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Date: January 4th, 2005 5:41 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878305) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:05 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab Nice. And only 245 words :) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878406) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:05 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete This essay significantly reduces my annoyance with AA. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878408) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:07 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate yale has got to be fucking with us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878420) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:10 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878433) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:12 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate sorry, it's just that plenty of us are waiting with stronger numbers, and if your essay was more compelling than cute, we might have felt a little better
congrats, anyhow |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:15 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder i'm not offended, don't worry. my thought was that yale would be drowning in intellectual/political/deep/intense bullshit and maybe they could use a break. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878455) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:23 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate that seems like a good strategy, but for someone with strong enough numbers to justify it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878489) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:25 PM Author: Beady-eyed Locus Son Of Senegal If writing a "risk" essay by definition can greatly increase or decrease one's chances of admission, someone with low (for Yale) numbers has a greater incentive to do so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878498) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:28 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate maybe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878517) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:31 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder you're right, my numbers were sub-par so i didn't obsess. i got an idea, went with it, and mailed it in a few days later. i didn't get all caught up in "proving myself," clearly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878527) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:26 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike well, it obviously paid off for her. Yale's a total crapshoot for almost anyone, so being a little daring or unconventional in your essay, *especially* when you don't have "auto-admit" numbers, can be good if it's done well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878506) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:41 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat Dude, it's 250 words. What the fuck do you want, a treatise on the legal implications of the World Bank?
Lay off of her.
EDIT: MY prize-winning 250 word essay had a major factual error in it. Clearly that isn't the main consideration, or even a big one. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:43 PM Author: Apoplectic stage Until I took on this essay, I used to wonder why people thought it was such a pain in the ass. Then I wrote one. Holy shit...it sucks. I don't think anyone should be harping on it that hasn't tried to tackle it personally. And, for those who did write one, I'd love to see you post yours as well. Hell, I'm considering posting my own now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878592) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:50 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I would post mine, but I like anonymity. I'll e-mail it to certain interested parties though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878637) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:51 PM Author: Apoplectic stage I'll gladly swap if you'd like. It's too late to change anything, but I'd like to hear what people have to say nonetheless. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878642) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:52 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat AIM transfer? What's your sn? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878648) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:57 PM Author: Apoplectic stage DumbGreenGuy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878670) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:19 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I'll IM you tomorrow when I'm at work. I don't have the essay here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879216) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:08 PM Author: Apoplectic stage Sounds good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879411) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:14 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Other than a slightly clever double entendre, you've got to admit that it's pretty empty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878452) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:17 PM Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Pearly Brethren I know I always embrace my plastic friend when I get lost, too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878462) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:11 PM Author: Passionate Chad International Law Enforcement Agency It contains a sentence fragment. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:15 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate plus an unhealthy fixation w/ semi-colons, too many commas, and some generally poor sentence construction. about what i'd expect from an ivy league english major (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878454) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:23 PM Author: Beady-eyed Locus Son Of Senegal I have to agree. I can certainly imagine an adcom liking it, but at the same time I am not that impressed with the quality. It's way too cutesy for my tastes, but I can certainly imagine many people who would find it amusing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878490) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:10 PM Author: Bat shit crazy telephone nursing home I don't think it's wise to submit a personal statement in which you essentially admit that you're retarded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878434) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:12 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder do you think it's affirmative action for people who are retarded? i was wondering how i got in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878444) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:15 PM Author: Bat shit crazy telephone nursing home Could be. You certainly can't write worth a damn. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878456) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:18 PM Author: Beady-eyed Locus Son Of Senegal According to the "Why Yale" thread, they don't really care over there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878465) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:12 PM Author: Frisky Home Personal Credit Line It's wity, fun, and lexy has the ability to pull it off.
Aparently Yale didn't mind it. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:13 PM Author: very tactful hospital Yeah, exactly. It's funny how these xoxo posters (especially those who haven't been accepted anywhere yet, much less Yale) think that they're better judges than Yale professors and adcoms. Ah, the arrogance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878960) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:05 PM Author: Bat shit crazy telephone nursing home It's not a question of thinking you're "better" than the adcoms. It's a question of being able to form your own opinion. People like you and the poster above you who form opinions based on what you think reflects the opinion of a prestigious organization are disgusting. Most of the people praising lexy's personal statement don't think it's any good -- they just like it because Yale presumably liked it. That's my beef with this thread.
HTH. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:12 PM Author: Beady-eyed Locus Son Of Senegal That essay reminds me of the stories from the J. Peterman catalog on Seinfeld. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878442) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:14 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab Lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878451) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:59 PM Author: drunken crawly locale Subject: ad . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879364) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 4:27 PM Author: Vivacious scourge upon the earth That is a great essay; far better than most. People who don't think the writing is good probably don't know how to write. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1886760) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 4:33 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency of course, that must be true. and of course you're an expert on writing. thanks for injecting your expertise in here, where it was sorely lacking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1886781) |
Date: January 4th, 2005 6:13 PM Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Pearly Brethren "I lack direction"
"I take direction well"
I get it, don't worry, I just found this funny. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:19 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate this reads just like something i would expect to find on the back page of some women's interest magazine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878470) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:23 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike LOL. Kinda true, you must admit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878488) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:24 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder omg, you're right! i've been reading too much JANE and not enough of anything substantive lately. it all makes sense now. (i'm serious.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878496) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:21 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder Subject: this is fantastic maybe i should post a picture too and you guys can tell me everything that's wrong with me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878479) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:23 PM Author: Frisky Home Personal Credit Line ::rolleyes::
they're just jealous, lexy |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:23 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I'm not jealous. I'm dumbfounded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878494) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:28 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space Well that makes sense; almost everyone else on this board has found you to be dumb. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878514) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:29 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878518) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:29 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space I try, I try (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878520) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:32 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Wipe the chicken grease off your fingers and open a dictionary. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878533) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:37 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space Oh that's funny. I'm black and you are making a chicken joke. What a clever guy you are. I didn't know you could turn racial stereotypes into sarcastic retorts. This is pretty new for me. I bet if I were jewish you would have made a joke about money. Would you like to make a watermelon joke too? Perhaps a banana quip? We might as well get all of the racial stereotypes out of the way while you are at it. Oh boy you're funny. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878555) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:41 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete You're the one who got the ball rolling with a non sequiter insult in this thread, you pussy motherfucker. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878576) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:42 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab "non sequiter"
non sequitur
Hmmmm.... |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:44 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space Perhaps he was the one eating chicken... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878596) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:45 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878608) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:46 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I have a spelling error. You have a comprehension error. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878614) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:48 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space stay off the chicken, boy. I've seen this happen to a friend of mine. He started out eating chicken once a week; then he began eating it everyday. Pretty soon he couldn't figure out jokes. His family and I got worried when he began spelling latin words incorrectly. Don't worry; I'll get you the help you need. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878628) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:50 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete "Me and his family"
Yes, I'd like to hire you as a proofreader. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:52 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space thanks, the joke works so much better now... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878647) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:56 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I hear your movie isn't doing all that well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878665) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:18 PM Author: cerebral mood still a prick huh? nice work. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:32 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Hey. Hey. Hey. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878806) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:14 PM Author: very tactful hospital Yeah, somehow none of the Yale admits are here bashing her. So it goes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878965) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:22 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike Wow, there are some bitter jerks on here. No one knows what these adcomm members are thinking...maybe Lexy's right and they were sick of reading pretentious, pseudo-intellectual BS. What she wrote is cute and shows a lot of personality, and it seems like that's what Yale looks for. Good job, lexy!
