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Two days after, one of the most obnoxious kids wrote a post for xoJane<ref>http://www.xojane.com/issues/im-one-of-the-columbia-class-of-2017-mocked-on-the-internet-for-my-application-essay</ref>. A representatively obnoxious sentence from that is: "From my playwriting experience, I was comfortable using a script as a medium for my progression of thoughts on this topic."
 
Two days after, one of the most obnoxious kids wrote a post for xoJane<ref>http://www.xojane.com/issues/im-one-of-the-columbia-class-of-2017-mocked-on-the-internet-for-my-application-essay</ref>. A representatively obnoxious sentence from that is: "From my playwriting experience, I was comfortable using a script as a medium for my progression of thoughts on this topic."
 
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*[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2013/04/23/haters-gonna-hate Spec's feel-good editorial]
 
*[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2013/04/23/haters-gonna-hate Spec's feel-good editorial]
 
*[http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/class-of-2017-essays-leaked-by-gawker Spectrum's post]
 
*[http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/class-of-2017-essays-leaked-by-gawker Spectrum's post]
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Revision as of 19:25, 8 December 2013

The 2013 Admissions Essay Leak was the latest in a long line of prefrosh Facebook group follies. About 70 apple-cheeked admitted students uploaded their college application essays to a public Google Drive folder. Gawker and IvyGate published and added derisive comments about them. It was surely pretty obnoxious for the first-years to post them, but a whole other thing entirely for the media to share and mock them.

In solidarity, Bwog and The Columbia Lion decided to post excerpts of their own staffers' admissions essays.[1][2]

Two days after, one of the most obnoxious kids wrote a post for xoJane[3]. A representatively obnoxious sentence from that is: "From my playwriting experience, I was comfortable using a script as a medium for my progression of thoughts on this topic."

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