<p>irock: CCY.</p>
<p>(I’ll post my blurb later.)</p>
<p>-Ender</p>
<p>I wrote my first essay on my invovlement with theater and how it helped me be prepared for when things go wrong. Also brought in speaking at assemblies as Student Body Pres. Second essay was on freedom of speach and how i currently think its being curtailed. Worked in a rally that I organized in opposition of a measure that would end school when Spring Break started for the PIL and also cut sports. Roommate essay was short and sweat, how i’m not into drinking but like having a good time and prefer to do it in different ways that i percieve to be more fun. Long essay was about Ultimate Frisbee. I just tryed to show my passion for the game and how it has influenced me as a person to step up my game in all the areas of my life.</p>
<p>I’m really interested in going into politics, I tend to see myself as a leader. I love being competative and hope to play for Stanford’s #3 ranked ultimate team. If I can’t go to Stanford I’m looking at William & Mary or U of O (both of which happen to have good ultimate teams). Thats one thing nice about having kind of a special interest sport, it makes it easy to mark colleges of the list. I really want to play some highly competative ultiamte because I have to move up to the adult level to get it here so I made it a priority for all my schools. Of course I loved Stanford before I started getting into frisbee so it was always my number 1.</p>
<p>First essay was about playing piano. I wrote playing a famous Norwegian song for my relatives in Norway a few summers ago, and how music helps me to connect with other people/cultures. The second essay was kinda wierd, but my favorite. I wrote about this strange lump that appeared on my arm one day and how I had to get it removed, but was really interested by the surgery instead of scared of it. Then I related it to how I want to go into biology/medicine. Third essay was about a trip to Japan and a kid I met who was obsessed with Back to the Future. I talked about how I am excited to find common interests with my roommate or something like that…Long one was about my relationship with a little Native American kid I met on a church trip (I know, it sounds cliche, but I think it turned out pretty original) and some funny experiences we had, and how the relationship motivated me to succeed in other areas of my life.</p>
<p>Interests: math, science, foreign language, piano, trumpet, tennis, pingpong, movies, videogames…</p>
<p>I submitted a piano recording. Did anyone else here submit any recordings? what were they? how do you think recordings affect the admission decision?</p>
<p>I was going to submit a recording too, but decided against it because I’m not going to major in music. My counselor told me to do it as a “tip factor”…oh well, I was lazy. 
I’m pretty sure they could only help your admission decision unless you completely blew your tape and sent it in, which, knowing the kinds of people on this forum, I am sure you didn’t. So don’t worry, you will be fine.</p>
<p>yea, I was going to send slides, but since I’m not going to major in Art I got a little lazy with my portfolio. Besides, they just send that off to the departments to be crticized by the pros…</p>
<p>Essays…the first one was on a summer research thing, next one was on my adoration for tiny particles (and how it lets me cheat and do physics and biology at the same time), roommate one was on being a Republican in California. The long one was about Steppenwolf (the book), but I don’t know how well it worked (even though–or maybe because–I worked for months on it).</p>
<p>My interests are split down the middle. I’ve got the really “modern” side–I want to be a physicist (but I love all the sciences so much that I’ll probably end up doing something really interdisciplinary, which is one of the reasons I like Stanford), I love filming and editing videos, I debate politics. But there my personality shifts into the more traditional, because I’m a Republican (so it’s a good thing I like to argue, eh?), I love old, country/folk-tinged music (like Bob Dylan and Neil Young), and I crochet and knit.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to get back to those gosh-darned UC essays. I love to write, but college essays are so hard…</p>
<p>My first essay was about gaining confidence and communication skills through debate, and how debate has helped me prepare for a career in math/science. I managed to weave in my experience with research this year and show how debate made presentations SO much easier, also hinted at leadership skills. My second essay was about research, talked a bit about perception and math learning and why I think it’s really interesting. (I’m still a bit worried that the person who reads my app might not find it all that interesting though…) My roommate one was about my experience on Varsity Badminton in my first game where we lost really badly. The importance of friendship, the idea of trying new things, and facing potential embarassment as well as–to some extent-- facing a fear of failure all are discussed/hinted at. I thought we were supposed to talk about some experience for this one, no? Most of the other people on this board sound as if they just wrote a random note, which was what I had wanted to do because that could have been SO much more fun/interesting. Oh well. My extended essay was a typical lunch-time conversation with my friends, showing how I love to blur the line between work and fun and how I really do have a passion for learning both inside and outside of the classroom. My friends/teachers who have read it think it’s really funny, but maybe you have to know who I’m talking about to fully understand the humor. </p>
