<p>Thanks for your congrats guys :)</p>
<p>Yeah, I had a 3.3 at WM, and no, I am not a legacy or major donor. I am a white male, as well. (I'm not offended, it's a crucial thing to know these days)</p>
<p>I keep thinking it might be because I wrote a lot about my major - my current school has a very small linguistics program and I wanted to improve that by going to a school with a better program. That's pretty much all I focused on.</p>
<p>btw my other application essay was about Q-Tips...</p>
<p>looks like essays with stupid topics really work cuz mine was about women boobs and I got in as well.</p>
<p>wow-i wish i did that-maybe they would've at least had the decency to tell me i was rejected by now instead of dragging out my hopes until the 1st of june...</p>
<p>are you joking RejectedFromMIT? And if you're not, please, elaborate on what exactly your essay was about.</p>
<p>lol rejected from mit....</p>
<p>hey guys! just wanted to say hang in there, it's almost over, no matter what happens. RejectedFromMIT, you should totally post your essay (read it on facebook--it's AWESOME). My essay was about Ferdinand Magellan (among other things) :D.</p>
<p>Hope you're all doing ok...less than 72 hours until you'll KNOW.</p>
<p>q-tips? womens boobs?</p>
<p>loool I'm not jokin u can check my essay its posted it on facebook</p>
<p>that essay didn't get me in to MIT though, but I always heard weird stories about people who got in to MIT or Harvard with essays about topics u cant imagine like toilet paper, underwears, being gay etc.</p>
<p>lol send me your name so i can add you. It would be cool if you guys(everyone in this thread) could send me your names so i can add you to my facebook account.</p>
<p>what i find amazing is how you guys managed to write "Why Penn?'' essays that focused on q-tips and boobs. This gotta see.</p>
<p>the q-tip one wasn't the "Why Penn?" essay... it was the question that said "Please submit page xx of your autobiography" or however it was phrased.</p>
<p>haha, that would take a lot of skill to connect q-tips with why one would want to study at penn...</p>
<p>Oh there's an autobiography essay?... i'll have to check out the application again.....</p>
<p>yeah that's a very Penn essay prompt.</p>
<p>the "boobs" essay was extremely well-written with an amazing hook.</p>
<p>great job.</p>
<p>Thanks, lol I wrote this essay a year ago and it's only now when I started getting complements on it...</p>
<p>At least something good happened to me in the end</p>
<p>edited............................</p>
<p>dude that was a great essay. Which essay request did you respond to?</p>
<p>Here is my "famous" boobs essay:</p>
<pre><code> Why Do Women Have "Boobs"?
</code></pre>
<p>One day as I was studying in the library, I noticed a magazine that a fellow student had carelessly strewn across the table. On its cover, a woman with large breasts poorly concealed by her string bikini posed promiscuously. Instantly distracted from my textbook, I wondered to myself why women's bodies develop large breasts in the first place. Yet unlike most hormonally-driven teenage males who would continue to glare idly at the image, I leapt out of my chair in search of biology textbooks that would explain this magnificent phenomenon.</p>
<p>Un-phased by the sensitive nature of the topic, I found myself wanting to get past the societal taboos surrounding human anatomy in order to track down a biological explanation. Yes, women's breasts produce milk and men's breasts do not. But why and how does this happen? How does a female body know when and where to grow curves, even as my body does just the opposite? Although my friends often chuckle when I voice these random curiosities, I always return to my textbooks in search of the answers.</p>
<p>In this case, I was astounded by the answers that I discovered. Female breasts, I learned, start developing even before birth, when a female chromosome kicks in and female characteristics begin to develop. By the time a female baby emerges from the womb, her entire milk-duct system has already been formed! Then, at puberty, her reproductive organs will begin to secrete a fat that accumulates in her upper body, causing her breasts to develop and enlarge. The intricacy of this process intrigued me as I reaffirmed that the most mundane questions about life around me often have extraordinary scientific answers. As I bask in my newfound knowledge, I wonder why so few people are interested in probing into the mysteries of the world around them, leaving geniuses and masterminds like Isaac Newton to discover principles like gravity. The courage to ask stupid questions is sometimes the precondition for progress, so I plan to approach my own scientific career with methodologies that embrace fearless, far-ranging inquiry.</p>
<p>Further, I am eager to defy the normative boundaries between disciplines in pursuing an education that nurtures my curiosity for a variety of topics. In today's increasingly globalized and technologically advanced landscape, it is now more crucial than ever that scientists pursue multidisciplinary approaches that incorporate the most cutting-edge advances in both the scientific and technological communities. Through the exceptional education I will receive at UPenn as a Computer Science & Computational Biology major, I look forward to becoming a key player in resolving some of the many problems that only a multidisciplinary approach can tackle. Regardless of how far science reaches, life is still full of mysteries to be revealed. I am confident that UPenn will challenge me to delve into them, one by one, while polishing me into a renowned scientist who will leave a lasting legacy of scholarship and service long after my graduation.</p>
<p>I hope you all liked it...</p>
<p>I think it was a response for one of the optional essays or the "Why Penn?" essay I don't really remember...</p>