Get to know your fellow applicants

<p>I thought it might be fun for us to get to know each other better with a little survey:</p>

<p>** Favorite color:**
** Favorite movie:**
** Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come:**
** Favorite vegetable:**
** Favorite class in HS:**
** Hardest class in HS:**
** Languages spoken:**
** Favorite hobby:**
** Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet):**
** Reason for rejection: **
** Greatest achievement: **</p>

<p>Favorite color:Yak’s blood red
Favorite movie:V for Vendetta
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come:reading every harry potter book
Favorite vegetable:zucchini
Favorite class in HS:chem
Hardest class in HS: sigh… driver’s ed
Languages spoken: french, english, mermish, gobbledygook
Favorite hobby: eating, cooking things for later consumption
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): the foaming handsoap
Reason for rejection: i may have written my honor code essay about having to poop Greatest achievement: figuring out how to make text boldfaced in this forum</p>

<p>Good idea elytron…</p>

<p>Favorite color: Scarlet and Gray (OH-)
Favorite movie: Slumdog Millionaire!!!
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come: trying to do other work, thinking about where else I could go
Favorite vegetable: carrot maybe
Favorite class in HS: history or english
Hardest class in HS: prolly some math class, most stressful: newspaper
Languages spoken: english, french kind of, two words of swedish
Favorite hobby: reading news sites maybe idk
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): the apartments
Reason for rejection: my commonapp essay goes two lines onto a third page
Greatest achievement: not sure ive had one yet</p>

<p>Favorite color: Purple
Favorite movie: Right now, I’d have to say it’s “Fried Green Tomatoes.”
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come: Shopping
Favorite vegetable: Spinach
Favorite class in HS: English
Hardest class in HS: AP Enviro
Languages spoken: French and English
Favorite hobby: Reading, writing, spending money.
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): the R5
Reason for rejection: Senioritis.
Greatest achievement: Reading the Bell Jar and not killing myself afterward.</p>

<p>Favorite color: maroon/red
Favorite movie: The Squid and the Whale
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come: reading pitchfork and procrastinating
Favorite vegetable: lettuce
Favorite class in HS: english
Hardest class in HS: gov
Languages spoken: english
Favorite hobby: music, graphic design
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): Without a (Noun)
Reason for rejection: my favorite sentence from my personal statement: Having confirmed that she has seen me, I look forward and let her absorb all that is my glistening body as it strides past with dinosaur-like mechanics.
Greatest achievement: completing an entire stand up set without being booed off stage</p>

<p>I also added a few more</p>

<p>favorite music: Fleet Foxes, Belle & Sebastian
favorite book: Portnoy’s Complaint
favorite tv show: (current) How I Met Your Mother/Parks and Recreation (all time) Arrested Development</p>

<p>Favorite color: Combo of blue, white, and orange (or just orange)
Favorite movie: non really
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come: Chill?
Favorite vegetable: celery
Favorite class in HS: Odyssey (deemed a history course, but really similar to LAC education)
Hardest class in HS: Odyssey
Languages spoken: Mandarin Chinese + English
Favorite hobby: Frisbee, drums, gaming
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): ______
Reason for rejection: Lowish grades due to lack of motivation and philosophy
Greatest achievement: nothing really
Music: Hillsong, Angels and Airwaves, Fightstar
Book: not one really
Show: Community, That 70’s show</p>

<p>Favorite color: brown, dark blue
Favorite movie: Amores Perro
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come: readin
Favorite vegetable: cucumber
Favorite class in HS: native american anthropology!!
Hardest class in HS: chem
Languages spoken: english, spanish
Favorite hobby: reading, swimming, music
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): mmm…singles dorms
Reason for rejection: didn’t challenge myself with math or science in hs with AP classes
Greatest achievement: isn’t conventional
favorite music: Just about everything from G. Love to 90’s r&b
favorite books: Of Human Bondage, Angela’s Ashes, Everything is Illuminated, Brief & Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
favorite tv show: The Office, Summer Heights High</p>

<p>Favorite color: Red
Favorite movie: Don’t really have one but love the epic-type movies like LOTR
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come: When I had to, all I did was listening to music or hanging out with friends
Favorite vegetable: none really
Favorite class in HS: Biology
Hardest class in HS: Calculus BC
Languages spoken: Vietnamese & English (tad bit of Spanish)
Favorite hobby: swimming, music, keeping a fish tank haha
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): Duck pond? haha
Reason for rejection: n/a
Greatest achievement: getting into haverford!
favorite music: everything, favorite band is Taking Back Sunday
favorite books: Clockwork Orange, HP, Beloved, Huckleberry Finn, Odyssey
favorite tv show: The Office!</p>

<p>When you guys get in, make sure to join the Facebook group: Haverford Class of 2014!
Good luck to everyone and looking forward to seeing you guys next year!</p>

<p>Hey Walrus, so you’re already in? congrats if you are, that’s awesome. Did you get your ed letter already or go through some other program for admission?</p>

<p>Thanks, I got in through the Questbridge National College Match program and found out about it Dec. 1.</p>

<p>Oh cool nice job.</p>

<p>Do you guys find out the 15th?</p>

<p>Favorite color: green
Favorite movie: Stage Door
Coping mechanism while waiting for letters to come: trying not to think about penguins
Favorite vegetable: broccoli
Favorite class in HS: creative writing
Hardest class in HS: math (specifically calculator programming)
Languages spoken:german, some french
Favorite hobby:running
Favorite part of haverford (something we haven’t heard yet): people don’t compare grades, it’s all about themselves.
Reason for rejection:definitely my transcript/ACT scores
Greatest achievement: aside from running, creative writing.</p>

<p>I just got my letter!!! I’m in!!! :smiley: Hope to see you guys next fall!!</p>

<p>luckyy, mine didn’t come so i have to wait another 2 days</p>

<p>hahhaha yess!!! that’s awesome xcredhead :slight_smile:
cheers guys keep it posted!</p>

<p>mine didnt come either. anxiously waiting until monday now too</p>

<p>Congratulations xcredhead!</p>

<p>yup, best luck, i know how badly you burn for it!</p>

<p>thanks everyone. hopefully i can say the same thing to everyone else in the next few days. :)</p>