<p>Though I obviously haven't read all of the books in the Core in my high school years, I have read a few, and these happen to be the novels and/or texts that most strongly resonated with me (Marx, Darwin, Woolf, etc).</p>
<p>In the Columbia app they ask you to talk about a book you found meaningful and a course you enjoyed... if I say only things on the Core will that sound bad-- like I have already done a lot of the curriculum or like I just looked on the site and wrote about what was actually in the Core?</p>