about learning to divorce myself from other people’s expectations, focusing on the time I cut off all my hair, and my identity essay was about being biracial and the stuff I internalized because of the way people treated my identity.