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12-15-2008, 02:10 AM
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#16 | | New Member
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^ lol.
Apparently it works better than working your *** off for 4 years in your courses.
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12-15-2008, 02:11 AM
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#17 | | Member
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12-15-2008, 02:18 AM
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#18 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Berkeley 2013
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dang, I regret not applying. my GPA/SAT isn't that good but my ECs are pretty awesome and I think I can write a good essay
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12-15-2008, 02:20 AM
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#19 | | New Member
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What were your stats fortify?
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12-15-2008, 02:33 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: India/Singapore (Class of 2014 Applicant)
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erm, guys, 4.0s mean nothing at all so stop freaking out if someone gets in with a 3.4. anyone who applies to stanford won't be some dumb nonsense. obviously a 3.4 with a difficult courseload is wayyyy better than taking an easy courseload and getting a 4.
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12-15-2008, 03:07 AM
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#21 | | Member
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rofl stone you have one bad temper. Not everything is about studying... Essays should be very important because academics are just stats, there is no personality. I know so many people at my school who work their @ss off. They stay up studying until 2 like every single day, but they are not that smart they are just studious. College is not all about education. It's more about experiencing different ways of life and growing as an individual. Get over yourself. I admire Stanford for looking past people's grades and SAT scores.
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12-15-2008, 04:18 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Tufts '13!
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Yeah, but why should a personality shown in an essay dictate whether you get in or not? I know it adds to diversity and ****, but does an essay really say whether you do or do not have that personality...? Doesn't it really just reveal whether you can orchestrate some 1000 character short answer well enough to gain applause?
Imo, if writing a "good" essay means writing one from the heart, then that's fine. But truly, what writing a "good" essay has become is writing one with a complex idea, complex metaphors, and other complexities that are really unnecessary... it doesn't always reveal personality. I know some smart kids with bubbly/intellectual/absolutely wonderful personalities that can't execute well-written or "good" essays - should that keep them out of Stanford?
Obviously they use interviews to sort out this type of problem out... yet interviews are not weighed the same as essays.
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12-15-2008, 04:54 PM
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#23 | | Member
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^ i agree with you. Interviews should be weighted more and that essays aren't the best way to show personality, I am just saying academic stats are not that efficient to show the person who you really are.
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12-15-2008, 05:01 PM
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#24 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Stanford
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lmao I love reading the posts here. I won't even start to discuss the blinding ignorance in some of them.
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12-15-2008, 11:52 PM
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#25 | | Member
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OP:
I know you think you got in by exhibiting some superhuman passion, but that's simply not true. Amongst good runners (good, not elite), 50 miles a week is standard. And I wouldn't elevate your running know-how above the average baseball stat enthusiast or dedicated football fan-player. Even if you had ran yourself into the ground and memorized the Nike Footlocker roster, this EC is decent but wouldn't have given you an edge unless you were state champ or the likes.
I would be real interested to read your essay. Otherwise, I'll have to attribute this one to pure luck.
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12-16-2008, 12:14 AM
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#26 | | Junior Member
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lmao, stone is hilarious
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12-16-2008, 01:37 AM
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#27 | | Member
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I'm guessing everyone applying to stanford has a pretty hard course load
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12-16-2008, 06:38 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
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To jennyx, do you mind sending me your essays?
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12-16-2008, 06:52 PM
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#29 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007
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lol @ stone.
stanford is a crapshoot, but thats what makes it cool. I hate the retardedness of "studying you ass off". Ie. the SAT is a study your ass off kind of deal. If you have the patience to study, then you can get a high score. Its apparent to me that Stanford doesn't care if you are able to "brute force" your scores. It appears they want unique, passionate individuals, not driven by the same things everyone else is.
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12-16-2008, 10:35 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Cornell '13
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jennyx, don't send ur essays as people will distort/copy them. Just write your own essays guys; if your asking, then you obviously don't have true passion for something and don't fit into Stanford.
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To the OP who thinks 4.0 GPA is what gets you into college, you sir are wrong. Colleges, especially Stanford, don't want people who only study and get good grades, they want people who can not only maintain good grades but are also outgoing and will contribute to the campus.
Just my opinion on things.
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