Official Harvard SCEA Class of 2019 Applicants Thread

IxnayBob
Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:51:24 +0000

@classified000, one of the subjective concerns I would have is that there are many people who just don’t “get” poems. I read a lot; it’s one of my favorite activities, and I’m not immune to the pleasures of language used well. I have never enjoyed a poem – my Neanderthal-sounding response to the best poems is: great idea and imagery, why don’t you just say it without making me work so hard?

Those are my $0.02. I think there are people who don’t like poetry and admit it, those who don’t like poetry and make believe that they do, and then people who honestly do like poetry. I don’t know the ratio between them. I would bet, though, that most AOs enjoy reading essays (me too!), so I’d stick to that. Ymmv.