<p>In terms of interests, I’m a bit like entropicgirl in that my interests fall all over the place. I also love all the sciences, especially physics. I love math, and will probably major in it. I like piano, singing, been in debate/MUN for years, also do math team and philosophy club and community service… really enjoy all of that. I like virtually everything academic, except perhaps all the little details in history. I like the big picture in history, I think that’s really interesting and useful, I just don’t care as much who did what where and when, so long as I have a sense of the causes/effects of what happened. I really like psychology too, been doing research in cognitive science for a while which I enjoy a lot.</p>
<p>marlgirl, your essays sound really good! Would you consider posting them?</p>
<p>I hope they were! I actually thought that from the description of them they sounded rather dull. I’ll happily post them in early January, but not before then. Paranoid? Possibly. I prefer to call it excessively cautious</p>
<p>That’s okay. Paranoia is healthy. But good luck to you and all of us other SCEA people.</p>
<p>Thanks! You too!</p>
<p>my picture essay was about how I got to meet Patch Adams over the summer, and how this medical forum made me want to be a doctor. I connected it to various experiences over the years. My teachers thought it was good. My roommate one was my fav. I talked about how I’m not the typical girl-how I got my nose pierced but I’m still like this goody-goody. My intellectual one, was about this message board we have in Gov’t and how its intellectually stimulating ect… and the last one was about my Indian dance, and how its my most imp, activity. I’ve been doing it for 10 yrs, and I figure it sets me apart (same with the nose piercing essay) My scores are not as good as everyone’s I got a 750V, and a 690M 
770 Math IIC think they’ll see that and know my math was just stupid? 740 Writing, taking Physics in Dec (i know it’s late for EA, I had issues getting it done early) whatever</p>
<p>Can anyone please help me with the roomate essay. I dont know how to write it. Like do i write about an incident that happened to me, or like introduce myself. I’m so confused.</p>
<p>Thanx…</p>
<p>There’s no right way to do it. Don’t be fooled by the word “jot.” In other words don’t say…</p>
<p>"Hey bro-</p>
<p>I went out to score a six-pack, be back in a few."</p>
<p>But I think it’s okay to use a silghtly informal tone. I wrote about my brother being my only other roomate and somehow worked in mentioning the name of a professor up at Stanford that I want to study under. </p>
<p>-Ender</p>
<p>for my roommate: i wrote about a time when I was an ELF for the Oakland Tribune Holiday Parade (second largest float parade in NA to Macy’s)… i was literally the front of the parade and I had to wear tights and such,.</p>
<p>hey thanx a lot for ure advice…
just another question…does it have to be before you meet the roomate, or that ure already in college and the persons ure roommate so u already know her…</p>
<p>It doesn’t specify, so I guess you can choose. It’s probably easier to write one to a roommate you haven’t met, but you could certainly get away writing it to the roommate once you’ve met him/her. In terms of what to say, Stanford says they want you to basically write “something else about you” (yeah, so helpful!) or to tell them something about you that they wouldn’t know to ask.</p>
<p>I wrote my first essay about working for Howard Dean and what that taught me about working with people and leadership. My second essay was about Biomedical ethics, a class I took this summer and how that got me more excited to go into medicine because it is a discipline that is constantly changing. My roommate essay was about baking cookies for my diabetic grandfather and how it taught me about succeeding in something I didn’t think I could do and how was an important experience because it was something I could do for him. My long essay is one that I promised to keep private out of respect for a friend. So hopefully me essays work and I get in. A few more weeks until we know.</p>
<p>Hmm… been reading these boards since the summer, but I haven’t joined the fray yet. I guess now’s as good a time as any?</p>
<p>I’m a male from Northern VA, boards are 1540 (780 V 760 M), 800/800/740 IIs(though they have a 660 for writing, not my Nov 740… I think I will fax them)</p>
<p>The first essay I talked about why I love Odyssey of the Mind, but also about how I really wanted to start an OotM club at Stanford. It’s definitely true, and I think it’d be a great place for the club. My second was about telomerase and how I’m fascinated with the fact that its presence is a halmark of cancer and its absence is basically what causes us to be mortal, and how that inspires me to do research. My roommate essay was very informal about how I sleep behind the couch, and how my roommate can have my bed, and then expanding on how I like change and am very dynamic.</p>
<p>For the long essay I wrote a little story/essay about my freshman year self seeing and talking to my senior year self. The picture was of me in a closet reading a book and I talked about how I changed from being powerfully introverted to more of an extrovert, but still need quiet time. </p>
<p>I guess that’s me, in a nutshell even smaller than the real app! Here’s hoping - good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>-Eric</p>
<p>im so glad i never knew this thread, or rather this forum existed for then i shall never hv applied…sigh if only y’all knew my stats :s</p>