List of Things You Can Do To Ruin Your Application

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<p>This works the same way as the Top, Prestigious Awards thread, but in the opposite direction.</p>

<p>0 – Jaywalking
-1 – Mild vandalism, speeding tickets
-2 – Referring to “Harvard” as “MIT”
-3 –
-4 – Minor criminal convictions
-5 –
-6 – Cheating, perceived arrogance in essays
-7 – Copying application essay off the Internet
-8 –
-9 – First-degree murder
-10 – Mass genocide, assistance in terrorist attacks, etc.</p>

<p>Add others!</p>

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<p>Harvard/MIT thing should go down</p>

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<p>Indeed, especially since t-shirts like this exist:
<a href=“http://hs.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=20598&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=2223270251&aid=-1&id=501175980[/url]”>Facebook;

<p>:D:p;)</p>

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<p>jaywalking? Is that actually illegal? After my brother moved to L.A. he got a ticket for jaywalking but was let out of it because he was able to prove he was from the New York area. Like him I always thought (and I still do) that those walk, do not walk signs are just a suggestion.</p>

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<p>I’m from Chicago, we cross the street any dam time we want. I don’t think jaywalking even exists here…</p>

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<p>exactly! I basically grew up in manhattan. I remember my dad telling me, if a car is coming straight towards you and you are deciding whether or not to cross the street, just cross. “They’ll stop and if they don’t, we can sue them.”</p>

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<p>lol, I live in a pretty small town and had no idea it was illegal.
and in chicago people pretty much just walk across.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure where these would go but here are some: sexual assault, statutory rape, failing a class, letting loose international computer viruses, bomb threats, skipping school, and possibly perceived ugliness lol.</p>

<p>I could just imagine though…a 2400, 4.0, president of everything gets rejected…because he is a convicted serial killer XD</p>

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<p>just to fill out the gaps and update the list:
0 – Jaywalking
-1 – Mild vandalism, speeding tickets
-2 – Referring to “Harvard” as “MIT”
-3 – Getting less than 200 on the SATs
-4 – Minor criminal convictions
-5 – Failing a class
-6 – Cheating, perceived arrogance in essays
-7 – Copying application essay off the Internet, bomb threat
-8 – Assaulting the dean of admissions
-9 – First-degree murder, sexual assault, statutory rape
-10 – Mass genocide, assistance in terrorist attacks, etc.</p>

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<p>Assaulting the dean of admission. ROFL</p>