does "why stanford" have to be abstract/creative?

arbitraryname
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:18:46 +0000

@IPadraic
That’s clever! Creativity does sound like a good thing here. I think a screenplay sounds like a good idea - that would be pretty cool for any of the essays.

My letter to my roommate thing was basically a letter to my roommate. Like this:

Hi,

My name is arbitrary, and I’m going to be your roommate for the next little while!
So I guess I’d better tell you about myself.
Well, first of all, blah blah
Not that creative, but I thought it was okay.

My “Why Stanford” essay first talked about basic, obvious things about Stanford. I ended it on a semi day-in-the-life sort of thing - “I imagine myself living at Stanford, doing this blah blah, blah blah blah”. Creative is good, but don’t stress over it. As long as the true whitecadillac flows out onto the screen, you’ll be fine.