<p>Stanford admissions come out in less than a week, and I am going nuts. I had a dream about how I received an acceptance letter, but it was not for me, some girl who got a full scholarship for lacrosse. That was scary.</p>
<p>Anyway, so what was your essay about? As you can see, I am bored to death, and you know you are too!</p>
<p>LONG ESSAY: Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia
SHORT ESSAY 1: how working at a gift shop helped bring my family back, and honed my social skills
SHORT ESSAY 2: why my current college sucks 1) homogenous population 2) lots of hard-core partyers 3) small science major 4) no Arabic in current curriculum
SHORT ESSAY 3: Intellectually exciting topic-- I wrote about the pro-matriarichal society messages concealed in media such as children's books and movies.</p>
<p>SMU:
Essay: The story of me going from store to store buying xbox 360s and selling them on ebay and how it related to my love for business and investing
Word that describes me #1: logical
Word that describes me #2: analytical</p>
<p>BU:
Essay #1: same as SMU
Essay #2: how being left-handed has helped me adapt to situations
Short Essay: i talked about how moving to new england would help broaden (sp?) my horizons or some **** like that.</p>
<p>UC Essays:
1st essay: about why i want to major in math/econ, talked about working and how math helped me get a good job at 18 .. stuf like that
2nd essay: focus diversity, talked about immigrating from russia , then going back, and about my mom
3rd essay: talked about my moms cancer, having to work to support family, and then finally having chance to focum on school.</p>
<p>for each school i wrote different essays but most had common topics:
-my college experience , why i chose my major, why wanted to transfer(job, russian education, social differences, educational limits, etc)all pretty entertaining
-personal essays:how composing music hashelped me to find my own identity, basically talked about a thing that drives me.
-short essays: books(Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Uzbek tales), aerobatics, music</p>
<p>I had a central theme with my Stanford essays: "Life is study!", which is one of my personal quotes.</p>
<p>Short Essay 1: [Memorable Exp] Described how I taught alcohol use to the 6th grade students I taught by turning them into ninjas with drunk goggles.
Short Essay 2: [Intellectual] Described the meaning of "Life is study"
Short Essay 3: [Why Stanford] Talked about how working at the Stanford Medical Center felt like home; the people I worked with were real-life examples of my quote.
Long Essay: [Accomplishment] Discussed how the quote "Life is study" came to be (It came from a Japanese animated series), how it influenced my life and eventually enabled me to work at places like NASA and Stanford Med. Used the main character of the series as a parallel to my own accomplishments.</p>
<p>Stanford:
Short Essay 1: I talked about running my Philosophy Club.
Short Essay 2: Discussed the universal implications of evolutionary theory and how it made me realize the normative role of the concept of God.
Short Essay 3: Talked about Stanford's Phil department, The Dualist, why I hate my school, and why I hate my school.
Long Essay: Gave a synopsis of the book/research project that I did on the link between the international narcotics trade and substances on college campuses.</p>
<p>I'm not counting on Stanford at all, though. They seem to be very stringent on having their applicants meet flawless academic records with test scores and gpa, etc. I'm more of an independent learning type.</p>
<p>Harvard:
Why Harvard essay: just discussed the academic, extracurricular reasons for why Harvard suited me in comparison to my current school. Also discussed how the "ZooMass" culture was not me, and I would fit in much better in a more academically rigorous environment. About a page and half, single spaced.
Personal essay: wrote about growing up in poverty with my father who was a chronic drug user and alcoholic. I think it was about a page and half to a page and three quarters, single spaced.
Some of those short answer questions: I wrote about Darwin's Dangerous Idea for my book, discussed what curriculum/courses I would pursue at Harvard, etc.</p>
<p>It is really confusing when writing essays because you want it to be from your heart, but at the same time it has to interest the admissions officer, so this time I thought I would write something that genuinely interested me. My essay last year was about Picasso's Dora Marr and how the painting's fragmented nature was like me because of identities as a Muslim, American, and Indian--it didn't really work because I got waitlisted at JHU and Washington University at St. Louis.</p>
<p>Hiroki and Janel89: you guys seem to have really good essays. Well, we have only a few more days to go before decisions come out!</p>
<p>Long Essay: My difficult transition from Special Ed. to the Mainstream Regular program in High School and how it has prepared me for college.</p>
<p>Short Essay 1: How I created a youth task force to reduce crime in their neighborhood.</p>
<p>Short Essay 2: How I spent one year experimenting the social behavior among dogs in a controlled setting.</p>
<p>Short Essay 3: Why I want to leave my present school: It no longer provided me with a challenging academic program. Restricted my academic opportunities to take Honors Classes. Why Stanford: It provides the opposite of what my school offers. Also, they have a very good Sociology Dept. and provide a program track in the area of Economic Sociology that I want to major in. </p>
<p>Other than that, there is nothing else that would make me standout because the opportunity for me to do that is non-existant at my school.</p>
<p>Long Essay: To ****ty to remember
Short Essay 1: To hastily written to remember
Short Essay 2: To uneventful to remember
Short Essay 3:<br>
Why Stanford: Either this part was not in the application or I am seriously screwed; I do not remember writing a "why stanford" essay.</p>
<p>Basically I was training for XC season by Running in one of the sports complexes in Iran, while wearing all of the traditional Muslim Garb, and these guys started hitting on me. I flipped my **** and a police officer was not happy that I, a woman, was yelling at a bunch of boys. What a debacle.</p>
<p>took my MIT essay about how lame my town was and removed all references to said school. Stuck something in about NYC and shipped it off. Really a poor attempt, in 20/20 hindsight.
EDIT: Accepted Columbia College, btw.</p>
<p>my main essay was about how I had the chance to meet up with my babysitter from when I was little girl (she was an older woman) and how I had forgotten what she had taught me... mainly to dream big and how I saw college as a let down... I also mentioned how growing up her daughter was my best friend despite our socioeconomic differences and how she did not have the chance to do what she had hoped... it was the realization that not everyone gets a to go to a top schoo let alone college...</p>
<p>my first short essay was about joinging the equestrian team and its application into the real world... </p>
<p>my second one just discussed the provinciality of the school and I tried to not sound bitter or say anything negative... I thought that was the most important thing...</p>
<p>shanntotheont: I am not really sure what the heck they want us to write when writing about why we want to transfer. Saying that, I think I sounded a bit negative on why I wanted to transfer--I actually used the term "hardcore partiers" in my essay. At least I didn't use bastards who smoke at every door LOL. Well, seems like you had really essay--the first one seems like a lifetime movie, so good topic!</p>