For those of you who don't know how I look.... THIS IS ME!! :)

This is a picture at this award's night with my principal.

A self-explanatory picture :)

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO FUNNY.

This is a personal statement written for Harvard Law School, written by some FOBBY ASIAN DUDE. No.. not FOBBY....  SOBBY since he is "still on the boat". ROFL.

Hello Mr. Admissions Committee Member and if it is Ms. then I am sorry. I say this for you why it is that I wish to attend HLS. Thank you.

Where I am born in Asia it is like this. When it is cold, we use coal stove for keeping warm. This oven turn everything black--outside of house, walls near stove. Also inside of nostril is black and when you cough, phlegm is black also. For this reason when I am very young, my father is dying when I am very young of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which is also caused by constant inhalation of fume for the coal oven and condition worsened by lack of medical care also.

I say this to you quickly for the blackness of poverty-stricken childhood in Asia. Like coal oven which sends dangerous fumes into air, poverty in over-crowded Asia are constant poison which must be breathed in to survive.

I am the lucky one. Through lengthy circumstance which I am also not for telling you at this time but which have true percentage chance of one in seven trillion, three hundred twenty two billion, one seventy two million, four hundred and twenty six thousand, five hundred and two, I have the great chance for attending Yale University in America. For this I am also the lucky one. This is for certain. While I am here, I have concentrate to remove smoke of indigence from my lung. This I do by work fulltime and also through schoolwork. It is the proud thing for me that I am graduating from fine undergraduate institution.

Also while I am here I learn much about the great American melting pot. I say this for you. In America the only melting I see is that many American say is all Asian. For certain in America there is no Chinese,Japanese. Also there is no Vietnamese or Thai. This is for certain in America there is no Hmong or other small ethnic group. Also for America, we are all melted together into one group: Asian only and model minority also.

Also this is true for what are called people but not for food. Thank you.

For this reason, I say that I am from Asia. Also I am from Asia for it would be the great thing for there should be one in seven trillion,three hundred twenty two billion, one seventy two million, four hundred and twenty six thousand, five hundred and two chance also happen to other person of my family! Also it is for certain that my family is in Asia and for the letter I receive, they still keep warm around coal oven and also it is often cold there. Still they are inhaling black corrosive odor of poverty.

Also for this I learn that although in Asia there are Korean and Cambodean and other ethnic group and in America only Asian I am know for certain that black smoke from coal stove, scented with perfume of penury, is to be found in all country in Asia also and not just with my family. I am to return to Asia to be with my family also I hope to foster business relation in Asia through public policy which help clear up figurative black coal smoke from poorest part of Asia.

Also literal black coal smoke which is bad for environment.

For this reason I plan to return to Asia after law school and for this reason I am apply to HLS and HLS only, for HLS is the best in Asia. Also I hope to return to Asia after HLS and to also be the best for Asia. Thank you.

Okay guys, today is the Campus Tour day. (YAY) Today you will see various pics from Penn's campus. My guidance counselor told me Penn sux in terms of campus - well, I think it still does better than JIS :p

This is the statue of Benjamin Franklin, founder of Penn. He actually founded Penn in 1769 but Penn claims it was founded in 1740 because its first building was built in 1740. Weird huh?

This is a pic of the *ghetto* city of Philly. I personally didn't think it was *ghetto* at all, but everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.

Some random pic of Penn. You will see this one when you are on the way to Franklin Field.

This is Penn Bookstore. You can't see it but the Inn at Penn, managed by Hilton, is on the opposite side of this building. Penn is the only university that is served by three on-campus hotels - Inn at Penn (Hilton), Sheraton University City (Sheraton) and Hyatt Campus City. (Hyatt)

This is the first student union building in the US... and it's at Penn of course :p

This is ENIAC, the first computer ever. It is at Penn's Moore building, and as you can see, it's much larger than your PC :)

This is the Perelman Quad... not the main quad. Cool buildings, huh?

