<p>I got in SCEA for class of '09 </p>
<p>My long essay was a typical conversation with my friends at lunch, lots of bad, nerdy puns and stuff, somehow I think it really gets at who I am. I liked it. </p>
<p>My activity essay was about how my experience with debate/public speaking has made me a better scientist. I also really liked that one. </p>
<p>My intellectual interests essay was about perceptual learning, neural nets, stuff I looked at in research I did during high school. Wasn’t so crazy about this one.</p>
<p>My note to my roommate was about my experience on the Badminton team and how I wasn’t an athlete but had fun with it anyway. </p>
<p>Note one thing with most of the essays mentioned on this thread… many of them make you go “wow, he/she sounds cool, it’d be interesting to meet him/her.” In our dorm twice a week we have this thing where a couple of students tell their life stories and we can ask questions. One of the questions we always ask is what people wrote about in their college essays. A lot of them are pretty interesting. They are often very “them” that is they seem to at least begin to explain who the person is. A great essay will be something that begins to get at who you are as a person. It’s hard to get right, but rewarding when you do.</p>