What was your college application essay about?

[elbosco]

With the sudden influx of "rate my essay" threads sprouting up I became nostalgic for my own college application essay in the days long past.

My essay was about ice cream. That's right, ice cream. I attributed ice cream to character growth and development. Just a silly topic that I had fun with and enjoyed writing. I remember the school counselors loving it.

What was your application essay based on? For those still in high school, what do you think you'll write about?

 

[gotsmack]

I went to Rutgers, they don't require one.

 

[Goosemaster]

The development of fig newtons as a source of comedic rhetoric for vagrants in Witchita, Ka.

The last one I wrote was quite philosphical IIRc...quite nice..too bad it prolly got deleted off of my PC somewhere

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: gotsmack
I went to Rutgers, they don't require one.

How beers could you chug during the second interview?

 

[elbosco]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: gotsmack
I went to Rutgers, they don't require one.

How beers could you chug during the second interview?

You must be thinking of my school, Arizona State University, ranked the #1 party school by playboy, if only because Jenna Jameson lives in Scottsdale.

Heck, I turned in my application a full two weeks late and still got a full scholarship.

 

[DaWhim]

about donating blood.

 

[Whisper]

Honestly, I wish I could remember. I only ended up applying to two schools--I got into both, went to one, and ended up eventually transferring to the other. Funny how things work out sometimes.

I can give you lots of detail as to what my grad school statements of purpose are about, though. Oh, how I love their standard formulae.

 

[elbosco]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
about donating blood.

I once donated blood to get out of calculus. Does that make me a bad person?

 

[Anubis]

i dont remember, but it was most likely Total BS

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: gotsmack
I went to Rutgers, they don't require one.

How beers could you chug during the second interview?

no interview. I just got a packet in the mail and showed up for orientation to do my schedule.

 

[thegimp03]

we had to write a compassion essay... lol?

 

[EyeMWing]

None of my colleges require them. They all option them, so I'm turning one in for everywhere but Penn State (300 (or some other obscenely low, I can't quite remember) character limit for those of us applying online... Uhhhhhhh good luck writing an essay in that. I write sentences longer than that.

Mine is about the crap I learned while serving as project head on a software development project. It's quite good, if you care to read it.