<p>Now that the app deadline has passed...let's see what everyone put for this short take :).</p>
<p>5) If you were choosing students to form a Yale class, what question would you ask here that we have not?</p>
<p>I put: Many times in the past, seemingly unimportant events have ended up changing the course of history. Tell us how taking a bite into an apple could change the course of history.</p>
<p>What'd you guys put?</p>
<p>What is your opportunity cost of attending Yale?</p>
<p>Those questions you guys wrote remind me of UChicago- or Brown-type questions! XD </p>
<p>Mine wasn’t as creative but I think reflects my personality/interests and fits in with the rest of my app, so I hope it’s okay: What work of fiction has most deeply touched you and why?</p>
<p>@motion: Answering that in twenty five words would be challenging, to be sure.</p>
<p>I put some generic question.</p>
<p>I was tempted to put, “Are you applying to Harvard?”</p>
<p>Mine is hilariously awful: </p>
<p>We often talk of changing society, and so forget to appreciate its positive aspects. What do you love about the world today and why?</p>
<p>In my defense, in the answer to the previous question I basically said that I was cynical about everything, so I felt the need for something saccharine to balance it.</p>
<p>“You have 48 hours until the deadline of a research paper, which you had been assigned two weeks ago but did not start due to excruciating circumstances. What do you do?”</p>
<p>@Microdog - That’d be so funny hehehehe</p>
<p>I put:</p>
<p>“What is one thing you would do if you knew others could not judge you for it?”</p>
<p>@yoda: Excruciating circumstances? I didn’t know Yale was torture.</p>
<p>Mine: How would you like to be eulogized?</p>
<p>With all its comic intent, “Are you applying to Harvard?” would actually entertain the admissions officers and might end up working for you…</p>
<p>Mine’s pretty generic. ‘There are over 1.2 billion teenagers in this world. Give us a quirky fact about you that sets you apart from this crowd.’</p>
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OMG lol i assume your ■■■■■■■■. that’s liek a slap in the face to yale! haha</p>
<p>What about you would make you less attractive to Yale?</p>
<p>“Tell me what makes this class for you.”</p>
<p>Actually I just put something like “What’s your biggest dream” or something LOL</p>
<p>Tristan, I love yours.</p>
<p>I put “What is your dream Scrabble word?” I had it as “Who are your heroes?” for a while, but I thought that was too generic.</p>
<p>“Are you applying to Harvard?” ------hahahahahhaha that is so risky and wrong</p>
<p>“What is your opportunity cost of going to Yale?” I think this is a great question. I mean, there are opportunity costs… Yale would not be offended.</p>
<p>Yoda - it’s funny you asked that, because last year, I had to write a research paper at midnight the night before it was due. It was for high school, though, so not long, but still a lot.</p>
<p>“If you could solve or answer any one problem or question in the world, historical or modern, what would it be?”</p>