But I still must admit that I think mine's better. :)
I don't think I'd ever post my ps or 250 here. People are crazy and stressed right now, worrying about where they'll get in, and I'm sure they're looking at these things with a more critical eye than they normally would. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:27 PM Author: Beady-eyed Locus Son Of Senegal I think it's a bit unfair to call people bitter because they reacted negatively to the essay. I definitely appreciate lexylit posting it, but by doing so she effectively opened the floor to positive and negative comments, both of which she's received a number of.
I definitely plan to post my PS once the cycle is done. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:33 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike I understand that she opened herself up to it, but she posted it to be helpful and to let people see what caught the admissions officers' attention. People totally ripped into her and were unnecessarily harsh. There are more sophisticated ways to offer criticism than to say, "you certainly can't write worth a damn." Good writing is pretty subjective, and the Yale adcomm obviously thought hers was good enough.
Edited: would you really post your PS on here? I *know* mine is good, and I wouldn't do that. Anytime you post something as a shining example, people automatically view it with a much more critical eye than they normally would have. If Lexy had been a friend of one of these posters, and they were proofreading her essay, they probably would have thought it was cute. But since it got her into Yale and she posted it here, most likely as some sort of example, people want to tear it apart. you can find flaws in *any* piece of writing if you're looking for them. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:41 PM Author: Beady-eyed Locus Son Of Senegal I posted all of my college app essays on the PR board a very long time ago. I found the opinions extremely entertaining and interesting.
I definitely agree that someone who knows lexy personally would be much more likely to appreciate the essay (as they know her personality), and I think that's somewhat true of my own essay also, which makes me even more curious about the reception mine will get when I post it in a few months. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:53 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike wow, you've got balls. I'd kind of like to post mine as well, but there's no need to do so once admissions are over and I can't change anything. Plus, like I said before, people are much more likely to be abnormally critically if you open yourself up to it on one of these boards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878650) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:16 PM Author: very tactful hospital "I think it's a bit unfair to call people bitter because they reacted negatively to the essay. "
To react negatively is one thing, but to proclaim an essay as unworthy is another. It always amazes me how everyone on xoxo thinks they're more qualified to make admissions decisions than the admissions boards at every T-14. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:25 PM Author: Self-centered jade nowag point Is anybody here at all capable of admitting that somebody out there is capable of having a better application than you? Just because your head is stuck so high up your ass that you can't appreciate an essay written for entertainment doesn't mean that others can't. I bet Yale was sick of reading a bunch of bullshit 250 worders from all of you regarding how you plan to achieve world peace or save the whales.
Congratulations lexy on your admission. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:26 PM Author: Appetizing Kitty Cat she attempts to help after you guys ask to see her essay and you pick it apart.
look, she got in. that's it. there's no grievance committee you can appeal to because you think there was a comma splice. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:32 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder thanks, k ;) i'm kind of entertained by this. i'll take it down soon. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878532) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:33 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878537) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:37 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete No need to save it. Here it is in all its glory.
I am plenty ambitious, but I lack direction.
I sincerely hope the character and fitness review includes no trailblazing component, because I possess roughly the directional abilities of a toddler. Worse, even, as toddlers seem instinctually able to toddle in the general direction of mommy, whereas I become hopelessly lost returning to my table in a restaurant after a visit to the ladies’ room. On beach days, after swimming in the ocean, I comb the shore for hours in a feeble attempt to relocate my companions. When someone asks whether I live north or south of a landmark, or uses the verb “orient” in its literal sense, I blink and gasp as though deprived of oxygen. “After a few days, you’ll get your bearings,” people say, but bearings elude me. Everyone has her weakness, but mine too often forced me off of the freeway and relegated me to passenger seats and Peter Pan buses.
Then I found Maggie.
Others find Christ, Prozac, Pilates; I found Maggie. Maggie is short for Magellan RoadMate GPS Auto Navigation System. She sits suction-cupped to my dashboard and sweetly directs, “left turn in one point two miles,” or “approaching destination on your right!” Would that I could have become my own Maggie; my car is littered with enough direction-laden legal pads to pave the Mass. Pike. But try as I might, I cannot guide myself organically, so I embrace my plastic friend instead.
Ambitious indeed, but I take direction well.
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:19 PM Author: very tactful hospital What an immature, gauche bastard. You're 32, right? Yet you spend your afternoons saving posts made by college students and reposting them against their will? Geesh... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878990) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:20 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I'm 32; but, I take direction well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878997) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:23 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike You're 32? That's heartbreaking. I'd been cutting you slack all this time, assuming you were a precocious but socially stunted 19-year-old, like don barzini. I'll kill myself if, at 32, I'm sitting around on some message board harassing poor college kids. Damn! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879222) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:26 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I'm not harassing anyone. I'm here for law school information. I now know what it takes to get into Yale with a 168. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879233) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:19 PM Author: Obsidian university This is a pretty stupid essay.
However, 1) The whole notion of a 250 word essay is stupid, and 2) I can't imagine that most applicants write things that are much better. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:35 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab Yes, be entertained. Whatever you do, don't let them ruin your day (I know from experience). The fact of the matter is that you are in at Yale, and they are not. I repeat: You are IN at YALE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878545) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:36 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate dude, you've become a real dick ever since your acceptances started coming in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878549) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:39 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab Umhmm. Your bitterness has been exhibited elsewhere on this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878568) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:43 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate not bitter, more like amused. i'm probably going to hls anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878593) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:48 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab Date: January 4th, 2005 6:12 PM Author: abe_reles
sorry, it's just that plenty of us are waiting with stronger numbers, and if your essay was more compelling than cute, we might have felt a little better
---------------- I would call that bitter, or something close to it.
Good luck at HLS. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:40 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike Maybe it's the result of all the dickish behavior he's encountered on the board since his acceptances started coming in. That's how people get jaded...he's had to develop a thicker skin to cope with all of this nonsense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878570) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:42 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate good point, but still no excuse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878583) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:18 PM Author: very tactful hospital Yes, I agree. Some get into Yale and some sit around whining about why others didn't deserve to get in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878987) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:45 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder you're a doll ;) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879297) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:35 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete It's a trivial topic with awkward writing. It's difficult to accept that this is what YLS wants. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878546) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:37 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder i think it's a matter of taste. some like it; some don't. that's how it tends to go with writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878557) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:39 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I'd feel better if you got accepted in spite of this essay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878567) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:45 PM Author: Provocative charcoal death wish office without commenting on the OP's 250 worder, most people cannot write well. Further, the type of writing that works in admissions essays is unlike the type of writing that one does in law school. So it shouldn't surprise you if adcomms are admitting people with less than perfect essays. I think they use the essays to evaluate personality more than writing prowess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878609) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:04 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike probably true, especially at Yale, where it seems like personality is critical. Although I know a couple lame-ass people who got accepted there, but maybe they were able to look cool on paper. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878707) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 11:47 PM Author: Amber shrine The topic is pretty much irrelevant. I know of more trivial topics used by successful applicants. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1888789) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:41 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage Haters should remember that lexy's essay is probably a lot better than the majority of the others submitted to Yale. It's not necessarily difficult to write a good ps, but working within the constraints of 250 words is a really daunting task. She's just as amazed that she got into Yale as you guys are, so there's no need to tell her that she's lucky she was accepted. She obviously already knows this. (Congrats, btw) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878581) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:44 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder thank you, well said. it's very very true re my amazement (as evidenced by people reminding me that a couple months ago i was completely convinced i wouldn't get any t14 at all) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878599) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:44 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I think the quality of the essay is quite low, both in topic and style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878600) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:47 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I think the quality of your posts is quite low, in both topic and style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878622) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:49 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete When you're on a T14 adcomm, I might give a fuck what you think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878629) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:51 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike then what makes you think Lexy (or any of us, for that matter) should give a fuck what you think of her essay? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878640) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:58 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete My criticisms of the essay did not include any ad hominem attacks, unlike the poster to whom I responded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878679) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:51 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat When I'm your boss at firm X, or your Senator, or the judge you're arguing a case to, you'll probably also give a fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878644) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:57 PM Author: Bat shit crazy telephone nursing home Don't be absurd. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878672) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:03 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Yes, I lose sleep worrying about that. You'll be out of the legal profession by 2010. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878698) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:52 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab "When you're on a T14 adcomm, I might give a fuck what you think."
