<p>Oh sry viva, I must have misunderstood you. </p>
<p>Wow demeter, how did yout get the Core, NYC, the campus and your own personality into 350 characters? It's barely a paragraph. Btw, did you get in?</p>
<p>In my essay I wrote about how having fried chicken stores on 125th street and cocaine dealers in Spanish Harlem was such a great deal that I couldn't turn it down -- even if I got a full ride at Harvard !</p>
<p>yeah i totally know what you mean. who wouldn't want to be able to grab a quick bite of friend chicken after shooting up? honestly, that sort of convenience is incomparable.</p>
<p>lol... Did u really include the cocain dealer part? How did u spin that fact? I was thinking about writing about sushi bars, but then I figured... wait a sec... I can eat sushi in Boston, too, so that's not really Columbia specific. Honestly, its extremely hard to write a good and non-generic Columbia essay, if not impossible</p>
<p>i was just going to write about how i fell in love with their campus before actually looking up their school. but seriously, the architecture of low library is AWESOME! </p>
<p>anyhoo, yea i know it's REALLY hard to write about something good at CU that no one else has thought of.</p>
<p>i'll take a look if you still want, pm it</p>
<p>Didn't this kid say he's interested in linguistics? I'm pretty sure Columbia does not offer a Linguistics major and only has a few basic courses on the subject. I go to Columbia and can not imagine a better school for me, but why on Earth would you go to a school that does not offer a major in the subject you're interested in?</p>
<p>Well, I didn't talk specifically about NYC, but I talked about the campus in relation to the city. And then I talked about the Core and how I saw it as an opportunity for students of different disciplines to come together. Then I tied it all together and had a sentence about that being my kind of environment.</p>
<p>Yes, I did get in.</p>
<p>I wrote fairly generically about the core curriculum and NYC to be honest. I put sort of an international spin on it since I speak Spanish and French and I was born in Hong Kong yet I'm Hispanic. I dunno. I think it's very difficult to fit something truly unique in those lines.</p>
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i enjoyed this. although, spanish harlem is on the other side of the island - it's in the east 100s and 110s, mostly west of lex ave. we're just in good old fashioned harlem. so eat yer grits!</p>
<p>I so agree with viva, it's incredibly hard. But at least, the ppl who actually got in wrote generic ones as well, that kinda calmes my nerves, at leat a bit, ^^.</p>