EC Passion, Padding, and Questions Galore :)

zenkoan
Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:06:46 +0000

Passionfruit, you could delete a couple of things, but I don’t think that is very important. More essential is to make sure your essays highlight your strongest interests in a coherent way, and that you discuss how you would continue to pursue these interests as a member of the Stanford community (ideally in ways that would reciprocally benefit both you and Stanford). The goal is to help the people reading your application visualize you as a unique and valuable contributing member of the Stanford community. This advice applies to all highly-selective colleges, all of whom are trying to assemble the “best class” they can from a vast sea of applications. Good luck!