Wow, kinda how most of us feel about you. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:57 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Actually, I'm rethinking whether you're an AA admit after seeing this essay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878673) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:57 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space talk about leaving the door open... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878675) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:54 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage Fine, but keep your mouth shut. I think you are an attention-hungry moron, but I don't rip you a new asshole every time you post, right? Just because someone posts something that leaves the door open for criticism doesn't mean that you have to take the bait. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878656) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:00 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete My criticism of the essay was honest and dispassionate. I don't think it's good, but, have no animosity toward the writer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878686) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:13 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage I never said anything about the validity of your criticism or your feelings towards lexy. I just wonder why you or anyone else would bother to tell her that you think her essay sucks. Don't you have better things to do then make other people feel bad, like masturbating to Michael Savage?
If you can't say something nice, then shut up. It's not that complicated. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:16 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete "If you can't say something nice, then shut up."
That's not the ethos of this board, and you know it.
Lexy seems like a nice girl and is a sexy Jewess. That doesn't change the fact that I hold her essay in very low regard.
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:31 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage Not only is this adage not representative of the ethos of this board, but it is also rarely observed in public discourse generally. I never claimed otherwise. But just because other people are jackals doesn't mean that you have to follow suit. There's really no defense for saying something to hurt a perfect stranger, even if this is what other people do all the time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878802) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:34 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I have no desire to hurt her. I merely find her Yale acceptance bewildering after seeing the essay. Speculating on why someone did or did not get accepted is well within the purpose of this board. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878810) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:58 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage True, but I think you would agree that when people post acceptances, people generally don't tell them that they didn't deserve to get in (with you being the exception, of course). If you'd just said "Your essay doesn't blow me away, wonder what tipped the scales in your favor?" you would have been well within the boundaries of common decency, and you would have been echoing the thoughts of many people on this board, lexy included. But you went a lot further than that, especially in your posts to some of the other commentators.
Plus, though I know that men are somewhat dense, I can't believe that in your testosterone-induced fog you didn't think that what you said is mean-spirited. You're going to be a virgin forever if you don't learn to reign in you mouth. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:06 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete My board persona is different from my real life persona. I'm actually quite empathetic and tactful. Here I say what I would only think in real life. I'm not one of the board's novelty virgins btw. The OP is in at Yale; she shouldn't be bothered by anything posted on this board. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878932) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:21 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space stupid porch monkey law school's for whites - Affirmative Counteraction
is that why you wrote that on my lsn page? You're a pathetic piece of shit. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:25 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I don't use racial slurs, including porch monkey. I've never posted anything on your lsn profile. I've never even looked at your lsn profile. If I have something to say to you, I'll say it on this board. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879017) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:28 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878533
you just made a racial remark earlier on this thread. Yet you claim not to use racial slurs. What, are they beneath you? You're a lousy bigot plain and simple. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:35 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I thought Chipotle was analagous to El Pollo Loco. That's the exclusive origin of my chicken comment.
I don't use racial slurs because I don't judge people according to their race, unlike some adcomms. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:36 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space whatthefuckever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879059) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:22 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage Just because she "shouldn't be bothered" by you being an insufferable creep doesn't mean that being an insufferable creep is excusable. And a closet creep nonetheless! Can't you mount a better defense than this? Temporary insanity, at least? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879005) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:29 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency maybe you personally don't believe in free speech, but on this board people can say whatever the fuck they want. so shut the fuck up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879034) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:30 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space "maybe you personally don't believe in free speech"
"so shut the fuck up."
oh the irony... |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:31 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency are you the resident dolt around here who states the obvious for the other dolts? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879042) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:33 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879049) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:40 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage Excuse me, who the fuck do you think you are? I'm talking to Counter, not you. At least he can engage in an argument - claiming that I'm attempting to infringe on anyone's free speech here is just absurd. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879073) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:48 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency i fear for your blood pressure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879109) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:12 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency i don't understand why everyone is jumping down this guy's throat. he basically stated the truth. the essay is mildly amusing, but far from an example of quality writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878956) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:22 PM Author: navy famous landscape painting space I don't know; maybe cause he writes things like this on my lsn page.
stupid porch monkey
law school's for whites
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:26 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I didn't write that. Did you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879023) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:33 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage First, he didn't state the truth, he stated his opinion, over and over again. Second, despite his claims to the contrary, it seems clear to me that his intent, initially at least, was to make lexy feel bad about her acceptance. If he was really just expressing his opinion, he would have made his point just once and left it at that. But he went a lot further, actually taking the time to argue with people who came to lexy's defense.
I certainly don't expect him to apologize or stop being a jerk in future posts - I just think that it's shitty for someone to go out of their way to make someone else feel bad. Lexy already knows that her numbers are outside of the normal range for Yale - she doesn't need him to hammer that into her head. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:37 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency so he stated his opinion, god forbid someone do that here. honestly, i don't care if he was trying to make lexy feel bad. if lexy posted her essay here, it's because lexy wanted lexy to feel good. if lexy feels bad because one poster didn't like her essay, i would hope that all the others with positive feedback would more than make up for it. if not, suck it up lexy. and if lexy already knows the deal with her numbers, as you say, why would she care what anyone else thinks about them? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879065) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:44 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder ok, i'm so fucking sick of getting accused of posting for positive affirmation. i posted it b/c people kept asking me to, not to show off. i don't care much whether you like my essay or not, but i didn't put it here to feel good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879088) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:47 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency settle down. it seems that no one really gives a shit about this anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879106) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:50 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage I think Lexy was excited about the acceptance and some people were asking her to post it and in her excitement she did so without thinking about all of the haters who troll here. I don't think she thought one way or another about how everyone react. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879122) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:46 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage We already went through this entire argument. Can't you read? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879099) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:49 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency in fact, i don't not know how to read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879115) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:52 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage At last, the truth comes out. I knew it! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879127) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:59 PM Author: Cerise faggot firefighter goal in life Subject: I'm on your side, but an objection... (1) first, it should be "rein in" your mouth, as one would rein in a horse. Granted, if his body is a temple, then I suppose he could be the reigning monarch in his mouth, but I doubt that this is the gravamen of your argument.
(2) Do you really think that nice guys get more pussy? If so, then you might want to read some of those "cads vs. dads" studies on women's sexual preferences ... or, better yet, open your eyes and see who's getting laid.
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:28 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage Nope, I don't think that nice guys have a better chance of getting in a girl's pants. Quite the opposite. I've dumped every nice boyfriend I've had, often after playing them in ways that border on heartless. There's nothing worse than guys who can't stand up for themselves.
It's hot if a guy is abrasive, but there's a huge gap between being a little rough around the edges and being an outright asshole. The latter is never attractive. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:46 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate i'm sure the essay is in the top 10-20% of those submitted to yale, but for someone to be accepted with low numbers i was still expecting more (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878612) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:47 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Really? I would think that it's below average. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878617) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:49 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat Wow, you are just insanely bitter, huh?
You knock one kid for being an "AA admit."
You knock another for writing a "poor" essay and having "low" stats.
Maybe if you spent more time working on your own shit instead of being pissed at the people who have surpassed you, you wouldn't be such a tool. Maybe, but probably not. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:54 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I haven't heard back from HYS yet. HTH.