Finally, this is the College Hall. It's one of the oldest buildings on campus, and of course, the dreaded Office of Undergraduate Admissions is located here. (I can still remember the address... 1 College Hall, I believe, is the address :))

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THAT'S IT FOR PENN... now, let's go to Hanover, NH, and take a look at Dartmouth!

This is the view of Dartmouth's Southeast campus from the clock tower.

The green field with lots of people walking on it is called "The Big Green." Pretty, huh?

This is the west of Dartmouth's campus... you can see Amos Tuck School of Business building, among a few other buildings. Tuck building is the most beautiful I've ever seen... at least on a picture.

This is the live image of Dartmouth College at the time of your viewing. Soooooo coool!!!!

OK... I am sick of UChicago. I am changing my user name at Xanga if I can :P

UChicago wants me to reply to their offer of admission by Apr. 15th. YES, APRIL 15TH, NOT MAY 1ST. It's not like "Oh, Apr. 15th and we will give you priority housing." No, it's something like ...

"Although the common college reply date is May 1st, we will not be able to grant you I-20 if you do not reply to us by April 15th. Please use courier mail."

What kind of BULLSHIT is that? Well, it's OK... I am not gonna go there ANYWAY.

Dudes, just choose one for me.... Dartmouth or Penn (Wharton) ?

PLEASE JUST CHOOSE ONE AND I WILL BE A VERY HAPPY MAN BY MAY 1ST!

Okay, since you've all seen my acceptance letters, you can also take a look at my rejection letters.

Dear Chan Ho (first name cause we're Brown and we're hip):

The Brown Board of Admission has completed its evaluation of 15,000 applications and it took us half an hour to think of a sentence that would take this long to reveal your rejection. It is rather pleasurable to tell you that you are not our friend. To deny admission is a business and we have yielded an excellent profit at 70 dollars a piece with 15,000 applicants. I bet this hurts you as much as it hurts me.

The great majority of the men and women who applied to Brown this year are decent and yet, you weren't. The vast majority were able to make contributions to our college community, but clearly, you weren't. With over ten candidates for every available space, we are just too cool for you. The Board's task in selecting the members of the Class of 2007 involves throwing a dart onto a board. You landed way outside of the bullseye.

We acknowledge your accomplishments for the crap (which is Brown) that they are and want you to understand how much care we took into making sure you were a loser and how painful it is that so many losers applied to our school when so many more qualified applicants applied to Haaaaarvard.

You have my best wishes for your job at the local gas station. Our inability to select your application is probably not going to affect us a whole lot and if you do get in somewhere, it probably won't help them all that much either.

Although you'll probably kill yourself over our decision, remember that in the long run, your life is only a speck in the spectrum of the Universe. The world has many more qualified and intelligent people than you.

Sincerely, (which of course means we're serious cause we are a bunch of jokers sometimes)

Michael Goldberger - Director of Admission (which means my job is to direct you that way ::points towards Podunk!::)

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Dear Mr. Ahn (Using last name because we are better than Brown)

The Harvard Admissions Committee has completed its review of this year's freshman candidates, and I am pleased to tell you that it is impossible for us to offer you a place in our class of 2007, which I think is the most truth-revealing sentence I wrote in 90 years of my life! (Wait... I wrote 18000 of these last year too.)

I realize this decision will come as a disappointment to you. I hope that you will understand that our applicant pool was simply much more talented than you. It is a judgement of your accomplishments and not of your abilities. Please do not sue us. Of more than 21,000 students who applied to Harvard this year, most are capable of successful work here and of benefiting from Harvard. However, your personality and talents would not have diversified our student body. Having to say no to so many talented candidates is, I must say, a delightful part of working at an admissions office at Harvard.

I hope that you have understood this rejection and are working on getting your job at McDonald's. (or college application to... BROWN!! Whahahah!!) Thank you for 65 dollar application fee at Harvard.

Sincerely (which of course means this decision is not up for appeal),

William Fitzimmons- Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and the Financial Aid that you will definitely not be recieving