<p>in your post you come off as if you’re so much wiser than the people who were rejected…but there’s no real difference between you and them. i’m sure that many others put “passion” into their applications and did get rejected. btw, i was admitted for class of 2012…just so i don’t sound like a bitter reject or something. </p>
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<p>^are these necessarily mutually exclusive?</p>
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<p>^what’s the typical essay? (i really don’t know, since i haven’t seen what others have written, only what i had written)</p>
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<p>^this is blatantly not true. there are many people who would fit in at stanford who didn’t get in.</p>