If this 250 word essay is what Yale wants, I won't be shocked to get in myself. In like fashion, I will also discount the honor of acceptance. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:21 PM Author: very tactful hospital 1fucking 80. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879001) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:49 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate i went to a columbia admissions seminar, and was told that the avg applicant has a 161 lsat. you get skewed from this board, but you have to realize that the avg applicant is an idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878633) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:59 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike The avg applicant to CLS, or the average law school applicant from Columbia UG? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878680) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:03 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate avg applicant to columbia law school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878700) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:08 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike Thanks. Interesting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878718) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 3:39 PM Author: multi-colored sinister toaster Subject: lie Do you think they're telling the truth? They're probably just trying to get more applicants. All schools want a low acceptence rate and a high matriculation rate.
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Date: January 6th, 2005 3:40 PM Author: multi-colored sinister toaster and let me add, they just said the average "applicant." The number has nothing to do with those who get accepted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1886540) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:03 PM Author: Histrionic yellow karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878697) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 6:58 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage I think top 10% essay, combined with great recs and an MA, could push someone with lower numbers into the admittance pile. I doubt they admitted her soley because of her essay, but I certainly don't think that they admitted her "in spite" of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878676) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:10 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike True. Besides, we don't know what her PS or other supplemental essays were like (most people also submit their regular PS to Yale). That could have made a difference as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878727) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:04 PM Author: vibrant site gunner hey, congrats!
nice to see alums, as usual, kick ass in ls admissions.
remember when i guaranteed that michigan was your safety? you didn't believe me.
anyway, congrats again, and drop me a blitz if you want advice on what school to go to. i didn't apply to yale, i would've definitely picked it over any other school.
p.s. i didn't see what your essay was about, so i have no idea why it's causing so much controversy. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:07 PM Author: Bat shit crazy telephone nursing home Ugh.
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Date: January 4th, 2005 7:10 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder thank you!! i got emailed today about interviewing dartmouth applicants-- i think i'll do it. so fun =) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878726) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:10 PM Author: very tactful hospital Lexylit, the people criticizing you and your essay are haters, plain and simple. Let Yale be the ultimate judge as to the quality of your essay, not random members of the xoxo peanut gallery. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878947) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:12 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I'm sure you'll say the same thing if I get into Yale. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1878954) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:23 PM Author: very tactful hospital I certainly wouldn't criticize you. I probably wouldn't defend you, because you don't seem like a nice person and I don't think you deserve it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879010) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:27 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Would I deserve it if I had a black great grandparent? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879024) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:35 PM Author: very tactful hospital (yawn)
You've ceased to entertain me. Bye. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:22 PM Author: Cracking party of the first part meetinghouse I thought it was a good essay. It wasn't life changing prose, but it was different and it actually kept my attention. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879004) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:36 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder Subject: in the end, it's interesting to see what you've all got to say, and i won't lose a lot of sleep over it.
in retrospect, i read some sample successful HYS essays in various books, and i had the same reaction: this is nothig special; i could do better.
so i really do think opinions about writing are subjective, except when it utterly and egregiously sucks ;) i obviously don't think my writing is so bad that i got in despite it, but i'm not shocked that some people don't like it much. to each his own.
thanks for the kind words, to all of you who offered them =)
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:39 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency good stuff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879070) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 8:42 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Any chance your acceptance call was from Ashton Kucher? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879080) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:27 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I think you're a total scumbag, but that was funny. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879236) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:30 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete It's interesting that you have such a strong opinion about me. I've barely noticed your existence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879248) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:41 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat You make yourself known to all of the lurkers with your trollish comments. Your board persona is a racist, homophobic, small-minded, trolling scumbag. Calculated or not, you do your best to be noticed for your opinions.
I'm sure you're aware of it, so your rather weak snide remark to someone like me who barely posts really means nothing. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:50 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete You actually belong at Yale, with all the other liberal fags. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879320) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:55 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat Your intelligence always shines through in your wonderfully well articulated posts, good sir. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879342) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:56 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Too bad you're too late to join Queers for Kerry in New Haven. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879349) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:01 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat If I were gay, it would be a damn good time.
Are you so deeply buried in the closet that you think everyone who calls you a homophobe is gay? It sounds like you need a good solid ass-ramming, kid. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:06 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete No, I don't think every defender of homos is a homo. I just think it's a fun insult to use on an ad hoc basis. You've chosen to attack me personally; so, you shouldn't be surprised when I don't use total restraint.
Your numbers are such that nobody questions you getting into Yale. That should tell you that jealousy isn't the issue with Lexy's seemingly random acceptance. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:11 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I concede your point on the personal attacks.
My defense of Lexy comes because we haven't seen the rest of her application. Two numbers, one small essay and a Master's degree does not a complete picture of an application make.
If anything, this should tell you that Yale looks at the WHOLE app. It should not be reason to attempt to knock her down a few pegs. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:15 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I think she's a nice person and sexy. I have no desire to degrade her; however, her acceptance is an indictment of the process in my opinion. She's a paralegal with an ordinary background and ordinary numbers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879446) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:08 PM Author: Marvelous reading party I guarantee you this acceptance will haunt you till the day you die. You will go into the annals of loopholedom just like: 1. miracle URMs and people who lie about being URMs 2. people who pay other people to take their LSAT
You might be happy now but this will be a chip on your shoulder for ever. You will always know that you got in because you happened to write a cutesy essay that somehow captured the adcoms hear but that you are intellectually inferior to the rest of the admitted class. I don't envy you at all.... |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:26 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat You must be a real savant, being able to judge an entire application from only a 250 word essay. Did you read her recs? See her personal statement? What the fuck qualifies you to call her "intellectually inferior"?
I got in with a MAJOR factual error in my 250-worder, but the rest of my application was stellar - obviously you wouldn't see that if I just posted the damn essay, right?
The whole jealous crowd knocking this girl needs to go back to furiously masturbating while waiting for their dings to arrive in the mail. Lord. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:35 PM Author: Marvelous reading party This is not a "borderline" candidate. There are candidates with 0.2 higher gpas and 7-10 points higher LSAT scores. Recommendations don't play any major role in the admissions process. Geez, you are mind boggling smart, aren't you. When X admitted candidate has lower statistics than practically everyone else in her/his class (let alone the majority of the class in Harvard, Columbia, NYU) than of course she is intellectually inferior to them. This whole episode is a display of utter randomness and capturing the feminine heart of whatever adcomm was there. In this regards one should congratulate the OP in the same vain as one would congratulate the winner of the lottery - with caution, at best... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879264) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:39 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat If you think Yale is so selective solely because they focus on numbers, then you're a moron. They ding Rhoades Scholars with 180 LSATs and 4.0 GPAs - you think they don't look at the rec letters in the process (for example)?
She'll see how she does if she goes to Yale, but as good a measure as GPA/LSAT are of future success, they aren't everything, as the adcomm members clearly understood.
But in the end, the whole reason you posted this utter rubbish is because you're jealous and you want to knock her off her perch. That's fine, but don't mask it as some informed or critical analysis of the issues and just admit that you're a dumbass troll. k? thx. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:41 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete The fact that nobody is criticizing your acceptance should be a clear indicator that you're full of shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879283) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:44 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat No one is on my case because I'm not a URM, I didn't post my essay and I have "good" stats for this board. Y'all didn't see the rest of my application, maybe it sucked ass. What would that tell you?
The fact that I'm not getting crap about it is an indication of the small-mindedness of the people on the board, and also an indication that I'm somehow unimpeachable to the rest of you based on two numbers. It's silly. The whole law school application process has put all of your heads so far up your asses that you can't imagine that other things might matter.
