what did y’all write your commonapp essays about
Less than 3 weeks!!!
@Pokerworld, I wouldn’t consider myself an EC freak, but I reply heavily on them…
3.6 unweighted 2140 one sitting SAT, all other numbers are similar (pretty good but not necessarily “Penn good”), although I am at a competitive STEM public school… two things I rely heavily on are my filmmaking experience and architecture. For filmmaking, I made the pitch video to get a company on Shark Tank which ended up being the biggest deal in the show’s history, professional documentary work, and a load more… Architecture, I currently take an introductory course at a community college since there’s nothing at my high school and I’ll be interning at one of the top firms in the country second semester (I’m applying for architecture). my essays are also pretty unique, along with the rest of my application… I’m really relying on the whole “holistic” thing!
@c777123 same here… i co authored a university research abstract (and got it published) and had a great teaching internship at a prestigious army medical research center… but my gpa and sat is not too strong 
(3.78UW, 2260) my essays were pretty good tho… but meh
@tjgirl123 At least you don’t have a 26 ACT and 1800 SAT…
hopefully the holistic process will work out for us!! i really hope i get to meet you guys at penn 
@tjgirl123 One can dream :’(
have faith!!! 50% of an acceptance is believing
Yeah
@tjgirl123 I wrote my common app essay in response to the “intellectual challenge” question. I’m super into philosophy so I took that sort of approach, basically existentialism for this. talked about how I’ve transformed from an absurdist (i.e., Albert Camus’ notion of the absurd) to an Egglestonian thinker (my own term; William Eggleston is a photographer who believed it was pointless to search for meaning) and eventually came back to embrace the absurd (again, you gotta read up… i promise it makes sense in the essay)… and i explain this all through a bunch of anecdotes. if anyone’s interested in reading i’d love to get opinions even though it’s already sent lol
i’d totally be interested in reading!! i wrote mine on my cultural identity and how my perception of it changed over time
Hey, I’ve been reading this for awhile thought I might join in. From NYC , (so yeah that 100 pt GPA scale). Wrote my essay on how my parents discourage me from wanting to go to college but how I’ve worked hard to combat that.
Nervous as hell. I did the PEEP program last month (Penn’s fly in) and they told us that 90% of the kids who did the fly in last year, who later applied got in but I’m still scared!
Hey, I’ve been reading this for awhile thought I might join in. From NYC , (so yeah that 100 pt GPA scale). Wrote my essay on how my parents discourage me from wanting to go to college but how I’ve worked hard to combat that.
I did the PEEP program last month (Penn’s fly in) and they told us that 90% of the kids who did the fly in last year, who later applied got in but I’m still scared
@futurepharm “my parents discourage me from wanting to go to college”
@futurepharm welcome! And I’m sure that makes for a very unique essay! Sure you have a good chance with that and PEEP
lol everyone keeps telling me to be positive and believe but I don’t get the point. Like yeah believe while your actually doing the app so you have a good tone in your essay and you actually try but after that how does it matter whether I think I can get in or not lol. Being positive is not gonna help me at all rn 
And my common app essay was about my family all over the world. I wanted it to contrast my overly scientific app
@VaishS personally i’m not being “positive” or “negative” about what’ll happen- my feelings are neutral towards the outcome, because I know we can’t do anything about it now, and I know we’re going to do great at whatever school we go to
My common app was about how I dealt with a sexual harassment incident at my MUN conference