shot At swArthmorE

Forgetmenots
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:05:57 +0000

Yep, I also hope that you didn’t type your essays like that. I’m not sure what you’re going for, but it’d look so much better if you dropped it - it’s SO hard to read.

Anyway, your GPA/SATs/SATII’s/courseload look good, but you said that you “haven’t done much” and that you are only in some of those ECs for show, which is unfortunate. I hope you didn’t say that you were an active participant or anything. Also, what kind of personality did you convey in your app? What are your passions? What do you want to do with your life? And what part of the country are you from?

And being born in Eastern Europe (your ethnicity would be white) isn’t really that much of a catch if you moved here at 2 from an unstable country (I moved here at 2 from Moldova - Eastern European too, + poorest country in Europe). If you’d moved here much later it might be different. I mean, I got in, so I don’t know how much it helped me…do you still speak whatever language you had there? A second language does help…but again, I wouldn’t really call it a hook.