<p>I love (and hate) this part of the Vassar Application. I was just wondering if anyone would be willing to share what kinds of things they sent/are going to send, or if you whether or not you sent one at all.</p>
<p>I sent in a 20 page biography I wrote in 5th grade on Maria Mitchell, Vassar's first hired professor, and a 1 page current writing sample. It was fairly epic.</p>
<p>Post away!</p>
<p>I think I will send a short story that I wrote last year and particularly liked.</p>
<p>My essay was on tea flavors and how my various moods align with those flavors. I sent in tea bags of flavors mentioned in the essay.</p>
<p>And I should be receiving my ED letter today...I hope I get in!</p>
<p>Good luck! I read about your yourspace before, sounds like a very cool idea.</p>
<p>It didn't arrive today :/</p>
<p>My son didn't do anything too creative, or quirky. He wrote an essay about his love of history, and that he has been obsessed with WWII since he was 8 years old.
Just an open and honest essay. Be yourself, and hope they see that! Good luck!!</p>
<p>I'm a current freshman -- I sent in a video of me teaching the first bit of a piece I choreographed for my senior project (I was a dance major at a performing arts HS). And that video accidentally ended with 13 seconds of my friend interpretive dancing down the hall... poorly... I'm pretty sure the fact that I forgot to delete that off the end of it got me into Vassar. eek.</p>
<p>I don't exactly understand what is required in the Your Space.
Is Your Space entirely a free subject? I don't have any videos or cool stuff to send, so I pretty much have to write an essay. How long should the essay be? I'm guessing it should be as original as possible.</p>
<p>So, that's ok? Let's say, a 500 word essay on an original subject?</p>
<p>i put in a 500 word essay that was pretty much my alternate college essay, and i also submitted three poems i've written</p>
<p>I don't have any poems or songs or videos or whatever...</p>
<p>What could I send?</p>
<p>danielcarp,
In an earlier post, didn't you say you were Honduran, and you did some volunteer work in Tegucigalpa? Do you have any pictures of you doing this work? Pictures might be a good element of a Your Space submission.</p>
<p>If not, you could write something (a reflection, a poem, a short story, an analytical essay) about this experience. Just an idea -- do keep in mind that the Your Space item is optional.</p>
<p>That is true ... but I've exploited that volunteer work as much as possible. It's my main EC and the subject of my Common App essay. I think I should not write about it anymore. </p>
<p>It is optional .. but it feels sort of wrong to leave it blank.</p>
<p>I guess I'll just have to write an essay about life for a Honduran. I'll try to make it 1,000 words, realistic and crude, yet somehow funny too. </p>
<p>thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>im sending my autobiography film project I did. It was made out of construction paper. ^_^
jesus</p>
<p>You really can do anything; admissions people are always telling stories about weird art projects, cookies, and that kid who sent a postcard a day asking if they got into Vassar...I think the point of yourspace really is to send in something that you think shows a little more about yourself, but wouldn't fit into another element of the application, necesarily. So if you have to force out an essay for the myspace, perhaps consider something else.</p>
<p>Or not.</p>
<p>Send something showing what you did in grammar school or junior high...not necessarily an essay...but a photo of the largest snowman made in your town, the Halloween custom you made, a certificate showing you were a member of the model airplane club. They want to see a different personality/feature that has nothing to do with academics but lets them identify you as someone now the same as the other applicants.</p>
<p>I sent a video that I created, with three classmates, in Latin class last year. It's a comical rendition of Icarus and the Golden Wings...the dialouge is completely in Latin, except for the narration (which was one of my parts, in addition to being Daedalus, father of Icarus). I sent the transcript in as well, with an English translation...since it was Vassar, I didn't feel too conscious of seeming foolish or "strange." I think that they will appreciate the creativity of the piece!</p>
<p>Honestly, your space is completely optional. Completely. Plenty of kids get in without doing anything. It is more important to get enough sleep sr. year and not stress so much than do a your space. So relax . . .</p>
<p>Well like they say in wellesley, I'll sleep when I'm dead!</p>
<p>your choice :) would be a better name for "your space." My son did not do anything and got in RD. My point is, spend your time on other things if it is stressing you out so much. It will definitely not make or break your application in my experience.</p>
<p>Good point barbie123</p>