Stanford-Chance Unique Applicant

Aj39vn23cf2
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:33:58 +0000

Dungareedoll: I agree - my comments are harsh. I agree - my youth and inexperience are easily discernible because of my austere, callow writing style. Please don’t feel sad that I’m harsh because it’s a personal choice on my part, which is not something you should feel pity for. Thank you for acknowledging that I was correct on some levels, but is it truly so wrong to be brutally honest? I’ve looked at thousands of replies to chance threads, results threads, and advice threads. I’ve looked at data sets for admitted applicants to almost every single top school. My post is the consolidation of all of the knowledge I have gleaned from lurking on the Internet for many years. Something else I’ve learned: oftentimes the best pill is the harshest pill. Sure, oftentimes the pill can be sugercoated, but that’s something I obviously can’t do because of my youth and inexperience. I hope that someone who has had many, many more years of life experience than I have can look past the lack of sugarcoating and accept the advice I give. I don’t ‘truly’ have experience in this subject, yet, but even if I did, would it matter? My college admissions process is going to be fundamentally different from pebatty’s son’s; while we are all not unique in terms of college admissions, we ARE all unique in terms of college admissions results. What works for one applicant may not work for another. What I see as the best possible way to increase the chance of success in college admissions is websites like this one that allow users to collect hundreds upon hundreds of college admission stories. Even if I had my own singular story, why would that change the advice I had given? I would have my own personal anecdotes to add in, yes, but that’s not the type of thing that makes first-class advice, because only the generalities can be applied to other people - but the generalities are something that can be garnered from collecting stories from websites like these.