How Funny Can You Be on a College App
1. He wrote that he would have homeless people fight over $100.
"I wont say how I know this person, but he answered an essay question asking what he would do if he had $100 by explaining he would go to the local playground where homeless people congregated and host a mini Olympics where the homeless could compete for the 150 burgers he purchased with the money. The idea was to feed them but also do a study in human behavior. This was for Johns Hopkins and I'm pretty sure they were not pleased." - TheTaoOfMe
2. He accidentally wrote "farting" instead of "rafting."
"White water farting. He meant white water rafting." - Rock_N_Rye
3. She included a shoe with her application.
"At a law school I was considering attending, the admissions people told the story of a woman who had sent in a shoe with her application along with a note that said 'now I have a foot in the door.'" - harddata
4. They bragged about being able to tell a woman's bra size.
"I know a college admissions person and one time they told me that a student wrote down that they can 'distinguish bra cup sizes by a simple glance at a woman.' They were not impressed." - TheBerg18
5. They said they wanted to be called "The Turtle."
"I once had an applicant come through who put that their preferred name was ' The Turtle' on their college application." - diemidnight
6. She said her favorite book was "Fifty Shades of Grey."
"The worst CV I ever saw as part of an application to a graduate program was a barely-intelligible, un-formatted mess that included such bits of information as she likes to spend her free time reading and her favorite book is 'Fifty Shade Gray.'" - dimgray
7. They got their colleges mixed up.
"Someone wrote a very lovely and extensive essay on how they wanted to go to Vanderbilt. For an application to American [University] in DC." - TardTheRetard
8. He said he hunted peasants.
"'When I was young, my grandfather often took me hunting for peasants.' He meant pheasants. To be fair, this was a Princeton application, so for all we know he might have also meant peasants." - idislikekittens
9. He asked not to be accepted to the school.
"A applicant literally wrote something along the lines of please don't accept me I don't want to go to your school in the addendum section of our application because his parents forced him to apply." - stone4345
10. She triggered a bomb investigation by putting lights on her application.
"Not an admissions officer but a couple years ago, a girl sent in an application to my university in larger than normal packaging. Someone in the admissions office decided it was suspicious looking and might be a bomb. A section of campus got shut down and bomb squad got to use their fancy toys to figure out it was just a regular application that the girl attached lights to so her app would stand out." - Kleoes
11. He said he was qualified for law school because he'd been the subject of multiple lawsuits.
"A guy with a very sketchy work history (in property investment) applied for a law degree, his application was based on relevant experience as he was subject of multiple, and some ongoing, lawsuits.
It was mostly a rant about how he thought his lawyers were incompetent and he could do a much better job. He included a photo cropped out of a group shot at the bar, used many blocked quotes attributed to himself, including something along the lines of 'I want to break down the barrier between success and spectacular success.'" - IdentifiableBaa
12. They sent a very smelly book with their application.
"Less ridiculous, but we had an applicant send in a book they wrote and published themselves. It was difficult for us to really read it, because for some reason the book really stank. We just put it in their file and shut the door...The book itself seemed fine but the odor made it really difficult to read." - daweiandahalf
13. They put 95 for their GPA.
"For their GPA they put 95." - I-Hate-Hats
14. She admitted she was applying because of "The Princess Diaries."
"I applied to Sarah Lawrence with my 'Why our college?' essay being about how I heard about them from the "Princess Diaries" books. I got accepted." - 1231heyo
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Source: https://www.insider.com/ridiculous-things-people-put-on-their-college-applications-reddit-2018-5
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