If you can't objectively see how silly the whole thing is, your critical thinking skills need some work. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:51 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike agreed. Honestly, if you were an URM or had posted your essay, people would have been all over you. They're pathetic. Adcomms know what they're doing when they admit people, and I'm *so* tired of these snotty kids acting like they know better than admissions professionals. Seriously, their negativity and bitterness probably come through in their app somewhere. If you don't get in somewhere, get over it and don't try to make other, more successful, applicants feel bad when they should be celebrating. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879328) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:52 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Lexy's acceptance to Yale does show me the absurdity of law school admissions. As far as I know, she is a completely ordinary person without any world class accomplishments. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879334) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:57 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder perhaps one day we will meet, and i might prove you wrong. but i don't hope so ;) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879353) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:02 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I've got nothing against you. You seem like a nice girl. A master's degree from Stanford just doesn't seem like enough to get you into Yale with a 168. We've been led to believe it takes an olympic medal or comparable accomplishments to get into Yale with such numbers.
In all honesty, I was shocked by your 250 word essay, especially considering that you are an English major. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:41 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder you're right, it's going to haunt me. when i hand someone my resume and it says dartmouth/stanford/yale, i can only cross my fingers and fervently pray they won't peg me for the fraud i am.
most of the people on here with nasty things to say tend to articulate their sentiments using words that are just dripping with misogyny. i'm sure you can't see it for yourself, but you should know how it looks from a few steps away. as badly as you seem to want to drive me to feel crappy about myself, i don't think it's going to work today. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:45 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike Good for you, Lexy! Seriously, no matter what these assholes say, you're the one going to Yale. Go out and celebrate with your friends and family and don't let this crap bring you down.
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:46 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat Good point re misogyny. I doubt you would be catching as much flak for the essay if you were male. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879301) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:54 PM Author: Marvelous reading party I don't know what "misogyny" you are talking about. Is this just conjecture or do you have a concrete example? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879339) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:57 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat First, look the word up.
Then, read this quote (as an example): "This whole episode is a display of utter randomness and capturing the feminine heart of whatever adcomm was there."
Then, go into your little cave and think about why you're posting this inane crap. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:59 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike It's the references throughout this thread to women's mags, and tugging at the feminine heartstrings of adcomms (or something to that effect). It's very likely that if she were male, her essay would not have been viewed in the same light, and would not have been judged as harshly. Read it again and pretend it was written by a man, and you'll see. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879363) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:52 PM Author: Marvelous reading party You can call me a troll, a goblin, whatever you want. You can also gloat to your heart's content. I don't know how what I wrote was misogynist in even a remote sense. The fact of the matter is that a personal statement can be purchased, plagiarized and a whole host of things. Therefore if Yale continues to have this liberal policies with admissions its brand value will decline. The only thing this episode has illustrated is the triumph of unpredictability and randomness. There are people out there with hardcore majors and intense accomplishments who will be rejected because their personal statement didn't leave the adcom with crocodile tears. Hopefully we can all have crocodile tears for THOSE rejects..... In the end game we should be happy when people get in based on merit and not just hand out compliments like a bunch of scalpers. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:56 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder lmao! you're not even making SENSE. if my essay is so bad, then it *isn't* what got me in, so why would it matter if it can be purchased/plagiarized/whatever?
and crocodile tears? it wasn't remotely sad. this sounds like a comment for someone who wrote a tearjerker ps about being an orphan, not a 250 essay about a flaw. i wrote about somethnig at which i suck-- far from tear-inducing. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:01 PM Author: Marvelous reading party Apparently you want to intentionally misinterpret my post. Your essay is good... what is bad is when someone with less merit gets in based largely on an essay. What is "bad" with that is what any neutral observer can discern - that an essay can be plagiarized, etc.... Your essay is good in the sense that it fulfilled its purpose ( to the nth degree I might add). Crocodile tears in the sense that it illicited emotion or response in the eyes of the reader that made them do something as irrational as admit someone with subpar statistics. This is a statistical deviation just like finding a flying elephant and should be seen as such... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879370) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:03 PM Author: Marvelous reading party The fact that your humility lead you to post the essay and that you are maintaining a seemingly defensive posture on this thread strenghthens my point that you need to qualify your acceptance.... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879382) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:04 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat Oh. My. God. Go back and read my original comment about the error in my essay. My point was that these essays DON'T MATTER MUCH. She got in (most likely) because of lots of other parts of her application. This makes your argument moot. Your references to "emotions" and "women" make it misogynistic. The incoherence of your posts makes you sound like a douchebag.
All in all, you're not painting a good picture of yourself. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:09 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete She's a paralegal. It would be difficult to be more ordinary. HTH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879414) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:56 PM Author: Marvelous reading party I am sorry I don't meet the criteria of your knee jerk feminist tendencies. I am also sorry that I have that male inclination to illuminate the "truth" rather then get caught up with the feelings of the moment... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879348) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 9:58 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I'm sorry that you're a fetal alcohol baby. Really, I am. Do you have fun riding the short bus? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879360) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:03 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage 174 I love it when arguments degenerate. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:05 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I couldn't help it. It's like arguing with a gorilla - you just can't win because he will never understand what you say. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879394) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:11 PM Author: Marvelous reading party You are such a typical brownoser, I'll give that to you. Why are you instanteously giving the OP the benefit of the doubt that the "rest" of her application was good? Is this always the popular default argument? Someone luckily gets into X school = has to be that the person is extraordinary, brings "diversity" to the table, etc.. Everything I have seen on the message boards in regards to the OP would prove the OPPOSITE. OP is a regular all american girl from a rich family, enjoys intimacy and discussing intimacy, alcohol, etc... Why are you JUMPING to the conclusion that there is something unique about the OP? Are you looking to win brownie points for this feat? |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:16 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I trust the picture that the adcomm was able to put together from her application far more than the picture you compiled based on a bunch of random observations on a message board.
Brownie points? For what? When someone catches this much heat over an admission, I'll defend them. I've watched this happen to other people and I'm just sick of it, honestly. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:21 PM Author: Marvelous reading party You reasoning is absolutely atrocious. I never said that the OP is guilty of wrongdoing, just like fake URMs are not guilty of receiving a boost or people who cheat on the LSAT are not caught. Its a fault of the SYSTEM. There is another individual ruskiegirl who was also admitted with an LSAT approximately 10 points below the median. I happen to have a lot more integrity than you because I congratulate when its deserved. When someone deserves to be accepted or demonstrates real hardship I am the first to stand up and recognize that person. You on the other hand, seeing that your popularity is at stake, will just by default defend the person admitted. This episode reflects much more on the randomness of law school admissions than anything else and the OP is aware of that... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879478) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:27 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat Wow. What popularity?? I hardly post! I grtz'd Lexy ONCE. What the hell do I care if she got in or not, objectively? Good for her that she got in! Why would I begrudge her, especially when I didn't see her whole application?
And where the fuck did I mention "wrongdoing"? Are you making shit up now?
You have no integrity. You have no reasoning skills. You can't even form a proper sentence, spell correctly, or write a solid paragraph arguing a point. If you're in law school, or applying now, I feel terrible for whoever has the misfortune of hiring you someday. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:16 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete The OP is a paralegal, one of thousands applying in this cycle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879455) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:22 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat You keep mentioning this as an "average" thing, but it does show some commitment to the law, if anything. Lord knows what the hell the rest of her app looked like, but I don't really see why you're harping on this as a reason her admission was random. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879484) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:28 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I can understand an Olympian, cancer researcher, AIDS activist, or other unique person getting into Yale with a 168. I don't understand a paralegal getting in with a 168. There is no career track that could make you appear more ordinary as a law school applicant than being a glorified secretary. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879510) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:32 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat When you're on an admissions committee, I'll believe you when you say that "There is no career track that could make you appear more ordinary as a law school applicant than being a glorified secretary."
I think your impression of Yale is also seriously skewed. There are probably a lot of "normal" people attending, who didn't cure cancer, save the whales or do anything else of the sort. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:40 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete "I think your impression of Yale is also seriously skewed. There are probably a lot of "normal" people attending, who didn't cure cancer, save the whales or do anything else of the sort."
