<p>DANGIT I MISSED ALMOST HALF OF GOSSIP GIRL. oh well <^> i’m on the final scene guys. you should be proud of me !</p>
<p>My big thing on my application was designing a curriculum for a science camp I’ve been a counselor at for 3 years and a camper for 5. It’s all about “Going Green” and I taught the class for one week–with adult supervision of course. I loved the experience and felt that I actually changed some of the campers perspectives. Now I’m teaching it as an after school course at a local magnet middle school. It’s crazy how things snowball.</p>
<p><—internship w/BSU Civil Engineering, my EC’s are pretty bad :****(</p>
<p>if there is anything that is the fatal wound in my app its probably my ECs</p>
<p>meh. my biggest things were key club, yearbook, and class of 2010… but it feels good making about 300 or 400 of the 500 people in your class scream with glee (: and yearbook takes hours…made me addicted to photoshopping!</p>
<p>i really wish stanford let us send 2 supplementary recommendations instead of 1
really really badly</p>
<p>@everyone, I’m not suggesting that everyone should leave community off, I just know that if colleges didn’t like it so much, most kids wouldn’t bother taking time to volunteer. So I didn’t want to risk community service turning into something that I did for college - I needed to know that I was doing it for myself.</p>
<p>But in no way am I suggesting that it’s wrong to put it on an application. I think doing community service is good, regardless of the reasons behind it.</p>
<p>@NJDS</p>
<p>who would be your +2?</p>
<p>who was your +1?</p>
<p>I wish you didn’t have to be a published author or an olympic athlete to get into Stanford. I’m not up for eugenics, but I think we should find a way to put those kids…somewhere else.
…
:)</p>
<p>NJDS me too! yeah i know like 2 more teachers who write amaaaaaaaaaaazing letters of rec. wouldn’t be hard to choose one more.</p>
<p>Hmm, interesting point to bring up about the extra rec. I’m planning on using the one for the guy who is in charge of that EC that I was just talking about because I’ve gone to the camp for 9+ years, plus I was a leader this past summer and plan to be next summer as well. Additionally, he’s known me pretty much my entire life and seen me mature (unless I haven’t matured!) so I figure it’ll look exceptional on the application. Yet, given the opportunity to use a second supplement rec, I have no idea who I would choose. I’ve moved around to different places every few years, so I really don’t have anyone else who has known me long enough.</p>
<p>@Dig, i think they discourage getting an additional rec from teachers. They would prefer someone who could offer additional insight as to what you do/who you are outside the classroom.</p>
<p>Hahaha Prussia!</p>
<p>I can’t relate, as I am both a published author and an Olympic athlete. As well as the founder of various charities, the donor of several organs, a famous painter with works in museums in Europe, the conqueror of several small nations, and a Stanford applicant.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Ok. Brief interruption–I legitimately just found the admissions counselor I met at a fair on Facebook. I have been in contact with him through a few emails–Friending him = creeper?</p>
<p>Haha I think you’re addressing IPadriac, Anon!
It’s like NJDS and Nitro all over again!</p>
<p>I myself am President and Dictator of a small country.</p>
<p>Is he going to be the one reviewing your app?</p>
<p>i would say a l’il lurchy either way though.</p>
<p>oh, if he accepted then whatever but if you were debating whether or not to send one, i dont think i personally would.</p>
<p>i suppose it also depends on the emails.</p>
<p>@IPadraic, I know I wouldn’t do that, and I’m betting Diivio wouldn’t either, lol.</p>
<p>But all in all, I don’t think that’s creepy, otherwise the guy wouldn’t have accepted your friend request.</p>
<p>Well, there was actually a featured discussion on that a while back, right here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/784219-friending-college-admission-officers-facebook.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/784219-friending-college-admission-officers-facebook.html</a></p>
<p>I personally wouldn’t do it just because I don’t use facebook much, but I don’t see a big problem with it.</p>
<p>oh really? i was really close to them, he was also track coach + yearbook advisor + someone i always went to with problems. i thought he seemed fit.</p>
<p>Published author/Olympic athlete? That’s small-time stuff. I’m the leader of the secret Jewish conspiracy. I also invented sex.</p>
<p>I want 2800!</p>
<p>Yeah, lame post, haha…</p>
<p>Yay, my first special number!</p>
<p>I collaborated with Al Gore to create the internet.</p>