<p>So cool.</p>
<p>What are you guys planning on doing in college?</p>
<p>My main essay was about a friend who cyberbullied me and how it helped me to grow (sounds clich</p>
<p>My commonapp essay was about being from the Midwest and identifying more with that than my racial identity. And my Yale one was at once about my religious beliefs, favorite books, and academic interests at Yale (the books tied together those two disparate threads. It worked I promise! haha)</p>
<p>And as for second choices, if not Yale I’d love to go to Harvard, Stanford, or MIT. But knowing how likely it is that I may not get into any of those three or Yale, my next choice would be Amherst. I can rest a little easier because my chances there are pretty decent I think; they paid for me to visit them through a diversity open house program which should help a lot.</p>
<p>I wrote my CA about how I ask lots of questions. I once was sent out into the hall by being overly curious and disrupting class - I thought it was a funny opener.</p>
<p>My supplemental described my close relationship to my brother. He’s my best friend and I really love him.</p>
<p>I’m planning on studying chemical engineering right now.</p>
<p>My CA essay was about my moms battle with genocide and now cancer and how being raised in a house where impossiblilites were always rejected has developed my character. My supplement essay was about my passion for politics and my involvement in a national political organization and how the study abroad I did in china has helped me decide that I want to dedicate my life to bringing stability and religious tolerance to my home country of Bosnia, where I grew up. </p>
<p>My second choices are Columbia and Harvard but my back ups are my University of California schools since my chances there are pretty good.</p>
<p>It is 2 days, 20 hours, 46 minutes, 47 seconds</p>
<p>My common app essay was about being a counselor at a camp (cliche), but my twist is one of my 10 year old campers came to me in the middle of the night, crying because he hadn’t seen his dad in 5 years. I had to deal with that, effectively being a parent to him at the age of 17 0_o. </p>
<p>Supplement was about my love for music, and how that has allowed me to meet people, grow, etc.</p>
<p>My common app essay was about how I peel tangerines in the shape of integrals (which then related to how excited I get over making new connections between ideas and how I want to study pure math and the social sciences concurrently). My supplemental essay was about this one night at TASP where we went to see fireflies and how TASP shaped my views on diversity. </p>
<p>eep! 2 days and 20 hours left? When did this deadline creep up on us?</p>
<p>My CA essay was about dealing with racism since I moved to the US when I was 8. My supplement was about my brother and how he’s the only person I can really depend on and how he influences me. I’m interested in anthropology. Princeton is actually my first choice, Yale is around third/fourth.</p>
<p>so Eeyore why’d you go for Yale SCEA? Aren’t there 2 or 3 schools where you’d have rather applied your admissions bonus of early action / decision?</p>
<p>Everyone seems to have really good essay topics (: I honestly wouldn’t mind seeing everyone here on campus (that is, assuming I get accepted…knock on wood) </p>
<p>I have a fellow openly gay applicant @Philovitist 
! My CA essay was about how being gay gave me a strong sense of identity and courage, and how that ultimately helped me in my dance career. I also described my 1st prize winning piece of choreography that I entered in a national competition that was inspired by my feelings for a straight friend.</p>
<p>@QuirkyUsername my supplement essay is kinda like yours! I started out my essay telling the story of how I was sent to the office for being too happy in class. The essay is mostly on how I utilized my optimism to counsel a girl with an abusive family.</p>
<p>@litotes the only other schools I can imagine loving as much as Yale would be Brown and UCLA.</p>
<p>Well ok this is kind of a long explanation. I’m applying to instate schools, some out-of-state mid-tier schools, and ivies. Applying to the mid-tier schools wouldn’t have changed anything cause they’re expensive so i’d still have to apply to all the instate schools and ivies. out of the 3 instate schools i’m applying to 2 only have ED and i don’t want to go instate. the other one has EA but doesn’t release decisions until january so i’d still have to apply to all the other schools. so that leaves the ivies. out of the 5 ivies i like 2 are ED so those are out. that leaves Yale, Princeton, and Harvard for EA. Harvard is (traditionally) harder to get into (at my school) so I didn’t think doing EA for Harvard would really help. So that left Princeton/Yale.
Since Princeton is my first choice i didn’t want to do EA because:
- since it’s my first choice if i did EA and didn’t get in, then i’d have to do apps for all the other schools and knowing i wasn’t going to my first choice school would make all those apps really hard to work on.
- my brother applied EA to yale and got rejected, which made my parents superstitious about EA admissions (since they think he’s perfect AND he got into Princeton, which- in my opinion- is a better school) so they didn’t want me applying EA to my first choice
- Last year was Princeton’s first year doing EA and they admitted more people than they should have and they had to scramble during the summer to turn lounges into dorms and stuff so they’ll be a lot more nitpicky with EA this year, and i just don’t want to risk it
so princeton was out so that only left yale, a school i’d love to go to but won’t be heartbroken if i don’t get in. also if i get into yale it means only 5 college apps vs 11</p>
<p>I feel like I’m the only one who didn’t mention specific academic things about yale in my Why Yale, I talked about the people and how they exude genuine passion for what they do, but I didn’t mention any academics, programs, whatnot</p>
<p>These essays are diverse and intriguing…and some patterns of thought like racial identity and music. Interesting. It would be cool to be an Ivy League admissions person. Of course the hard part would be deciding…</p>
<p>@redboldx, I didn’t really mention academics outside of the energetic and engaging conversations I had with professors. I mostly talked about the community feel which is why I love Yale! More so than it being one of the greatest academic institutions in the world.</p>
<p>Wow, writing this I sorta had a revelation. I mean, I know I challenge myself academically and I’m at the top of my class, like many of you are. But to be so academically motivated to have a chance (or even attend!) one of THE best institutions in the world out of tens of thousands of applicants who are the best in the country is sort of amazing. To think how small we are compared to the world and we actually have a chance to compete for a spot at Yale. Random tangent…but…wow.</p>
<p>redboldx, I believe I talked about academics in the form of the “Blue Book,” but I also focused on the student body. So kind of both.</p>
<p>I tried to stay away from defining the Yale community in terms of genuiness… because I was afraid that the adcoms would question how I knew (since I hadn’t actually attended the school yet).</p>
<p>I’d love to know more about how the “running away from a spider” one was written, in third person? was it a super-descriptive narration of a short amount of time or was it conceptual? witty or serious?</p>
<p>@cedardog I talked about the “community vibe” as well!</p>