Subject line: Eager registrant whom contacted Western University in winter, currently Juggernaut student attempting to add to your finance program.
About once every 2-3 months, I receive an unsolicited letter from someone who would like to study at The University of Western Ontario. Often the letter is from someone hoping to do graduate work in economics and asking if I have some funding I can provide (all this despite my having been emeritus for five years).
The letter received by many of us earlier this week beats all the previously received letters. It is reproduced in full below (with the sender's name and some personal information deleted). A few spots each year should be reserved for applicants like this one, just to see what happens.
Background: The UWO sports teams are known as "The Mustangs", and Amit Chakma referred to in the email is the UWO president [see this and this].
To all of my future acquaintances that this does concern,Firstly, thank you, you are an elite group at an elite school and time cannot be wasted. My name is Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx, I am zzzzz years old, proud of my name, and I am from [EE: some other city in Canada]. I enrolled at YYYYY University during the 2014-2015 academic season and now I am currently enrolled in reputable university preparatory courses. These courses include Intro to General Chemistry(XXXXX University), physics(YYYYY University), and precalculus-plus(YYYYY University).(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)During the 2014-2015 academic year I incurred excusable academic issues which I have now been advised with positive outlook by career counselling to have used as reason clear my unsavory academic transcript. It is all a complete excuse and i'm going to use that excuse in order to attain my CFA at a copiously reputable school. I have decided I want to become a chartered financial analyst after my first year of political science, within this year I explored capitalism and realized the most comfortable fit for me within this political system is to understand the methods in which all political power is obtained.(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)I grew in love with the mysterious aura an outstandingly non-ordinary essence of investing when I began reading a large amount of books to stay on a scholastic path during my time off last year. Teach yourself Investing with 24 easy lessons was my first book on the topic. It was so utterly hilarious how many times they suggested I go ahead and invest after chapter 13, 15, or whichever it may have been. To truly attack the stock markets you need to be bred to challenge wolves. Benjamin Graham's intelligent investor as suggested by Warren Buffet was necessary, Think and Grow Rich is surely a major building block of a financially optimized mindset as well. I read somewhere around 15 books on the topic, one repeating name on many informative reads was "Peter Lynch".(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)PWC is a reputable corporation which released a report in February 2015 http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/the-economy/assets/world-in-2050-february-2015.pdf, this report projected China's GDP to land around sixty to seventy trillion and the United State's GDP to land around thirty to forty trillion in 2050. Afterwards ETF's such as IShares MSCI China Small-Cap returned upwards of 30% in a span of three months. This was my first broad view of the method of investing, how intricate, and based on many variables it truly can be.(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)Through my search for a degree I liked I chose initially engineering due to the fact it produces most millionaires.Thus I am currently finishing up a nine hour study session of physics and sending along this email. I am completely capable of attending a fantastic engineering school, XXXXX University for Mineral Resource engineering, or attending ZZZZZ for financial engineering. That being said, I enjoy business and I believe my life would be absolutely perfect at what is in my opinion the best school in Canada, Western University, as researched and suggested by close friends. I have researched Western University extensively, I know it is all it's hyped up to be, and [EE: personal information deleted].(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)I am the most serious, determined, focused, and outright dedicated student you could receive. I may not arrive perfect, but obedience after obedience is how you perfect something, how you become successful. If some magical, and it would be magical I must say, if through a magical way I was able to be enrolled for September into your first entry DAN school, then move on to my specialization in finance or possibly entrepreneurship, I would literally fall out of my seat into a puddle of utter infinitesimal joy. I haven't currently been able to gather means to apply to the OUAC or I would have an application in, I often walk across the city to the library to prepare for my current path which is engineering in September. If given the thumbs up by any faculty at Western University, the best university in Canada, to apply and have a great chance of acceptance, I would send you along a biography, a resume, and agree to clean the halls for fifty hours a week to begin in September.(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)My high school average lies somewhere around 72%, that being said I by August 20th have three exceptional marks in physics, chemistry, and pre-calculus, which were very condensed and add credibility. I also believe my IQ to be somewhere among the top 10% of your students and guarantee you the only thing accepting me on such whim would do to any of you is give you a really feeling. I will enter every classroom looking for the alpha student and competing with them, I will join any society I can and hopefully prepare myself to work within an investment bank, or at least gain the financial literacy to pursue my own company without economic downfall. Goldman Sachs workers probably had to impress, and so I have to impress. Give me this chance and you will likely read about it in a book someday, I kid you not I have had my physics teacher this summer suggest to me to write one.(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)I am an intelligent investor and i'm asking anyone who has been so outrageously courteous as to read this far to be one themselves. Invest your time and a bit of effort to gain a premier student, you will turn an unsure world into a wonderland, yes school as a wonderland, and I apologize if i'm being too wordy but the words that would come out of my mouth if accepted are insurmountable and so I must give insight. Western University, the decision is yours, if i'm accepted to Goldman Sachs I will send diagnostics of the trajectory back as they say in physics.(GO MUSTANGS!)(SALUTE PRESIDENT AMIT CHAKMA)Western University, honorable faculty members, thank you for reading, please inform me of any possibility to turn myself into the most fully agile student I could ever become. Your school will prepare me for things of a substantial magnitude.Sincerely,Xxxxx X. Xxxx