Please help answer my Stanford application questions!

henryvli
Sun, 20 May 2012 22:23:09 +0000

A laundry list of ECs will certainly not help you at all. My suggestion to you is, if you are an extraordinary applicant, you WILL have an extraordinary achievement that makes you extraordinary and separates you from the crowd. This is something that comes from the inside out, not the other way around.

But most people aren’t extraordinary, and all the top schools contain most of those kids. I’d say you shouldn’t be too worried. There can be only one Bill Gates and just like there can be only one first black president (and first gay one too according to Newsweek).