My personal statement was about my interest in engineering. I combined some of my other interests into the story and showed my creativity. I explained how my interest in photography, cooking, and engineering were one in the same and intertwined. I started out comparing the three aspects and explaining how they were one in the same. In the end I explained how the essay was a very good essay.

Asked why Columbia?

Wrote about the city, the people, and the opportunities.

I think columbia is the most challenging experience - in the sense that you will at one point or another question yourself, who you are, what you are doing, than at the other schools. you will constantly be pushed by your peers, your professors, but also the realities of the city where interning at a legit place is very possible, by the controversy that undoubtedly will arrive as columbia grows out into the neighborhood and things that are never discussed at other schools to a great extent are daily realities. i just think from the point of view of 'living...