011ik FOOTSTEPS PODIATRY CLINIC • • • 1 From another student, Northwestern received a fine arts magazine with the stu- dent's notation that the pho- tograph on the cover was of his foot. Another creative ad- dition was a bridge construct- ed entirely of toothpicks. Other unusual submissions include: • A nude self-portrait re- ceived by Emerson College in Boston. • Aerial photographs of the University of Notre Dame campus that the applicant had taken from a helicopter. • A board game spin-off Monopoly — "Franchise" — with the object of buying as many franchises as possible, sent to Brandeis University. • A cartoon character re- questing admission to the University of Connecticut. • A bar of homemade soap received by Appalachian State University in North Carolina. • A "scrapbook of life" from triplets received by Duke Uni- versity. • A shadow box that was a miniature of a student's bed- room with all the objects that were meaningful to her was sent to the University of Vermont. • A printed T-shirt with a list of names who supported the appliant's desire to attend the University of Michigan. The College of William and Mary once admitted a New Jersey student and budding entrepreneur who had in- vented and sold chocolate "pizzas" that grossed $10,000. This sweet success story involved selling the creations for $15 apiece. Red cherries represented pepper- oni, and the "cheese" was white chocolate. Two years ago, the Univer- sity of Virginia had a heart- warming February 14th. The admissions committee re- ceived a 2-by-6-foot handmade Valentine's Day card. On one side of the pink posterboard was a red heart with the in- scription, "Now, please send for the rest of me." Notre Dame had a feast of tantalizing applications, in- cluding fresh fudge and a cheesecake. Of another appli- cant, associate director of ad- , ... ■ I■ONI 548-6633 Office Hours: Mon. 10:00AM - 7:30PM 'rues. - Fri. 9:30AM - 5:00PM W. Hampton off-beat tactics to catch atten- tion. "You worry about their judgment and try to figure out if it has any relationship to their application. If it's just adolescent narcissism or tryng to be an exhibitionist, you worry." Northwestern University received a photograph of the applicant's movie-star father emerging from the bathroom — wrapped in a towel! Coolidge laude from Lenoir-Rhyne," Thompson said. "His 'ac- complishments' were listed so that I could see his career in- terests, hobbies and goals?' The student was accepted. "lb show him that we ap- preciated his creativiy," Thompson said, "I rewrote the obituary and included the `Facts' that a building was named for him because of his financial contributions to Lenoir-Rhyne." With this competitiveness comes a concern that college admissions is becoming more of a game and less of an education, according to Boston's Kelly. "Kids are com- ing in over-packaged. What about the kids who are less advantaged and can't afford to have someone buff and polish their essay?" Also, Kelly says these gim- micks "feed into a mania that has become getting kids into the most prestigious colleges. This has taken the place of getting students into a place where they'll get a good education and be happy!' Most admissions commit- tees say unique additions to applications will not auto- matically lead to that stu- dent's acceptance. But many admit that they make the ap- plicant stand out in a crowd of students represented only by transcripts and test scores. This is not a view universal- ly shared. "It is usually — 99 percent of the time — the borderline or the weaker academic stu- dent who submits all kinds of enclosures," said George J. Machinchick, registrar and former director of admissions at King's College in Penn- sylvania. "Lots of icing, not much cake; lots of gravy, not much meat; lots of frills, not much substance." Kelly noted that while it's hard not to notice something "dopey, it creates an impres- sion that the wilder things you do, the more extreme the approach, the more colleges are going to notice and act favorably on it." Kelly, who makes no secret of his dis- taste for gimmicks, said ad- missions offices are inun- dated with fluff. "It is up to us to separate the really good stuff from the fluff," he said, recalling an ex- ample of an applicant who sent a canvas sneaker decor- ated with felt tip pens and no accompanying explanation for the shoe. "Sometimes students find cute what admissions find in bad taste," warned Brandeis' Segal, who advised discretion. Likewise, Harvard and Rad- cliffe's Lewis relayed concern about students who resort to Daniel S. Lazar, D.P.M., P.C. Podiatrist - Foot Surgeon 13740 West Nine Mile Rd. Oak Park, MI 48237 .0 CO 9 Mile Rd. 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