<p>I strongly suggest leaving it off your application. Paris Hilton and college admissions just don’t go together.</p>
<p>no one likes a little princess.</p>
<p>for princeton is it bad if i put</p>
<p>favorite website: maddox.xmission.com (great writer lol)
favorite movie: monty python and the holy grail</p>
<p>paris hilton cant be all that bad. i wrote about her on the SAT in sept and got a 12/12 (if you guys dont remember the prompt was something along the lines of: is success based more on hard work or luck?). </p>
<p>BTW you never said what college the application is for.</p>
<p>Ragnarok227: if you like maddox check out tuckermax.com, to answer your question i would put it and definitely put monty python on there because that is a classic.</p>
<p>you guys need to remember these admissions officers are real people and not machines they will find it refreshing that people with good grades and test scores have a sese of humor as well.</p>
<p>Monty Python is a great movie.</p>
<p>Monty Python are geniuses. If you liked Holy Grail, you should check out their old show - Monty Python’s Flying Circus - and The Life Of Brian.</p>
<p>Yea, I started a movie club and for Dec. we watched the holy grail =). All the guys were quoting line by line and the girls just looked like ***?</p>
<p>I wish I had the SAT’s to try for really great colleges like the IVY’s and stuff like that. </p>
<p>I had a 1270 and I got into Penn State but I couldn’t find any Reaches that I had a decent shot at, that I would really want to go to instead of Penn State. </p>
<p>Now if I had JUST gotten a few more points more, SUCH as a 1340, then I probably would have went all out on my college applications and applied to a few Ivy’s and stuff. I guess you could say 70 points insn’t that much, but I’m pretty certain that if I applied to Cornell or University of Chicago, even if they liked my essay. accepting someone with 30 points lower than the average is ALOT different than accepting someone with 110 pts lower (and basically NO EC’s) is almost out of the question.</p>
<p>I guess I should have taken a 1,000 dollar SAT class or something, looking back I probably would have done a whole Shi–load of stuff different if I had actually started planning for my college in like Freshman year. </p>
<p>I guess I regret that, but I know I’m gonna have a F—ing Blast at PSU-university park.</p>
<p>Basically what I want to say is that, doing an Application that asks what your favorite movie is or that asks what books you like, seems sort of FUN. </p>
<p>OH well. There is always Graduate college applications (if i even chose a major that needs graduate stuff) they don’t ask questions like that do they for grad-school??? </p>
<p>Anyways, Yeah, I guess I’m going to Penn State… I really can’t stress enough that it it a TOP 50 SCHOOL!!! and I didn’t even need to write an essay or do EC’s. because it was Optional.</p>
<p>So I really didn’t have to go through the whole Admissions process that everyone else did, I’m a little saddened by that, but hey, ya do what you gotta do. I think NOT writing the essay was actually better then writing it.</p>
<p>In fact the PSU essay asked to describe a commitement that was involved in one of your EC’s and I have like 3 EC’s so. I said screw that and didn’t even do it because it was optional. I got the Acceptance back withing a Month, right before Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>So my college stuff was done 5 months before most kids in AMERICA, Sweet.</p>
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<p>IMO, many, perhaps most, of the professors and adcoms at top schools will have a very high opinion of Monty Python and a very low opinion of Paris Hilton.</p>
<p>Golden Rule of College Admissions: Avoid Paris Hilton at all costs.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can write about your stay at the Paris Hilton, but just don’t mention Paris Hilton.</p>
<p>She’s the stupidest thing on the face of the earth.</p>
<p>Joey, I took that class and it LOWERED my score.</p>
<p>I think the best practice is take a bunch of tests and find the trend in books. </p>
<p>God, SAT is such bullcrap because it doesn’t measure anything except for speed. The math level is only Geometry yet a Calculus BC student can’t get a perfect score, whereas an Algebra II student can (my friends lol). </p>
<p>Have fun and PSU! It’s not the college that makes the man.</p>
<p>I put Fight Club as my favorite movie and Weezer as my favorite music last year and I got 3 scholarships! Point is, schools dont necessarily like to see EVERYBODY and their brother’s put down Dante and War and Peace on their apps… They would rather see originality (as long as it’s genuine)!</p>
<p>hey, I’m mentioning a marilyn manson book on my CMU app… so I guess it would be ok to go with paris hilton:) just be honest, after all, she’s hot
I wouldn’t mention having viewed the sex tape tho:p</p>
<p>No, I love Russian literature (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov), actually I just finished re-reading Master & Margarita, an I said nothing about any of the greats, but Tolstoy and his War & Peace can be chucked out the window for all I care, with Pilgrim’s Progress, in the snow, where they belong. I can perservere through a lot of things, like reading the Bible front to back in a year, but no War & Peace for me!</p>
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<p>Sure, but both of those are semi-obscure - not well known to the average adcom. And Rivers Cuomo is a Harvard student, so there is at least a scholarly angle. But the fact that Paris Hilton is a vapid bimbo is well known to every person on the planet. Unless it is obviously done tongue-in-cheek, expressing admiration for Paris Hilton will immediately paste a rather large, negative label right across the middle of your forehead.</p>
<p>There are far more original examples than putting down Paris Hilton, there are a million other things out there besides War and Peace and Dante. I can’t imagine why you would want to put that down.</p>
<p>It lowered Your Score???,</p>
<p>Man I though that they would really work.</p>
<p>Unless you love War and Peace as I do (or have even read it)…putting that down as a favorite book was a <em>joke.</em> Certainly, there are a plethora of novels out there to meet everyone’s taste…and what matters most is that you respond HONESTLY to the question. Plugging in a classic novel as a response to the question just because it’s a classic…because it’s the Divine Comedy or War and Peace or whatever…is ridiculous. Back in the day, Good Night Moon and Where the Wild Things Are were pretty fun books too, but Eric Carle books, while classics also, I despised. Write down what you like, Paris Hilton, I don’t know, but, don’t provide the answer you think they “want to hear” because that’s disingenuous.</p>
<p>Whoever said SAT Classes lowered his score I obviously did no work, I am about half done with my Princeton Review course and my diagnostic tests scores have already gone up about 300 points.</p>
<p>Well, Nevermind then, I willl continue to Believe that if I would have taken a 1,000 dollar cours like that then I probably would have improved my SAT score by at least 100 pts. </p>
<p>I’m not really complaining, because I know PSU is a really great school, where there will be many people smarter then me or at the same-intelligence level as me. That is what makes going there so cool, or going to ANY good college exciting. That unlike at my school, at college you will be with people that are actually intellectually sufficient and are going to go places in life.</p>
<p>as I might have pointed out, in my HS half the kids are either Red-necks, Not-Very Smart, or they are in my classes. Out of 127 students in my seinor class about 10 take all the same TOP courses as me. like Honors , and the one AP offered (english). At PSU it’s gonna be like my AP english class with only about 15 students ONLY TIMES like 3 or 4 thousand. </p>
<p>I really can’t wait for the Experience.</p>