Need URGENT input on my Intellectual Vitality Essay

stressedasian152
Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:30:36 +0000

Honestly, I would try either a different experience or a different approach to this topic (seeing as it’s due in 6.5 hours)

“Reflect on an idea or experience that has been important to your intellectual development”

Running a business has taught you how to run a business. That doesn’t generalize to the rest of your development very well, in my opinion. Just an opinion, but I feel like Stanford is looking for something more overarching; something that fundamentally changed how you approach the world, not just something you learned. (As an extreme example, you shouldn’t write about how a physics class taught you that F=ma and that to move things faster you need more force.) While it was probably a meaningful experience, you need to generalize the effect on your development more in my opinion, and spend less time giving the details of what you did. It’s an essay to answer their prompt, not a plug on a business you started; you can slide that into extra info or something.