[ SECRET POST #275 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #275 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 196 secrets from Secret Submission Post #040.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] rant that belongs in fanficrants not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 2 ] too big, [ 1 ] waste of time, [ 1 ] personal attack.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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[regendy.livejournal.com]

tl;dr personal testimony time: I'm at a Seven Sisters school--not as scarily intense admissions-wise as the Ivy League, but still up there--and both my roommate and I wrote about fandom not just on one application, but for the Common App essay. We both picked relatively mainstream fandoms, though(Disney for her, hockey for me). And it definitely depends on the school. I lucked out and actually got an email from my district's rep saying how much she liked my essay, but I highly doubt I'd have gotten the same reaction from somewhere else.

So basically, writing about fandom can be done if you go about it the right way, because if nothing else, it's not something that the admissions people have already read about a kajillion times. Just trust your instincts and others' advice. And good luck! ^_^

Re: 13

[angerfish.livejournal.com]

Heyyy! I wrote about fandom too! Cool!

Re: 13

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, your response is longer than my secret. And I know someone else who got into a Seven Sister school who wrote about her favorite ship, so it doesn't really come off as a surprise to me. But from what I've seen, liberal arts schools want different things. I heard about this kid wrote wrote an essay about how he stopped wearing sweatpants and got accepted into a really good liberal arts school. I'm not sure ivy league is as forgiving, though, and I'm not sure I'd be willing to ruin my chances. D:

But thank you for the testimony. It's nice to see someone succeed and know that fandom isn't the pit of abomination. And this is tl;dr too, I know.