<p>This is brought forward to its own post from the [post=342175]post on intl princeton RD roster[/post] thread.</p>
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<p>well, i cheated and submitted extra essays - i'm a good writer, so if they aren't immediately turned off by the fact that i broke the rules, which could be the case, then the essays should help me. i didn't send them as "supplementary" things, i sent them in with the rest of my application, so the admissions people can take them or leave them as they like. i'm hoping that my real essays will give them incentive enough to make them pay attention to the others, because in all modesty, they're good. </p>
<p>my first (real) essay was about a play that i've written and which i'm going to be directing at my school soon. the second was about my new-found (but not fleeting) interests in philosophy and politics, and a cool experience i had which helped turn me towards them. </p>
<p>my cheat essays were both short, so i labelled them as "mini-essays" and put them together as a set. however, they are entirely different from one another, and were never meant to be a "set" of any kind. one of them talked about my fondness for walking through the city and a park in the middle of it. the other one was about the time i started singing (and dancing) "Singin' in the Rain" out on a street during a downpour - i'm a decent singer, so that wasn't something to make people cringe. </p>
<p>for princeton i had to write a short mini-essay about what i would do if i were given a year to do anything i wanted to do. i said i would spend it travelling and writing. for me, that would be an amazing year.</p>
<p>Every time I see my essays, I feel like ripping them apart.</p>
<p>^I concur.</p>
<p>My essays were mostly based around either Newfoundland, islands, or the sea...I definitely played up the obscure, rural image too much. I got an interview in Feb for the University of Toronto national scholarship, and for that app I wrote an essay on "fog" (with some sick mathematical twist), so I decided it would be a good bet to keep using the same ideas.</p>
<p>my 500 worder was on my multicultural experiences, how my meeting with the dalai lama changed my perspective, and how I made my school more accepting of other cultures. <-- that was made by my involvment in the accreditation process, and the results of a major research paper.</p>
<p>it was okay, but i just hope it showed something about me. its so-so</p>
<p>my other ones were pretty decent, nothing stellar tho. the one on how i would spend a year was pretty tight...some nice quotes, some interesting things.</p>
<p>I wrote an optional one talking about the difficulties I faced in my 3 transitions in 3 yrs in H.S, and how i initiated new clubs</p>
<p>the best essay/most important one was about the greatest satisfaction I achieved...It was on my charitable stock broking company that i started, that gives its revenue for N. Korean refugees, and has so far 60,000 dollars investment. that might be the one that might get me into princeton :p</p>
<p>my long one was about the olympiads. i fought a lot to get my honors and thought that it would be suitable to write about it.</p>
<p>i also had a supplementary essay, that was on languages in my country. most of people here have 2 native languages and wrote about how they mix em'.</p>
<p>mine was abt my experiences with chess and what they have taught me !!</p>
<p>my 500 word essay was about my failures and how it has made me who I am</p>
<p>Mine about my Mother and my chinese education</p>
<p>My common app essay was about the <em>positive</em> impact the divorce of my parents and my family going from upper-middle class to poverty had on me. I know that might sound weird, and I know that many adcoms will find it a little weird, but I hope that some people will understand I tried to be truthful to myself.</p>
<p>mine was very personal and how a death made me what im today.
a l;ot of people liked it!!!</p>
<p>is it good to write about personal things involving emotions and such, or would that sound to corny and made up even if it isnt?</p>
<p>it is good to write abt personal things,but show how uve learnt from them</p>
<p>My main essay was abt some profound moments in the chemistry class(basically,writing abt my community using metallurgy as a metaphor) and short essays on different actvities and experiences</p>
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<p>That's a common enough experience with a lot of people. The adcoms won't have a problem understanding that</p>
<p>mine about my blasted "friend" who killed my reputation.</p>
<p>my common app essay was about my year-long exchange student experience in NY, U.S. and how it changed me in bagillion ways..</p>
<p>Mine was quite out of the tune. I didn't write about what changed me or things like that. I used tons of metaphors to tell the admission committee Who I am and Who I am not. A lot of people liked it but there were few who hated it like anything. "It was something worth a risk"
I sent my published newspaper articles as my supplementary written pieces. As I worked for the National English Daily, I couldn't help myself from not sending them.</p>
<p>My essay was about my love affair with the English language. And I couldn't resist sprinkling a few puns in.</p>