Hi @Southoftheriver. I’m not sure that I specifically considered what they were looking for, as with any other selective insitution, I assumed it was a dedicated and passionate student. I was more interested in how Stanford would fit me. In my application, I talked about the program I had founded that dealt with poverty and education inequality, and the desire to continue understand those things through certain departments at Stanford, and that is something the adcoms talked about.
Here’s the exact quote: “her reason for wanting to attend Stanford is clear— few other universities have a center dedicated to researching poverty and inequality, and this is a clear interest of hers.”