<p>I’m actually in love with UChicago’s essay prompts.</p>
<p>If I don’t get into medical school, God forbid, I want to become a college admissions officer for undergrad institution. I’m slightly obsessed with college admissions and I think it’s a significant process in an adolescent’s life which also has the power to make or break someone.</p>
<p>“Find X.”
Truly Exhilarating.</p>
<p>Perfectpixie:
I see a lot of copy-pasting from govt. websites, and I’m curious as to how much you actually understand of what you posted. The essence of free trade lies in the theory that a specialized economy is better than a generalist economy.
By arguing for protectionism in the processed food, chemicals and other industries, you’re basically refusing to acknowledge that other countries may be more specialized in those industries than India, and that the Indian investors should focus their capital in other industries. Your argument is a variant of the Gandhi-ism protection of cottage industries, that led to the huge license raj that we’ve just got out of.</p>
<p>As for
Its stuff like the above that makes me wonder whether you really understood what you’ve posted. Pulling out due to what people believe is an overpriced asset, waiting for the prices to fall, and then buying again, is how the market works. Its how people earn money in the stock market. Its why the stock market fluctuates in the first place, because demand changes.</p>
<p>I would encourage you to ignore the large and complicated terms and go back to the basics, and figure out for yourself the effects of trade on the Indian economy. Its really not that difficult once you try.</p>
<p>i slept for 9 hours. but my laptop say 8 hrs. thanks minn.
this is my fb status too/</p>
<p>Itsmylife99-Idiosyncratic essays can be meaningful too, you know.</p>
<p>Bluebox- I was wondering when you’d notice that. I was going to leave it up to you to figure it all out :D</p>
<p>Hello PrincetonDreams. It shall be ironic indeed if you chose to go to Stanford. ;)</p>
<p>Ansrox- You hate the cold too? The ‘getting-used-to-the-cold-in-a-few-days’ thing didn’t work for you too hmm?</p>
<p>It’s going. Again. Damn, I’ve emailed the Mods to find out why the sudden dislike.</p>
<p>Way back in 2005 or so, the admin Roger condoned an Indian thread. I think because the quality of conversation degraded, they’ve taken harsh steps.</p>
<p>Yea but I largely agree with itsmylife’s (rather baroque) rant-If they made a forum specifically for Indians, than we should be allowed to talk about whatever we wish. With the occasional digressions into the virtues of Pani Puri, we were still largely talking about the College Application process so they really can’t hold us for not talking about anything related to University apps. I understand them deleting a thread when someone becomes overly rude or violates someone else’s privacy, but I don’t get why they closed TiT XIX!</p>
<p>Saw their reply now. Guess we should have started the discussion with Essay topics and College selectivity and such. I’m still miffed though.</p>
<p>I don’t have a favourite word. Who even has a favourite word of all things? What am I supposed to do? <em>dramatically collapses on floor</em></p>
<p>Looks like someone’s been working on their Princeton Supplement 
A guy in my school wrote “procrastination”…us IB kids LOL’d quite a bit.</p>
<p>Lol, I was just looking through it. I dislike long supplements with an unparalleled passion. Agreed, they allow you to present the different aspects of your personality, but you have to do it in such an irritatingly mature and careful way. I’m going to end up doing my last few supplements as satires or base them on some idiotic idea or other. Last I heard, this kind of stuff is actually considered ‘funny’ or ‘witty’. They probably don’t understand the student’s frustration prompting him to madly dash off whatever crazy thoughts come to the mind as answers.</p>
<p>Haha, Arun, your post count suffered quite a setback after the deletion of TiT 18.</p>
<p>Wait, he didn’t actually do that did he? LOL.</p>
<p>No it was after the deletion of TiT 19. I got demoted from Jr. Member to New Member. What an insult -.-
Oh I completely feel you, I feel really annoyed with long supplements as well. Two LACs I may apply to the Midwest have ridiculously detailed supplements that ask wayy more questions than the ones in the East ('cept HYP). Maybe it’s just the schools I was looking at (Carleton and Macalester btw). But I feel I have this certain respect or kinship with the schools that require no additional essay or short answers like Middlebury (yay Midd!). An irrational notion it may be, but give us frazzled seniors a break :p</p>
<p>Waise, Harvard has a comparitively easy supp too. In the Yale supp, I gave a pretty wacky answer to the free afternoon question. I figured they would want something real but it was 6 in the morning and I hadn’t slept all night and I was running a fever and the deadline was in two hours the last thing I wanted to do was think up something sensible.</p>
<p>I’ve interviewed with Mac bdw. Steve Colee, Director of Admissions I think.</p>
<p>You applied SCEA to Yale? Noice 
Oh wow, I got interested in Mac through this friend of my parent’s daughter’s brother who went there for undergrad, loved it, and is now doing Grad School in LSE. How was your interview?
I talked to the Dean of Intl Admissions of Middlebury. She told us Midd grads were the ones who invented Muggle Quidditch. That did me in completely.
Ha yea I have a very honest answer to Yale’s What books have you read lately question. Wonder what my counselor will say though haha.</p>
<p>I must have been dropped on the head a time too many by my mother when I was a kid because, yes, I did SCEA at Y. It was a good learning experience though; I know which parts of the app to improve upon now.</p>
<p>The interview was okay, it took place in a coffee shop. Mac had emailed me to know if I was interested and I replied in the affirmative as I didn’t want my first interview to be for my dream college. Mac is too cold for me, but Steve Colee was a very very nice adcom. It didn’t feel like an interview really, it was more of a conversation. However, my hands were still clamped together till the end and I had to quickly wipe them to shake hands with him. This first experience aided me in learning to loosen up for my other interviews.</p>
<p>Muggle Quidditch? Get Out!! What?</p>
<p>Yale doesn’t have a what books you have read recently question. I think you’re confusing it with Columbia?</p>
<p>Okay, I just googled Muggle Quidditch. Wow!
Why are all the cool colleges in well, cool places?</p>
<p>Trust me Pixie, I questioned my sanity way too many times to count when I decided to apply to Yale (doesn’t help that I take Philosophy which makes me question, well, everything). I think applying to one Ivy was enough, else I’m pretty sure I would’ve gone completely catatonic by December 1st.
You’re right, that isn’t from the Yale Supplement :S My mistake.
I know, that was basically my reaction in the conference room. I was like ARE YOU SERIOUS? They even have a league! Amazing haha.
It is rather cold, but I’ll live.
What do you think of Greek life at colleges? Just en generale.
Ah yea the interview scene. I’m glad it went well for you and you had a good interviewer, I’ve had friends with interviewers who barely let them get a word in at all.</p>