<p>i enjoyed the ap score for your act score a lot</p>
<p>You could probably list yourself as having a 2500 SAT, 900s on SAT IIs, 40 on ACT, 7s on APs and 10s on IBs and just write a side-note that while your score reports may say otherwise, this is what you DESERVED.</p>
<p>^^
HAHAHAHA
I laughed for like 5 minutes on that one j07.</p>
<p>Very clever, just forget me.</p>
<p>And iceiraire's is excellent, too</p>
<p>How about this:</p>
<p>"Harvard has been my dream since the age of two. My parents told me, at this malleable age, that admission to Harvard is the sole measurement of success in a child. From that point forward, my every action, my every thought, is undertaken with the goal of aiding my admission prospects; everything else is irrelevant and a waste of my energy..."</p>
<p>Next Essay:</p>
<p>"The person who impacted me the most has been, undoubtedly, my private college admissions counselor. Without her, I would never know which extracurriculars in which to participate that look best on college applications. The $35,000 cost is, in my opinion, a low material price to pay for such spiritual and mental benefits..."</p>
<p>An essay on how the successful business you started in your basement selling herbs and pharmaceuticals has taught you about the value of hard work.</p>
<p>...and thats why I want to go to THE PRINCETON.</p>
<p>mike: CLASSIC</p>
<p>"because the dean's wife is hot"</p>
<p>Haha Mike...that was great</p>
<p>"The worst thing? A passionate essay about how the Jews, Mexicans, Poles, Lithuanians, Nigerians, and Irish are ruining America, except that they all make good gardeners, cooks and janitors. That should do it..."</p>
<p>I heard that someone wrote an antisemitic essay...and the person who read it was Jewish.</p>
<p>I think the worst thing you could do is fail to proof-read your essays such that you submit an essay that says that "your lifelong dream is go to to Yale..."</p>
<p>Sakky- that joke's been made like six times on this thread, not to mention everywhere else... But yeah.</p>
<p>"I am wicked conservative..."</p>
<p>"I'm not a plagiarist"</p>
<p>"The worst thing? A passionate essay about how the Jews, Mexicans, Poles, Lithuanians, Nigerians, and Irish are ruining America, except that they all make good gardeners, cooks and janitors. That should do it..."</p>
<p>Just curious. How do Nigerians fit into this?(Besides the obvious fact that they're all immigrants).</p>
<p>This doesn't really have to do with admissions essays, but I thought I'd share. My ap lit teacher told our class the other day about an experience he had in college. He wanted to stay up as late as possible one night to study, since he had a huge essay final the next morning. So, he (unknowingly) took some "pills", aka speed. The next morning, he wrote his essay and felt good about it. However, he ended up receiving an "F". It turns out, he had written 5 pages of just his name over and over again. Needless to say, his teacher was not amused.</p>
<p>Hehe, people actually do send essays with teh wrong school in there sometimes.</p>
<p>I went to a thing at UNC-CH (it's one of my safeties) where they told us that last year they got 36 applications whose essays contained the statement "I always wanted to be a Blue Devil because..." (Blue Devils are Duke, for all you who didn't know)</p>
<p>For your essay:</p>
<p>"I am a nihilist. I loathe writing."</p>
<p>"My name is Jeff, John, and Frank..."</p>