<p>what are you guys talking about??? I am lost!!!</p>
<p>are you applying to hopkins mandy?</p>
<p>I work in the Admissions Office at Hopkins as a student workers and on a number of occassions I have spoken with the admissions counselors about what they look for in the $10 essay. Here is some advice that I hope will help the current applicants.</p>
<p>(1) Be Creative
(2) Be Original
(3) Focus more on the Adventure aspect of the essay, not the $10 stipulation
(4) Reveal your personality, character traits, and what makes you unique in your essay
(5) Make sure the reader of your essay gets a clearer understanding of who you are and what would you do given this unusual opportunity to have an adventure with $10
(6) Spend time on this essay, it is supposed to be a bit difficult. Don’t just throw something together liking going to the beach with friends and buying items at a fast food joint. The essay is an important factor!
(7) Oh yeah. BE CREATIVE AND BE ORIGINAL</p>
<p>Hope that helps a bit. Have fun!!!</p>
<p>and oh yeah…</p>
<p>in response to johnny’s question…</p>
<p>You need to do both the $10 essay and the academic class essay. They are both required. </p>
<p>See this post about if you are applying common application…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=100134[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=100134</a></p>
<p>Doesn’t the $10 essay ask you to write about who you would take with you?
Haven’t read anyone mention who they took with them on their adventure.</p>
<p>i think my $10 essay is a bit different than some topics thrown here. i wrote about buying a $10 worth of girft to a very special person in my life with lot of significance to me. my essay takes me through my connection with this person and why this particular gift is so important to me. what do you guys think? is this not adventurous? it means a lot to me tho.</p>
<p>o yeah by the way that was the 10th time i’ve changed topics.</p>
<p>erm, how crazy original can we get? Because I’ve got a few plotlines yet a few of them lean towards magical realism while the others just plunge into fantasy/sci-fi.</p>
<p>I took the essay as more of a creative writing short story than an essay because I’m better at it.</p>
<p>Does that matter?</p>
<p>lol, JHU forum needs an official adcom like some of my other haunts to answer these kind of questions…</p>
<p>So what do ppl usually write in their 10$ essays? I’m an int so I have no idea what it is supposed to look like, though your idea seems cool to me :)</p>
<p>What does the website mean about “a medium” other than an essay? How else would one answer that question!?</p>
<p>Applicants in the past have made videos/dvds, created websites, sent in art, created collages, made scrapbooks, and a ton of other creative ideas. The task is to be original, unique, and creative so the question prompt does not limit the applicant.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>