<p>I think it’s great. It shows more about the writer than you guys are giving credit. This person has a sense of humor. He’s a great writer. He’s worldly. He’s a risk taker. He’s smart enough to know that adcoms are bored with the ordinary and not afraid to poke fun at the process. He’s original. I think most adcoms would react very favorably. My reaction is - what an interesting person. I’d like to meet him. Unfortunately for you all, it’s been done!</p>
<p>? This is more a list of credentials (unique, yes, but still a wandering arrangements of personal traits/accomplishments) than it is an essay. There is simply no sense of direction in this paper. Furthermore, the essay lacks any inner-voice that constitutes ‘good essays’. I really don’t see how this is an “awesome essay”…</p>
<p>I like it. I think you’re supposed to know and realize that it’s BS early on, that’s why it keeps going. If you’re witty enough, you’ll catch the contradictions and the ironies - marks of a good writer. Creativity is apparent, as well as personal explanation; we know he’s witty, smart, sarcastic, but polite. I think it is a very clever way to write the essay and it certainly answers the question.</p>
<p>I would say it could have been more structured, but seeing how it is meant to be humorous, I like it just the way it is :)</p>
<p>The author of this essay is a very good writer, but as an application essay, I think it sucks. It was a neverending list of things that never happened, so it became very boring after the first couple paragraphs. In addition, he either sounds very ****y or witty, each of which will get you nowhere in the application process. Fortunately for him, he got accepted into an excellent college.</p>
<p>Here’s the real link: <a href=“http://www.annonline.com/interviews/980223/biography.html[/url]”>http://www.annonline.com/interviews/980223/biography.html</a></p>
<p>The essay wasn’t for NYU; it was for a Scholastic writing competition (and it won). The author did go to NYU, however.</p>
<p>Wow, I can’t believe so many people are ragging on it. Seriously, lighten up, get a sense of humor. It’s not meant to be profound, nor does it ‘suck’. If I was an adcom, I’d let this kid into my school in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>So, I’m assuming all the people who didn’t like this essay wrote their own on the profound, life-changing effect of volunteering at a soup kitchen/scoring the winning goal/overcoming odds that were previously thought to be insurmountable?</p>
<p>Snore.</p>
<p>It’s called “creativity,” people. This board frustrates me intensely. I see so many essays that make me want to crawl into bed and hide under the covers getting comments like “awesomely deep!” or “you’re totally into Harvard with that,” while the one or two essays that were legitimately interesting are ragged on as, horror of horrors, “too risky.”</p>
<p>Good lord, don’t be so terrified to take chances. The essay in this post is an absolutely perfect example of the “show, don’t tell” adage that is repeated ad nauseum on this board. He didn’t have to tell you that he enjoyed writing, or that he had an active imagination, or that he had interests in a variety of subjects by using some tired anecdote; his style and delivery painted made that very obvious without being incredibly hackneyed and dull.</p>
<p>In short, get over yourselves. Yes, numbers are important, no one here is discounting the importance of test scores, gpa, or class rank. But please, please don’t try to apply equations to your personal statement. Adcoms are all familiar with the concept of Personal Adversity+Perseverance=Life Lesson, and unless you figure out a way to spin it in a clever or profound way, it’s just going to sound cliched and boring. </p>
<p>Personally, I’d rather be accepted into a school for having a brilliant personal statement that outweighs some of the weaknesses on my transcript, rather than being accepted simply for putting up good numbers. Would I have gotten into Harvard? Probably not, but I still got into a few great schools. But that’s just my two cents.</p>
<p>It shows creativity. That’s what they want.</p>
<p>lmao. Like I said before. I love this essay. I point and laugh at all of those pathetic enough to analyze the structure and “depth” of an essay like this. You are probably just a tad jealous of the fact that you couldn’t have come up with amazing writing like this if your life depended on it. I admit it, I wouldn’t have been able to, either. That’s why I admire this writer. He/she will go far in life. All the rest of you can only watch.</p>
<p>i’ve been shown this by TWO english teachers already <em>rolls eyes</em>
haha i like it too though, although it wasn’t as funny the 2nd time around</p>
<p>i don’t like it, i don’t know what real and what’s not. is any of it real? i would like it a thousand times better if he wouldn’t have lied.</p>
<p>It’s obviously not real. That’s sort of… the point.</p>
<p>well, then it’s dumb… it didn’t say anything about him except that he’s a sarcastic little liar.</p>
<p>it’s a joke</p>
<p>Does nobody have a sense of humour anymore? Sigh.</p>
<p>How can you not like this? It’s brilliant.</p>
<p>Of course he hasn’t done the things listed there. It’s all a big joke, which is the WHOLE POINT. </p>
<p>Get a sense of humor.</p>
<p>its kinda interesting at first but after the first paragraph it just kept on dragging…i was waiting for some conclusion or some point to be made but i didn’t one… i didn’t like the essay that much because it didn’t say much about the writer except for the fact that he/she is creative. i dunno essay critiques are subjective anyway</p>
<p>I’ve read this before (on CC, perhaps) and I love it. I think it’s great.</p>
<p>Sure this essay may be a big joke, but thats the point. It is a big joke. Theres nothing personal about him in this at all other than that he may have a sense of humor. </p>
<p>Secondly a lot of us have seen this essay in sample books or heard of it somewhere. admissions will know if this essay is original or not. So id think twice before sending this essay</p>
<p>And the reader tends to feel a lot of dishonesty in this. If hes as great as he says he is, then prove it (im pretty sure everything hes listed is total bull****) </p>
<p>Maybe if u listed things uve actually done and accomplished in life, the essay may be better.</p>
<p>“Secondly a lot of us have seen this essay in sample books or heard of it somewhere. admissions will know if this essay is original or not. So id think twice before sending this essay”</p>
<p>Ummmmmmmmm. Nobody’s suggesting that anybody here should send this essay.</p>
<p>This thread is a “this is an essay that I think is awesome” thread, not a “should I plagiarize this essay and send it as my own?” thread.</p>