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Posts by ragarasika
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Last Post: Oct 23, 2010
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ragarasika   
Oct 23, 2010
Undergraduate / Tennis=Hard work (not genius) - Common App Extracurricular Activity [4]

I think your idea is really good. However, i think your essay has lost focus. You need to answer these questions: Why do you play tennis? How does it make you feel? Why are you so passionate about it?

What have you learned from playing it?
I understand that you only have 150 words ( I'm writing these essays and know the crucial word counts :) ) but I think that is what the admissions officers are looking for.

Please take my comments as friendly suggestions!

Good Luck!
ragarasika   
Oct 20, 2010
Undergraduate / Brown Supplements- "Why Brown?" and "Academic Interests" - Critique! [4]

Hi,
Please be harshly critical with my supplements for Brown. Thank you in advance!!!!

Please tell us more about your interest in Brown: Why does Brown appeal to you as a college option? Who or what has influenced your decision to apply? 1000 char

Brown appeals to me as a college option because of its emphasis on liberal education. As an applicant of Brown's PLME, I find that although my primary interests lay in medicine, I am not constricted to a set of requirements or a particular field. Although the program will fully prepare me for a career in medicine, it does not restrict my exploration and future curiosity of interdisciplinary subjects. Furthermore, the Brown curriculum gives me the responsibility of my education, an incentive to make mature decisions but at the same time choose courses in which I am genuinely interested. I can incorporate my interests in the cultural (Indian classical music and dance), scientific (neuroscience), and historical realms to create an individualistic and holistic education. The students are truly inspired, have a drive to succeed, and abet in each other's didactical journey. At Brown, I don't have to be a conglomeration of letters, numbers, or credits. I can be myself.

Why are you drawn to the academic fields you indicated in the Anticipated Degree and Academic Interest questions above? 1000 characters
The brain is the microchip with which humans process everything. Hearing, seeing, feeling all come from the brain, more accurately as a result of interactions between billions of neurons. My interest in neuroscience comes from an elusive need to explore the origin of what makes us uniquely human: our capacity for thought, our ability to perceive, and our capability to comprehend. Moreover, my curiousity stems from the fact that neurons, despite their miniscule size, are able to produce complex electrical reactions that enable us to function. Furthermore, the connection between music and neuroscience allows me to study two interdisciplinary subjects at ease. The connection, the link between the two would also help me in furthering my cultural music studies and widen my career pathways to incorporate music therapy in my path of medicine.
ragarasika   
Oct 20, 2010
Undergraduate / Opportunities, knowledge, diversity, symphonic band, tennis team - Why Stanford [5]

I think you have a good start to this prompt. However, I feel as if you are describing how you are good for Stanford, not how Stanford is good for you.

The second paragraph, where you introduce the anecdote about your mother, I find, is a sudden change from the first, and goes a little of topic.

Since you emphasize the fact that Stanford provides "academic freedom" and "exploration," so tell them how you would use that at your time at Stanford. What classes will you take to show your diversity?

Please takes my comments as friendly suggestions.
ragarasika   
Sep 26, 2010
Undergraduate / "My ba ngoai" - Common app essay: Personal essay [11]

I really liked your essay! Your descriptions are really vivid, but I think you should connect them to you a little more. Also, maybe it would help to break the essay up into paragraphs to more clearly illustrate the main points of your essay.
ragarasika   
Sep 8, 2010
Undergraduate / "I like learning." - Why Brown? - Brown Supplement [5]

Hi Kevin,
Thank you for the advice that you gave me. I can really see that I was being too general with the topic, and am working on being more specific with my words. But I had one question: the next supplement for brown was about my academic interests that I wish to pursue at Brown. So I was wondering if it would sound to repetitive if I wrote about it in this one too.

Thanks Again
Ramya
ragarasika   
Sep 6, 2010
Undergraduate / "I like learning." - Why Brown? - Brown Supplement [5]

This is my Why Brown? essay. Please be harshly critical with it, and thank you in advance.
Its 1071 characters, so I do need to thin it out a little

Thanks Again!

Please tell us more about your interest in Brown: Why does Brown appeal to you as a college option? Who or what has influenced your decision to apply? 1000 char

I like learning. In fact, I love learning. But, school? That's a different story. In my high school, I felt out of place. Although I valued the rigors of the curriculum, everyone was only learning for one purpose: to earn a better GPA and get into a better college. I believed that my education should an experience that has inculcated all my interests, and not a generic number churned out of a computer.

At Brown, I am given the freedom to grow into a better person and scholar by nurturing my interests in a broad area of subjects. I am given the responsibility of my education in which I am to find a delicate balance between maturity and exploration, delve into various interdisciplinary subjects, and incorporate my studies (or interests?) in the cultural (Indian classical music and dance), scientific, and historical realms to produce an individualistic and holistic education. The tight-knit community of students doesn't compete against each other, but abet in each other's didactical journey. At Brown, I don't have to be a number or a letter. I can be myself.
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