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I bet admissions committees hate when you say you were influenced by Ayn Rand. You want something either very prestigious, or very unexpected, and Atlas Shrugged is neither. You might well be better off with fanfiction, if you can sell it with a really good essay and leave yourself a little bit of ironic detachment wiggle room.
Agreed, Rand is a total no-go for college admissions essays.
Who are some suitably high status inspirational folks to put on such essay.
Mind you college admissions here (Austrailia) are almost entirely based on high school exam scores so the information is completely useless to me!
Richard Feynman?
Oh, yeah. Him. I would be cringing as I wrote that. I'd be imagining myself rolling my eyes as I read piles of cookie cutter password guessing applications. Ick. But I'd force myself to write him anyway.
I wonder how much status you can get by dropping the name everyone drops. I suppose you at least wouldn't lose points.
This is the only inspirational thing I have ever read -- the now deleted post-movie option journals of a blind man that had his vision restored and had to teach himself how to see. http://web.archive.org/web/20040401192741/http://www.senderogroup.com/mikejournal.htm#Q1%202000
That reminds me. This guy is inspiring too! Raw badass.