【美本申请优秀文书系列】Cornell University 康奈尔大学录取案例文书分享:第一次的不及格

2015年11月23日 美国留学顾问Lilly


学生背景介绍
Adam 在高中的时候,已经创建和维护网站,例如免费帮助非盈利性机构。他曾经获得过校级和区域级别的计算机科学的奖。

最终录取并确认入读美国常春藤名校 Cornell University 康奈尔大学


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SAT I: 阅读660 数学800 写作700
SAT II: 数学(2) 800 化学 700
GPA: 4.17 (weighted)
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美本申请优秀文书分享
Topic: Please write an entry from your own life journal that reports something in exquisite honesty and accuracy.

Everyone passes that test.

Today was my long awaited driving test. I’ve driven the course several zillion times flawlessly in preparation for today. I was confident, but also nervous. I was already one of the last people in my class to have a driver’s license; if I didn’t pass today I’d have to wait another three months until I can take the test again. Worse, I’d have to be on hold at the Department of Motor Vehicles for an hour and a half like last time, when I had to reschedule my appointment because I’d be away at Cornell’s summer program on the date I’d originally scheduled. But there was nothing to worry about. It would be an easy and painless ten minutes.

So there I was, sitting in the driver’s seat banging my thumbs against the wheel and listening to Dad explain how the secret to success was to make sure my seat belt was fastened really tightly. And red lights mean”stop.”

“Sorry,” was all I said, as I hit the curb leaving the parking lot where I had been awaiting the inspector. The inspector mumbled something incomprehensible, as I silently panicked. Does that mean I automatically fail? If he had said so, I would have heard it. Maybe he likes me, and is giving me a second chance. After all, he’s not too scared to be in the car with me. Maybe…

All my fears were justified when we deviated from the course that I knew so well by turning back into the parking lot that starts and ends test. Surely, he just wants me to start over and try that turn again. Fat chance. It was only then that the inspector confirmed that hitting a curb is an automatic failure, and that I had failed my driving test.

I couldn’t believe it. That was the first test I’d ever failed. All I had to do was drive for ten minutes without screwing up. And I couldn’t do it.

Cheerfully reentering the car, Dad was clearly relieved that he wouldn’t have to share the road with me for a good three more months. The whole way home I internally yelled at myself for my failure. How could I have hit the curb on the corner that I had successfully completed so many times previously, without ever hitting it?

When Laura, the little brat, found out, she commenced running around the room banging into walls to demonstrate precisely how I must have crashed. I can’t believe I gave her this ammunition she could use to taunt me. And so I will have another three months and listen to the recording at the Department of Motor Vehicles tell me that my call is important to them and that I should please stay on the line….

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