<p>So, I’m applying to Stern for Marketing. On my common app, my short answer and famous New Yorker personal statement are relating to theatre. I like theatre a lot, but I’m also very good at and interested business, math, and science and I don’t feel like I’m showing that very much of that outside of the area of interest personal statement and my grades, EC’s, leadership, etc. </p>
<p>Specifically, my common app short answer is about a theatre program I do, and my New Yorker personal statement is about Lloyd Richards.</p>
<p>Should I cut back on the theatre talk?
I don’t want them to think I should be applying to Tisch instead.</p>
<p>i applied to steinhardt and got in and maybe im just really self-conscious but i felt like my app was all over the place. my new yorker was a food critic, my essay was really family personal, my haiku was perhaps i am not/creative enough for this/university, my stuff that i did beside work during the summer is how i couldnt sleep.</p>
<p>so i was really surprised and happy and felt so lucky when i got in.</p>
<p>but then again, im steinhardt, so i have no idea how stern works, not that i knew much of steinhardt either or how apps work in general.</p>
<p>My answers for the supplement were all over the place too. My poem was a haiku about being Hindu, being a vegetarian, and loving animals; my movie was about being a doctor and saving the world from a pandemic that threatens to destroy mankind (since I wanna become a doctor and I applied for the pre-med program thingy); my famous New Yorker was Lady Gaga; and stuff I did over the summer was volunteer at my local library and taking drivers ed. I was sure that my supplement was a complete disaster and it would cause me to be rejected, but I got accepted to CAS so… I guess it was good :)</p>
<p>i think it’s AWESOME your supplements are about theatre! my common app essay, 150-word answer, new yorker (jack kelly from newsies), and something else ALL were theatre, and i’m a bio major. i think it helps show that you’re unique, not just some robotic businessman wannabe. good luck!</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten in… and I am still waiting for my decision</p>
<p>but I wrote about Walt Whitman as my New Yorker
and my poem was about believing in the good in people and how i prefer pen and paper as opposed to online communication
and my movie was set in the 1920s because i took an abstract view of my life and became my alter ego
and i spent the summer working 60 hours a week… </p>
<p>Not that I know anything about what the admissions office is looking for, but I’d argue that the supplements about theater shows another side of you beyond the rest of your application.</p>