writing something about yourself.

[beastieangel01]

I am applying for this scholarship, and one of the requirements is to write a statement telling the company about yourself that they cannot tell/know by looking at transcripts and records.

Anyone have any experience with this? I am not sure how to go about it really.

[Kid Presentable]

I am applying for this scholarship, and one of the requirements is to write a statement telling the company about yourself that they cannot tell/know by looking at transcripts and records.

Anyone have any experience with this? I am not sure how to go about it really.

Memories of your childhood. Don't be too specific or gushy, just lay a foundation.

Early interests that pertain loosely to your scholarship.

Athletic achievement to show them you have some life.

One story about a family hardship you over-came.

A summation of how these events have helped you become who you are now.

Illustrate how you plan on taking the you you are now, and best utilising it's strengths (while being conscious of its weaknesses) to achieve the ultimate goal of resolution.

Explain how that goal is only achievable through this avenue, and re-iterate your value to the program.

Pack it, post it and smoke a bowl!

[enree erzweglle]

link (http://www.answersthatwork.com/Download_Area/Fun_Page/university_application.txt)

University Application

This is an actual essay written by a college applicant.
The author, Hugh Gallagher, now attends NYU.

ESSAY: IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.

[beastieangel01]

haha, nice!

[monkey]

i wrote my college admissions essay about eating. my mentor at the time hated it, she said it was too insolent. i didn't rewrite it, and i think it worked. most other people that read it loved it because it was very much an accurate description of me at the time.

im sure i could find it somewhere if you wanted to see it. just IM me or PM me.

[avignon]

link (http://www.answersthatwork.com/Download_Area/Fun_Page/university_application.txt)

University Application

This is an actual essay written by a college applicant.
The author, Hugh Gallagher, now attends NYU.

ESSAY: IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.
Did it get them in or what?

[cj hood]

i'm bigger than bigfoot, large like the Yetti/
i don't do drugs cuz i'm fucked up already/
i rock steady with Mongoose Oil Cans/
and when it comes to 'problems' i'm "Sam the Foil Man"

[enree erzweglle]

Did it get them in or what?

I dug around and found this link (http://www.annonline.com/interviews/980223/biography.html), which, surprisingly, also mentions the Beasties. Here's the full text:

"Hugh Gallagher was eighteen when his college application essay won first place in Scholastic Inc.'s high school writing contest in 1990.

His satiric personal statement was reprinted in Harper's magazine the year he began his studies at New York University. John Kennedy, Jr. spotted the essay in Harper's, contacted Gallagher, and after a beer together at the Whitehorse Tavern, passed the essay on to Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner.

This meeting led to two features at the venerable magazine for Gallagher, and the beginning of his writing career. Signing with the William Morris Agency at the age of nineteen, he went on to pursue various outlets for his talent. Recording a spoken word CD under the name "Hugh Brown Shu" on Gang of Seven Records (alongside such names as Spalding Gray and Wallace Shawn), the young artist turned his talents to the world of performance.

With several shows in downtown New York City and San Francisco, appearances on National Public Radio, KCRW of Los Angeles, as well as comedy Central, Gallagher became well known in the spoken word scene of the early Nineties. He continued with his journalism, with features in magazines such as Wired, Dirt Flash Art, and the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal, and went on to graduate from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1994.

A year of world travel inspired Hugh Gallagher to undertake his first novel, Teeth (1998, Pocket Books). A coming of age tale set in the global youth culture of the Nineties, Teeth was three years in the making.

Raised in Philadephia, Gallagher, 25, currently lives in New York City, and his college application essay - reprinted regularly and in constant circulation on the Internet - remains a classic to this day."


I read this on another page (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/essay.htm):

18 June 1998, update. Hugh Gallagher emailed me, and said: "I was happy to see my college essay on your site (by the the way, I did send it to colleges)."

I don't know if he used that very essay to get into NYU. The rumor is that he did and it did get him in. I can't verify it, but I've only put a couple of minutes into this.

[monkey]

when i entered nyu, they told us the story of an application essay where someone fedex'd a shoe, and wrote "i hope that you help me put my pair of shoes together again in the fall."

nyu likes the kooky essays.

[Anne Lauren]

when i entered nyu, they told us the story of an application essay where someone fedex'd a shoe, and wrote "i hope that you help me put my pair of shoes together again in the fall."

nyu likes the kooky essays.

NYU, huh?! Were you a big smarty in highschool?

[Tzar]

i just got in trouble by my lecturer for not listening - so to "punish me" she asked me a question off the board; and i answered it correctly. fuck her (y)

[Kid Presentable]

fuck her (y)

Not a good idea.

[Tzar]

Not a good idea.
a guy in our class actually has fiddy dollar bet on that he can actually root her by the end of the year.

[ToucanSpam]

a guy in our class actually has fiddy dollar bet on that he can actually root her by the end of the year.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[QueenAdrock]

Well, I don't know if this will apply to your situation, but for my scholarship I told them what my hobbies/clubs were, and how I worked for my education. They can look at my transcripts all they want, but they'd never see a girl who commutes 50 miles a day for her education, and pays for her tuition out of her own pocket by working 20 hours a week (in addition to the 15-18 hours spent in class per week).

Tell 'em if you're in any clubs, or what you're interested in. I told them I was in Search and Rescue (www.pvrg.org for those of you in the DC area who might be interested), and College Democrats. I also threw in the fact that I'd be able to join more clubs and activities if I had extra funds so I wouldn't have to work so many long hours, and in the long run I'd have even better grades, too.

They loves that shit. :cool:

[beastieangel01]

sweet.

thanks for the tips, toots ;)