Rejected Stanford SCEA: Chances at Harvard?

landry37
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:51:50 +0000

Vividi, or whoever you are (by the way I realize that I’m a tad late on replying to this, but I think that in reading this, loose ends may be met):
Stanford may have accepted you or at least deferred you to RD round

IF

Your passion for Economics stood out (what did the Harvard Summer Program focus on? Econ?)
Or you could’ve made it stand out in many other ways:
But at Stanford, the admissions office values innovation above anything else in an application.

Therefore, if you could’ve shown your Economics passion in a different, think-outside-the-box sort of way, and shown THAT come through in at least one of your essays, and maybe shown that it was your ‘important’ EC or at least one of them, you would have likely joined Stanford’s Freshman Class of 2013, and could be enjoying the Californian sunset in the midst of some stunning architecture.

And if your passion was of something else, then replace that word wherever ‘Economics’ appears in my post.

Austin

Ps. That crap you shot about the instruments and how they made you ‘happy’ about seven different occasions–'tis not getting by anyone. If you’re so happy about an instrument, then DEMONSTRATE a challenge involving it.

Gosh, it really upsets me when people with such gleaming academic profiles can’t spot the gaping holes in their applications.

Good day.