I agree; however, they don't have 168's. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 6:37 AM Author: Obsidian university "I agree; however, they don't have 168's."
Do you think people who score a 168 have drooped jaws, severe stuttering problems, and significant mental defects? Whereas those with 174's stand upright, speak eloquently, and are generally impeccable?
7 people from my graduating class went to yale law...among them was one person with a 165/171 split, one with a 166, one with a 171 and another with a 178...all were close friends of mine (i guess i am the loser in the group...hah!), and i would say, having lived/studied with them for 4 years, I didn't find any noticeable difference in their respective intelligences.
I mean...168 may be low for yale, but it's not *that* bad (or "bad" at all)....i certainly wouldn't take offense at it...and i'm sure lexylit did have something else compelling in her application (although i would agree, from the general tenor of her posts, that she comes across as a total idiot, in relative terms).
So if you are pissed off that lexylit was admitted-- fine...but bitching about a 168 really isn't warranted. you'll realize after your first yera in law school or so (at which point it is no longer gauche to discuss LSAT scores) that, although you may find some correlation between lsat/grades, it definitely will not be the case that you will think all 165's are idiots, and all 176's are geniuses.
Quick question-- somewhat unrelated-- would you consider a 4.0 in one's first semester of law school, with a lsat of 165, more "prestigoius" (!) than a 3.3/175? |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:33 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder oh, sweetheart, i've been paralegaling for like 5 minutes. obviously, you don't know me and you wouldn't know that, but i had barely started the job when i applied. it sure as hell was not a "career track" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879533) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:39 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete You were probably a temp before the paralegal job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879570) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:43 PM Author: Marvelous reading party Yes its a miracle of mammmoth proportions - akin to the spilling of the Red Sea. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879600) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:45 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder am i even supposed to answer this? you're speculating on how ordinary you think i am based on what you assume i did in college, what you guess my job is and was, and what you've made up about my social class and background? this is inane. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879609) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:53 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete I didn't guess that you were a paralegal. You've stated that fact. Every paralegal I've ever known came from a temp or retail background. If you drilled oil wells before becoming a paralegal, I see why Yale wanted you.
Two questions. How prominent was the YLS alum who wrote your rec? Did you have sex with him or her? |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:58 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder i've never temped, and i've never worked in retail, and he was just a random partner from my firm with whom i was not sleeping. do you always walk around like you already know all the answers to every question? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879659) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 10:27 AM Author: indecent spot national security agency just wondering, how long did you know the partner before he wrote you a rec? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1880988) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 9:40 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder 6 mos. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1883720) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:55 PM Author: Marvelous reading party Wait I don't understand something. On one hand you are surpised that you got in. I am assuming that this is based on your numbers and your acknowledgment that you are indeed within the realm of ordinary. Are you from a broken down village in Thailand.... did you cure cancer? I guarantee you that there are applicants to Yale that have done extraordinary things. Therefore, all things being equal, YOUR accomplishments beyond "ordinary" would have to surpass their ( the other applicants) accomplishments. As mentioned above this is highly unlikely. There are plenty of Rhodes and Truman Scholars that applied to Yale.
Now all of a sudden you bring a new component into the picture that "might" help explain, after all, why you were accepted (beyond our ignorance). If you are, indeed, not ordinary to the extent that it would influence admissions, as your post purports to show, then why were you surprised by your admissions? This strikes me as duplicitious. Also why can't you acknowledge ( or at least live) with the fact that to a certain degree it seems that your acceptance was a matter of sheer randomness or ephemeral luck. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:04 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder oh, of course i'll acknowledge randomness and luck! that's a little different from saying that my getting in is on par with lying and cheating, and the result of a "loophole," though. i'm sure in shock and never thought i would get in, but that doesn't mean i think they made a huge mistake and i'm going to fail out, either.
i'm not saying i'm a rockstar, i'm just a little weary of certain posters assuming they know every pertinent detail about my or about my application based on a few posts on a few sites. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:08 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete A few posts? You've been all over lsd for months complete with your photo and numbers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879692) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:12 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder ok, you win. i'm exactly what you say i am, and i can't write for shit. thanks for enlightening me, it was really helpful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879708) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:23 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Based on your own posts, I say you're a Jewish paralegal from California with a fluff masters from Stanford. If that's a misrepresentation, it's of your own doing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879766) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:28 PM Author: Marvelous reading party Well white rich girls from suburbia getting in because of "perceived" soft factors does not seem to be an anomaly anymore... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879797) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:33 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder i wouldn't mind being rich or from california, but as it happens i'm neither. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879822) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:36 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete You're about as honest as Clinton. You live in California. You're still from California even if you're not a native Californian.
You're not rich because you're an ordinary paralegal. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 10:06 PM Author: Supple bawdyhouse Affirm. Count., you seem to be under the impression that Yale only admits people with 168s if they have won an Olympic Gold medal or have had a career as an astronaut.
May I remind you that many people with seemingly impressive accomplishments are unable to write well. Law school is known for requiring very strong writing skills. Some people who have saved the whales or cured cancer, etc., cannot write well. I suspect that that is the reason Yale turns down so many people with 177s and up -- because their writing lacks a certain zing.
Just doing well at a tough engineering major and being able to ace logic games in your sleep does not mean you will be a successful Yale Law School student. But writing well probably does bode well for success.
And yes, I think lexy does write well. |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:17 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete "And yes, I think lexy does write well."
We profoundly disagree on that matter, but, little else. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:28 PM Author: Obsidian university what race? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879507) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:29 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete She's white and Jewish. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879515) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:25 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage Being nice to people, especially when we can all agree that the person in question is nearly always nice to everyone else on the board, is not brown nosing. Were you raised by wolves? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879493) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:16 PM Author: Marvelous reading party Tell me... why does everyone have to be congratulated for getting into a school, social graces aside. Hypothetical - someone with a 142, 2.5 GPA non-URM gets into Yale. Should we give him the the honorary congratulations or should we scrutinize the system to see what faults there are. There are a limited number of chairs in each law school and a neutral, innocent observer would want only the MOST accomplished to be admitted there. Therefore, this episode is an illustration of what is bad and unpredictable about the admissions process... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879450) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:19 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat What if they cured cancer? An extreme example, but would you still ding them based on the numbers?
In that case, then Yale should admit the top 120 students based on index, which would mean that Yale would consistently be filled with Harvard/Yale/Princeton/MIT/Stanford kids who scored 180 on the LSAT and got 4.0 GPAs. Meanwhile, many of them might make shitty lawyers and be shitty people, but HELL, you admitted them based on the best numbers, right?
Your view of the process is naive at best. Do some thinking before you bring this garbage to the yard. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:20 PM Author: flatulent stead blood rage There's nothing wrong with scrutinizing the system, but that's not at all what you're doing here and you know it. You attacked Lexy personally, without provocation. Hate the game, not the player. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879473) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:16 PM Author: Marvelous reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879452) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 10:19 PM Author: drunken crawly locale Subject: Great Essay As anyone who browses another board may know, Lexy and I are not friends. We've seriously butted heads in the past. But that is one very good piece of creative writing. Clever symetrical beginning/ending and a topic that, while light-hearted, still has an undercurrent of significance for someone evaluating her character. I've read that the adcoms at yale often read this essay first. If so, Lexy's essay was a spectacular opening to the rest of the application.
