<p>Haha. Well, I don't have a copy of it since it was a cut-and-paste job onto a very large piece of paper. It was just paragraphs about my life, and I refrained from editing or polishing anything that came out of my fingertips - then I doodled some illustrations around it (I went to art gymnasium, so it was high-quality doodles :-) </p>
<p>They just came as I looked back on everything, and I'm extremely proud of the whole piece. Even if it hadn't gotten me in to such a fantastic college, it was such a relaxed and fun way to come to terms with who I was and where I was going.</p>
<p>The only advice I have for people that want to do something like this is to be creative and reject any conventional ideas you might have about what you "have" to write, for whom, and in what format. It's an essay about who you are, so make it one! We're trained to follow meaningless, infantilizing school guidelines all our lives - college for me has really been about finding my way back to that place BEFORE the routine, where knowledge was fun, where you could do whatever you wanted and feel good about going nuts with it.</p>
<p>Jesus, will you give it up already, my stats are pretty much irrelevant. I took the ACT and got a 27 because I'm lost with math, I'm at a very good Californian community college with a 4.0 and two honors classes, and my only activities are random bursts of campus activities, TA-work for my professors, some lectures I've held for classmates and that's pretty much it. I've been very politically active in the past though. </p>
<p>My chief EC is simply reading stuff within my major, probably what singled me out the most both for my current faculty and the adcom. I'm not a statsmachine, and damn proud of it bud!</p>
<p>Oh, and I used to clean up old ladies for a living. But I'm pretty sure there wasn't even a space provided to list that at the Yale transfer app.</p>
<p>To be frank I see 1) a lot of kids doing "community" EC:s only for the sake of their application, and 2) basic social welfare being outsourced for free out onto these students. The way the whole EC thing looks like right now is just crazy -- Ping-pong anime club presidency has no place in my heart.</p>
<p>Well said, frrrph. Some people just join a club and do nothing and put that on their list ECs. I've confronted some people. They would just tell me that they only joined so that it would look good on their apps. </p>
<p>I think i read someone's post from Dartmouth on this site and it said he/she was in a documentary that was nominated for an oscar. i was like "wth?" is that consider an EC.</p>
<p>get off frrrph's ass everybody. there are plenty of reasons certain students are admitted, and others are declined admission. comparing stats does little for you. i feel i have impeccable stats, yet have been denied to two schools, and have seen students with "lesser stats" admitted. who knows why? who cares? you're either in or you're not. stop dwelling over it and move on with your lives. again, there is no model for which students are admitted, and which students are not.</p>
<p>Nytransfer, no kidding. It's the same syndrome that's made student senate at my college a borderline joke; the kids that run for resume lines only vastly outnumber those who really are willing to learn and make an impact from the experience, and are also far sharkier. It's such a lose-lose situation all around - colleges don't want drones, I don't want my classmates and future co-citizens to be drones, NOBODY truly wants to be a drone. Yet our system is producing them, and feeding off of their frustrations. Isn't it completely absurd we have kids at CC obsessing over whether activity X would look better than activity Y?</p>
<p>...jna et al, thanks you guys. I know it's just internet, but I almost feel I can tell you're the kind of mature, sweet people I'd love to meet. Wish you all the best, too.</p>
<p>REJECTED!! AHAHAHAHA, should I really have expected anything more? Congrats to frrph, you sound like a truly unique and worthy applicant! Good luck at Yale buddy!</p>
<p>ok so get this you all, my friend here in SLC , UT gets her decision from Yale, she is rejected and I have not recieved anything, ANYTHING!!!!!!, it drives me insane, we go to the same University and lived in the same city I just do not see why I have not recieved anythnig. I call and the office administration seems somewhat shocked and then seconds later is like, oh well the package and letters were sent out in first class mail, last friday and that it may stil be on its way!!!. my philosophy is that they should just do everything online., much like Stanford did. oh and the lady who could give me my decision over the phone is out till monday. I am slowly losing hope, but it is not all out yet, it is just weird and suspicious, last year I recieved the rejection letter the day after they released them. could this be a sign that a package is on the way, or am I being too ambitious? whatever.... oh and about frmpphh I forgot to put my e-mail on my application it was out earlier this year, so they could not contact me via e-mail. Post stats later</p>
<p>well I was nothing that spectacular. here are my Stats:</p>
<p>ACT:33
SAT:2290/2400</p>
<p>College GPA:3.9
H.S. GPA:3.9</p>
<p>extrac's:I was a member of the BSU and CESA
LDSSA and the BYU students support staff</p>
<p>I feel that the one thing that helped me gain admissions was the fact that I was from the middle of well nowhere Utah!!!!!!!, anyhow I wish all you all the best of luck with any of your other schools, if it makes you feel any better I have not recieved my package in the mail yet from Brown or Yale, however for brown I dont know the decisions on my application they have been a bit complicated in terms of giving the decision over the phone and for Yale well I was informed via e-mail and then a package arrived, this late yes yes indeed. Anyhow that is my story, and for frrpph , if you are reading this did you get your financial aid with your letter? cuz I am still waiting on mine they have delayed like everything on my application this year.</p>
<p>Yes, I got an e-mail confirming my acceptance a week ago, then a happily chubby admit package the following Monday. Don't worry, it'll contain every single document you'll need to worry about right now. It was extremely well-organized in terms of paperwork and info, and its included transfer handbook very helpful.</p>
