Are applications supposed to be anonymous?

shoebox10
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:11:58 +0000

You’re*

After you’re accepted, you won’t give a hoot, most likely. I dug up my transfer essays the day after graduation and re-read them…all I could fully relate to was the fact I thought UVa was the better school for me and I would benefit from the transfer, and UVa would benefit having me. Both points are true, but everything else was life as I knew it then and things change and now those heartfelt essays that seemed like life or death are just another fleeting movement in life.

At a state public, everyone is a number in some way. I wasn’t a number to many of my professors, and there’s still a few that check in every once in awhile, which means I really am a person with a life to them. But there were plenty of administrators there, other eschool teachers, and even other people that I was just another name, and I was perfectly fine with that fact.

Admissions: I suggest you maybe look into giving tours. I did e-school tours for all three years and had a blast and I think a lot of tourees enjoyed it (or at least they said so. I ran into one dad at Mellow once and he liked my tour so much he bought me a pizza and a beer hahah). But yes, I think they have student spots, I thought about doing that also but ended up with the tour gig instead. Most schools do so wherever you end up, you’ll have the chance I’m sure.