<p>Do you guys think legacy outweighs affirmative action?</p>
<p>common app long - involvement in cherleading helped me rid insecurity and get involved. used a metaphor which i thought was pretty clever lol
common app short - peer leadership most meaningful EC to me out of a variety of leadership roles in community
penn long - kinda generic… talked about things i would do at penn and what i hoped to gain from being a nurse
penn short - a choppy sort of paragraph going along with short word limit talking about clothes in my closet representing my different “hats” and talked about diff clothes i would like to acquire in the future (nurse’s gown, etc.)
@kristinabrown1 our essays seem really similar. what school are you applying to?</p>
<p>@hardworking21 i read the overachievers and i thought it was great. i read it in the midst of all my standardized testing at the end of junior year. probably wasn’t the best time lol. i’m reading the geeks shall inherit the earth now by her though which is okay</p>
<p>yeah definitely…and u applied ED!</p>
<p>Preparing for rejection isn’t necessarily a bad thing to do…at least it lessens the pain of the blow…I might as well start doing that too…everyone’s soo amazing doing research on cancer and saving babies in africa…i can’t compare to them</p>
<p>@laodicean - Cantonese or Mandarin ?</p>
<p>@laodicean yeah i think so. penn and all the other ivys REALLY look favorably on legacy as opposed to just filling minority slots, but i feel like they would be compared differently anyway</p>
<p>Mandarin (Dad from Shanghai, mom from Nanjing)
You?</p>
<p>Both sorta.
Dad and mom are from Guangzhou but they like to speak Mandarin at home
I grew up with kids speaking Cantonese though weird</p>
<p>Ah that’s interesting. So do you speak both?</p>
<p>I speak Mandarin at home, but my Cantonese is super rusty cuz it’s being a while since I’ve gotten the chance to use it. My mom, for some reason, thinks I have a great advantage over other Chinese people because I know both dialects.</p>
<p>Nice, I’m chinese too. Were you guys born in America or immigrants?</p>
<p>Immigrants to Canada. Moved to the states a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>Born at Yale baby!</p>
<p>OMG laodicean Im from Nanjing</p>
<p>:)
10char</p>
<p>Awww Chinese bonding over here. Proud to be Asian baby!</p>
<h1>notchinese #feelleftout</h1>
<p>We’re just giving one another moral support for our supposedly “tougher” situation.
I got a weighty Harvard package in the mail today telling me how great I was and that I should totally apply there. My mom, being the Asian woman she is, got all excited and giddy. Haha too bad I’m not applying there #notinterested</p>
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<p>So my parents are from Taiwan…can we say political enemies but cultural allies? </p>
<p>@EmPaige21: Hey, at least you’ll have less of a disadvantage compared to the rest of us. 
#youarestillawesome</p>
<p>@SENIO12: Another one who has read the Overachievers! Yay! But yeah, I read it this summer before these college applications. I got incredibly tied to AP Frank, haha.</p>
<p>I love Taiwanese food, even more so than Chinese food even though to others they’re practically the same. I would love to travel to Taiwan in the future and experience the night markets in their full glory. #droolingforawesomefood</p>