<p>For me, I just like the attitudes of the student body there. I visited most of the Ivies and I felt that most of the kids had an undeserved sense of superiority about them because they went to Harvard, Princeton, etc. In fact, the only Ivy I’m applying to is Yale. I just couldn’t see myself at any of those schools, even if I fit in academically.<br>
Stanford is different in that you get the California easygoingness, rather than cutthroat academic competition. Don’t get me wrong, Stanford is very competitive, but I felt like I would just fit in better with the students there. Don’t take my word for it though, go out and visit all the colleges you plan on applying to. YMMV.</p>
<p>I’m about to send in my application!
So exciting(:
Double or single-space the essays?</p>
<p>you can surf in the morning and go up to the mountains to ski in the afternoon.</p>
<p>but really- California, the student body easygoingness, and good engineering athletics and weather.</p>
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Same here. Plus the laid-back, almost mellow vibe of Stanford really appealed to me</p>
<p>I wore Stanford diapers. I’ve literally grown up with the word being tossed around my family like some big inside joke that I was always excluded from. I knew I was applying from the very start, no matter what my grades were like. </p>
<p>What my Stanford alum relatives don’t understand though was that it was much easier back then than it is now :/</p>
<p>Dude. Stanford makes diapers.
(te he he)</p>
<p>I wish you could post pictures here. Maybe they were like diaper covers. Idk they were like plaid that said on the back like “I’m down with Stanford” or something. I’ll have to ask my momma for the pictures</p>
<p>When I was younger, I wanted to be an actress, so my parents told me I should go to Yale because it has an amazing drama deptarment. My response: “that sounds like the name of a fish, its thirty minutes away, and it’s probably a terrible school if you want me to go there.” hahahaha. I was dumb. and then my grandma was like “It’s okay, you’re going to be like me and go to Stanford.” SO basically I’ve known I was applying since I was five years old. (and I wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Stanford… my grandparents met there.)</p>
<p>Guess what everyone! I got an 800 on the spanish SAT II! And I’m not a native speaker 
I’m sososo happy</p>
<p>haha i unfortunately missed one on my spanish subject test…and i speak fluent spanish. i got my little score report thing and figures i missed the one where you had to find an alternate name to the passage. </p>
<p>… erg</p>
<p>I guess I’m kinda lucky because I went to high school in South America over the summer?? </p>
<p>crmichi what Spanish do you speak?? (Mexican, American, Cuban etc etc)</p>
<p>Congrats minniemouse!! I got a 790 on the Spanish subject test as a non-native speaker, and I’m really happy about it, but also slightly miffed that I might have been one point away from an 800 lol. :D</p>
<p>Hahaha well my mom and her family were all raised in Mexico for their childhood so I guess I have a faint Mexican twang but since my father’s family is all from Chile, I adapt that accent as soon as I go down there.</p>
<p>You can hear me saying phrases like “cachai” or “estai” or “regio” if I go down south, but phrases like “huero” and “padre” and “puta madre” <– my fave</p>
<p>haha chilean spanish is so dirty it’s my fave! That’s where I was over the summer. When I got there I was so confused because everyone use really sexual words in everyday language…</p>
<p>No me digas! We got latinas in the house???</p>
<p>I have the exact same SAT I score as last time… but my superscore went up by 60 points. 8D so happy.</p>
<p>I used to think that the essays were graded by computer, but now I am firmly convinced that they pick scores out of a hat. They gave me a 12 when I didn’t even finish. I still had half a page to go! I mean, I’m not going to call them up and argue with them, but- seriously?</p>
<p>yay that’s great wulfran!!</p>
<p>And ms.doc… I’d say I’m more of an honorary latina… I actually wrote my roommate essay about that :P</p>
<p>Hhaah I was going to write my common app essay about how people don’t usually perceive me as a latina (I definitely got the German genes bad time - green eyes, blonde hair, no boobs) but I still consider myself one. Then I stopped after two paragraphs and noticed it was a bit too fluffernutter. </p>
<p>@wulfran… I COMPLETELY AGREE. I’ve heard of some wack essays getting really high scores and then like kids from my school (pretty damn good school I’d say) never get higher than a 9. </p>
<p>@minnie: I LOOOVE the word “pololo” meaning boyfriend</p>
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<p>Hahaha. You guys should check out the thread where somebody posted a completely BS essay that miraculously got a score of 11; it’s a riot!</p>
<p>That’s funny because I was explaining pololear to my spanish teacher today! My favorites are flaites and pokemones because they’re so fascinating… The only way I can describe a flaite is gangster/ghetto mixed with the 90’s? And pokemones are like emo kids with piercings who like to dye their hair black. Sooo weird thank goodness the emo trend is kinda fading out in the US</p>
<p>I think my dream joke job would be an AP grader because of the random stuff people write (like on the AP calc exam last year there was a question about elephants so this kid I knew drew an elephant farm because he didn’t know how to answer the question…)</p>