I don't even like her, but after reading that i'd be amenable to reviewing the rest of her application materials. I'm sure the Yale adcoms responded even more warmly. |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:44 PM Author: very tactful hospital I can't believe that, 250 posts into this thread, some posters still do not understand the difference between "fact" and "opinion". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879853) |
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Date: January 4th, 2005 11:46 PM Author: Apoplectic stage One begins with vowel. I ate a red candle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879859) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:01 AM Author: dashing roommate rigor Subject: I like it Well done. Congratulations on Yale. Are you definitely heading there? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879907) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:10 AM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder hehe, thanks. likelihood is around 90-95%, yeah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879933) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:13 AM Author: dashing roommate rigor Cambridge is pretty sweet, I must say, but I understand. Good luck making your decision. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879939) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:16 AM Author: Ebony vigorous circlehead I liked the essay too. It was entertaining and well-written. I agree that it's only the people who haven't gotten in being critical. I don't know why people put up with these boards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879950) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 9:43 AM Author: stirring main people base Subject: lexy congratulations! |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:34 AM Author: jet razzle-dazzle national I like it too. Also, you seem smart, and I'm sure that came across in the rest of your application. One of the nice things about getting in somewhere like Yale is that you won't have to have classes with the people who are posting negative comments. Good schools are what keep people like you from having to meet people like them in person. ;) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1879993) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 5:44 AM Author: Dun range trust fund Congrats to you lexylit! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1880792) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 6:47 AM Author: Erotic Rusted Native For those of us who are genuinely interested but didn't arrive in time to read the essay, I don't suppose there's any way you'd consider posting it again? Or perhaps emailing it to us? I'm guessing not because of the mean-spirited comments you've been getting, but I thought I'd ask. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1880812) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 6:53 AM Author: Obsidian university here it is-- notice the general violence that this essay does to the english language (as an almost-english major, i'm insulted that someone would turn something like this in):
"I am plenty ambitious, but I lack direction.
I sincerely hope the character and fitness review includes no trailblazing component, because I possess roughly the directional abilities of a toddler. Worse, even, as toddlers seem instinctually able to toddle in the general direction of mommy, whereas I become hopelessly lost returning to my table in a restaurant after a visit to the ladies’ room. On beach days, after swimming in the ocean, I comb the shore for hours in a feeble attempt to relocate my companions. When someone asks whether I live north or south of a landmark, or uses the verb “orient” in its literal sense, I blink and gasp as though deprived of oxygen. “After a few days, you’ll get your bearings,” people say, but bearings elude me. Everyone has her weakness, but mine too often forced me off of the freeway and relegated me to passenger seats and Peter Pan buses.
Then I found Maggie.
Others find Christ, Prozac, Pilates; I found Maggie. Maggie is short for Magellan RoadMate GPS Auto Navigation System. She sits suction-cupped to my dashboard and sweetly directs, “left turn in one point two miles,” or “approaching destination on your right!” Would that I could have become my own Maggie; my car is littered with enough direction-laden legal pads to pave the Mass. Pike. But try as I might, I cannot guide myself organically, so I embrace my plastic friend instead. "
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Date: January 5th, 2005 9:41 AM Author: drunken crawly locale Subject: Even Better Wow. Even better on the second read. That girl can write. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1880907) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 9:47 AM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Go back to LSD, douche. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1880917) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 11:44 AM Author: violent contagious jewess "One of the nice things about getting in somewhere like Yale is that you won't have to have classes with the people who are posting negative comments."
You're right -- no one will post negative comments. They'll instead disguss it (to no end) with their buddies at breakfast, lunch, dinner and every chance in between ( at least at one New Haven-based Ivy League law school).
I hope this helps. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:31 PM Author: jet razzle-dazzle national Sounds lovely. Btw, I didn't mean that no one at good schools said negative things about each other. But it's hard for me to believe that people at YLS make similar comments to the ones being made here. The ones I know, at least, don't seem like the nicest people in the world, but I can't picture any of them making comments that sound quite as ignorant or bitter as some what has been written here.
Question about YLS: Do you find that it's like junior high school? I mean, it's ok if *some* people gossip about each other. But do you find that it's pretty much impossible to escape? And are the people who gossip extensively seen as jerks, or is it socially acceptable? Do you find that people are abnormally obsessed with discussing who they think is particularly smart/dumb (to a higher degree than at larger schools)?
Btw, I'm fairly sure that if offered admission, I would take it no matter what. I'm just curious about these things. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 11:57 AM Author: Vengeful ticket booth I thought lexylit's essay was refreshing. Now I'm rethinking my Yale essay (I lost some sleep over this last night) and worried that I wrote about too serious and boring a topic. My numbers by no means give me a good chance at Yale. Do you think I could send in another writing sample? Would they even consider it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881251) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:47 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete Refreshing like a spring flowers scented douche. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881380) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:02 PM Author: Obsidian university answer my question above, would ya?
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200#1880808 |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:06 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete The LSAT is merely a means to an end. After admission, your score is essentially irrelevant. 168's are not morons, they're just not compelling Yale admits with only a paralegal background. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881425) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:08 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency i dunno dude... she must have been quite the paralegal. she was only there for "5 minutes" but managed to swing a glowing rec from a partner without resorting to sexual favors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881435) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:11 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete She also denied being from California, despite the fact that she lives there. She's actively engaging in disinformation at this point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881444) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 3:13 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder oh. my. goodness. this is so ridiculous.
i happen to live in CA at the moment. i am not a californian and i will never be a californian, and if youve read as many of my posts as you seem to havem then i guess you've onticed that's a big deal to me. i went to school in NH, but ive never told anyone im "from" new hampshire, either. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:21 PM Author: Marvelous reading party Maybe the same issue of whether oral sex constitutes "sex" would be relevant/applicable here.
HTH |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:16 PM Author: Marvelous reading party Great - now this is going to become a global trend. Everyone should write about cocktail parties and elevator music from now. That will get you into Yale. Forget about that folks - do what the OP did - find yourself a Yale alumnus that will call the admins to convince them that they should admit you. After all nepotism is so widespread...might as well play the game well, right? Nevermind, that most law school applicants will not have the "access" or the "charm" to achieve this. Then if you question these methods you are called a misogynist, right? If you question this lapse in meritorcracy than you are a savant. Go to Yale, have a good time with the other legacy, URM admits. I guarantee you though, that this will fester in the back of your mind for generations to come. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881299) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:49 PM Author: Cerise faggot firefighter goal in life Subject: It seems as though the discussion on this thread is really starting to run in circles.
Here's a summary of everything posted above: Some people think the essay is vapid and/or poorly written, and among these are several who accordingly deride the Yale admissions process. Others think it's well written and refreshingly different; some of these accuse the aforementioned critics of envy. Both sides of this argument are irrelevant to Lexy's acceptance into Yale.
Can someone post something that doesn't fall into one of these three categories, or else let this thread die?
BTW: Congratulations, Lexy. If I were running 1L orientation, then on the first day I would give everyone a campus map ... except you. I'd save the university a shiny nickel!
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Date: January 5th, 2005 12:52 PM Author: indecent spot national security agency people who sign their posts should be shot on sight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881397) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:15 PM Author: Cerise faggot firefighter goal in life Subject: That's an acceptable condition. I can go along with that, given the incredibly small probability of my being physically seen in this forum.
Just to piss you off:
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:30 PM Author: Curious Background Story I didn't like the essay. At least, I didn't like it for its intended use. It was well-written and creative, but I still believe that a law school application essay should in some way pertain to law school or law in general.
I've lost a lot of respect for Yale in the last year or so. I've come to the conclusion that their admissions are more random than selective, and people mistakenly identify the randomness as selectivity. Also, they have a very narrow and stereotypical definition of diversity, ironically. It seems as though they only prize diversity in the form of race or geographic origin, and refuse to believe that a white person from the suburbs could ever offer an interesting viewpoint in class discussions. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:34 PM Author: know-it-all temple keepsake machete "It was well-written"
Disagree.
"I've lost a lot of respect for Yale in the last year or so."
Agree.
