What is up with all the picky details? -_-

limetime
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:10:43 +0000

As an RD’er, I just started to look at the Stanford application instructions, and there seems to be… a lot.

I mean, I know I’m complaining, but for teacher recs alone, there’s like a thousand nitpicky details we have to follow! Teachers must be from two different subjects. Download teacher rec 1 and teacher rec 2 separately. Make sure your common app number is on there. Must be 9x12 envelope. Please use the mailing labels we provide. Do not fold the forms. Do not staple the pages together.

Add to that all the essays and short answers we have to do, as well as instructions on them – just looking at them makes me stressed out. All my other schools have nowhere near the level of specific instructions that Stanford has. I almost feel like they imposed so many regulations just to be able to say “Aha, this person didn’t follow that one instruction on the essays! REJECT!” or something like that.

Anyone else annoyed/frustrated about this? :P