People who work in university admissions. What are some the most ridiculous things you've seen on an application?
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"Not entirely relevant, but once I applied for a scholarship to study abroad and the essay question was "Why should every student study abroad?" The movie Taken had just come out. So I wrote 500 words about how nobody should study abroad because it was too dangerous, you could get kidnapped by Eastern European slave traders and my dad wasn't Liam Neeson so nobody was gonna rescue me, and anyway there wasn't anything I could see in Europe that I couldn't experience on Google Streetview. I won. Edit: Also, I'm a high school substitute teacher and I once overheard an 11th-grader say she put stickers on the envelope of her CEGEP application. Her friend was like "why? You're not applying for kindergarten." (CEGEP is like junior college? IDK they don't have it anywhere else, and we don't have 12th grade here.) "
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"I'm not in admissions, but this story needs to be told. Our university gave us the option to complete an optional 'additional information' form. A friend and I applied for the same program, and both filled out this form. One of the questions was "what books have inspired you?" He aptly responded with "I don't read." Annnnnnd was accepted before I was... "
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"Friend put for his occupation "Loose cannon cop who doesn't play by the rules." He got in. "
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I am not an admission counselor but I had a friend who wrote his college essay on the smell of his high schools bathroom. He was hell of a writer and it was the boldest and the most well written writing I have ever read! With mediocre grades he got into Stanford and many other ivy leagues. I figure that the ingenuity gave him a big booster
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""My Little Pony enthusiast" listed as a skill on their application. "
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"I worked in my college's admissions office my senior year doing the first-reading of applications. My favorite essay ever was one that a girl wrote from the perspective of her horse. It wasn't good either. It was like "I think my owner, Jessica, would be great at your university because she's always responsible about brushing me and taking me out on long rides." "
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This guy had his picture taken with Erik Estrada and Mr. Estrada autographed it. He sent it to us along with his admissions application thinking it would help him get admitted.
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My friends mother showed us an admission and the personal statement included gaming as a hobby and that he enjoyed eating doritos with milk. He also stated he just ''want to make the dollar signs roll''. Nope nope nope nope. EDIT: I know gaming is a hobby. I am a gamer. The bad part here is that you don't put it on your university admission.
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"I was a student worker for the admissions office at a state university in the midwest. The standards weren't that high, but there were the occasional ACT test scores that were absurdly low. I once saw a 7 (its out of 36 for some reason). I think you automatically get at least that score if you just fill out D for each answer, which is probably what they did. Occasionally applicants sent in essays, which I read a lot of because I was usually bored, but 95% of them were terrible. The worst was this guy's ode to his cell phone, which was hand written and consisted of gems like: "if I didnt have my cell phone, I couldn't talk to my friends" and "I just got a texting plan, and now I use my phone more than ever". (This was before smart phones) "
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"I had an app in front off me where the student said he wanted to study bidnez "not a spelling error and in the why do you want to study section he wrote to make $$ ya'll "
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