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Date: January 5th, 2005 2:22 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab "I still believe that a law school application essay should in some way pertain to law school or law in general"
Unfortunate for you, pretty much everything I've read and heard from admissions people says otherwise. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 2:27 PM Author: zippy smoky preventive strike Yep. Besides, this is the short essay, not the PS. If she wanted to discuss law-related stuff, the PS would be the place for it. The Yale 250 is meant to be creative and interesting, and I think you'd lose major points if you wasted the opportunity to show them how you think, and instead just wrote more law school stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881793) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:50 PM Author: charismatic chestnut knife I liked it. I'm sure it was a refreshing change for profs who have been reading tons of these things to see someone who didn't take it so seriously. It's not Shakespeare, but it reads well, and gives the reader a clear sense of who the author is, which is, after all, the point of the essay in the first place. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881609) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:54 PM Author: Curious Background Story "gives the reader a clear sense of who the author is"
You sure about that? |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 1:56 PM Author: charismatic chestnut knife It's not a life story, obviously, but there's plenty of personality in there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1881634) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 7:42 PM Author: exciting garnet location That's strange. The Yale person who came to my school said that the 250-word essay is meant to be a test of academic writing, seeing if you can make an argument in two paragraphs, etc. The above sounds like a personal statement of privileged background (days on the beach, GPS system...).
But congrats on the acceptance. |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 8:15 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder i didn't know that the beach was only for privileged people. i've seen all kinds at the public beach. do you think the other applicants to yale have never been to the beach? live and learn, i guess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1883374) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 8:22 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab That's strange. The Yale person who came to my school (the Dean of Admissions) said that they were *not* necessarily looking for anything academic...just whatever you feel like writing about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1883408) |
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Date: January 5th, 2005 10:37 PM Author: Apoplectic stage True...I'd always heard that they intentionally leave it *WIDE* open simply because the approach someone takes (whether it be academic, poetic, humorous, etc, etc) reveals a great deal about them. In that case, I'd think that their hoping for something academic (or even hoping for something non-academic) would defeat that purpose entirely. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1883899) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 3:31 PM Author: multi-colored sinister toaster ok, I just signed up for the board, and I don't even see the 250. Where is it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1886507) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 3:45 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder it's on here, dude. scroll up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1886564) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 4:26 PM Author: Vivacious scourge upon the earth Of the five people I know who were accepted to Yale, none of them wrote academic short essays. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1886753) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 6:57 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I did, but I'm probably in the overall minority. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887530) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 11:23 PM Author: Ebony vigorous circlehead I did too...took most of it from my thesis proposal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1888689) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 5:05 PM Author: glittery crackhouse persian Why the hell can't I see it either? I'm too stupid to understand how this board works. I know. |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 5:14 PM Author: Titillating slimy messiness rehab EDIT: Eh, decided not to help out. This has gone on long enough. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887011) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 5:08 PM Author: excitant ladyboy What a bunch of shlemazels.
Congrats, lexy. |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 6:37 PM Author: multi-colored sinister toaster Subject: nope dude?
No, it's not here. I'm assuming that maybe it's something with my options or something, but there is no text under your name for that first post. There's just a blank space.
Oh, and yes: congratulations. |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 6:39 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder the first post is, indeed, just a blank space. keep working on it, einstein. you'll sleuth it out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887442) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 6:41 PM Author: multi-colored sinister toaster What the hell is your problem? I just congratulated you on getting accepted to law school.
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Date: January 6th, 2005 6:59 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I think she thought it was somewhere below. I don't think it is anymore. This thread is totally played out, man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887536) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:06 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder it's still in the body of the posts, two times. my problem, as you'll see above, is a whole lot of criticism and attacks. i missed your congratulations, but half of the nasty posts were followed by sarcastic "congratulations" anyway, so i'm a little on guard and i apologize. i didn't see the need to post my essay a third time within one thread, just so one more person could announce the s/he too hated or that possibly, perhaps, it is "not so bad." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887556) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:16 PM Author: multi-colored sinister toaster okay, I see. Apology accepted.
I only read a few of the posts, and I have to say that they are insane. Now that you told me it's in the middle, I see it.
I wouldn't recommend it to all of my friends, but I'm sure you realize that whenever someone puts some words on paper, she is writing for an audience. Apparently you chose the right path, and convinced the right people that you are qualified for Yale. With that criteria in mind, I have this to describe it: perfect. Congratulations again. For real.
sidenote: "dude," "einstein," "man." Is there a reason you both assumed that I have a penis? I don't. |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:19 PM Author: Effete arrogant address toilet seat I call everyone dude and man, no offense intended, bro. :P (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887614) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:21 PM Author: multi-colored sinister toaster I was not offended. See ya, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887622) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:19 PM Author: Apoplectic stage "sidenote: "dude," "einstein," "man." Is there a reason you both assumed that I have a penis? I don't."
Jesus. What happened to it? And I thought I was having a rough go of shit lately. Kinda puts things in perspective. |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:29 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887654) |
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Date: January 6th, 2005 7:28 PM Author: Citrine nighttime plaza mental disorder i call all my girlfriends dude, too (likewise einstein, jackass, etc). and thank you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1887652) |
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Date: January 8th, 2005 4:23 AM Author: Snowy Psychic I like your essay. But I think your ps plus the 250 got you in Yale. ::sigh:: Your ps must rock, however, how can I ask to read your ps while your small essay has just received some harsh criticism here on this board? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#1894577) |
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Date: February 19th, 2006 8:10 PM Author: Amethyst Heady Double Fault did lexy manage to pass all her fall classes at yale?
wonder how many LP's that dumb bitch'll rack up over the next 2.5 years.
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Date: February 20th, 2006 2:22 AM Author: motley french dingle berry sex offender Funny enough, she could rack up a whole slew of LPs and still have better job prospects than almost every other bitter fuck on this board.
A little birdy told me that she actually passed her classes and is having a difficult time deciding which BIGLAW offer to accept for this summer. |
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Date: February 20th, 2006 6:37 AM Author: Fighting crimson parlor pozpig did it also tell you what she meant when she wrote:
"so I embrace my plastic friend instead. " |
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Date: February 20th, 2006 6:41 AM Author: Godawful Whorehouse does anyone have it? it's removed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=121200&forum_id=2#5137763) |
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Date: March 6th, 2006 2:07 PM Author: Painfully honest galvanic trailer park boiling water it's posted like halfway down the page by the user "the." Search and ye shall find.
It's creative and a little bold to choose as a topic, but some of the grammar is pretty damn poor and some of the complex structure and vocabulary comes off as more than a bit contrived.
I guess it must be pretty good relative to most applicants', because her LSAT scores certainly didn't wow anyone. Dunno... |
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Date: March 6th, 2006 2:10 PM Author: impertinent deep hall I am plenty ambitious, but I lack direction.
I sincerely hope the character and fitness review includes no trailblazing component, because I possess roughly the directional abilities of a toddler. Worse, even, as toddlers seem instinctually able to toddle in the general direction of mommy, whereas I become hopelessly lost returning to my table in a restaurant after a visit to the ladies’ room. On beach days, after swimming in the ocean, I comb the shore for hours in a feeble attempt to relocate my companions. When someone asks whether I live north or south of a landmark, or uses the verb “orient” in its literal sense, I blink and gasp as though deprived of oxygen. “After a few days, you’ll get your bearings,” people say, but bearings elude me. Everyone has her weakness, but mine too often forced me off of the freeway and relegated me to passenger seats and Peter Pan buses.
Then I found Maggie.
Others find Christ, Prozac, Pilates; I found Maggie. Maggie is short for Magellan RoadMate GPS Auto Navigation System. She sits suction-cupped to my dashboard and sweetly directs, “left turn in one point two miles,” or “approaching destination on your right!” Would that I could have become my own Maggie; my car is littered with enough direction-laden legal pads to pave the Mass. Pike. But try as I might, I cannot guide myself organically, so I embrace my plastic friend instead.
Ambitious indeed, but I take direction well. |