Malaysian student - Chance me?

Synxervious
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:28:37 +0000

Overall, I tried to convey myself as someone personable, not flashy - Someone you would want to see not simply as another member of the academic community, but as a friend, a human being, another someone who’s fought for opportunity for all these long, hard years, and whom you would do something amazing with. I’m not sure about the extent to which I succeeded, since it’s difficult to evaluate, but I tried my best.

I really can’t be sure that I managed to convey everything about myself, because I really didn’t know what I should convey that I wouldn’t be able to in an interview. More likely than not, there were a lot of things left unsaid in my application. As much as I understand that the ethos behind sending in a college essay is to cause the adcom to faint in joy and tear up, I didn’t really write about anything flashy in the essays I wrote. Instead, I talked about lighthearted things - Giving up Facebook, not being able to do simple things. In retrospect, though, I think that the interview was the single best part of my application.

I DID add a link to my personal blog, though I’m not sure whether they’ll put it into consideration.

So how different am I from the rest of the applicant pool? Everyone thinks they’re special… And most likely, they ARE special in some way, shape, form, whether in skillset or in ideas. I do have ideas to contribute - I will engage you in a conversation about life, the universe, and lady gaga - I am, beneath everything I write about awards, and test scores, just another teenager trying to make sense of the world, and I think that that at heart, this is what all of us are.

All I did was convey my side of the story… I’d like to believe that Yale likes what it sees so far, because not everyone in my country gets an interview.