<p>Holocene… I wish I were more like you. Sadly, I had no idea high school students could even <em>do</em> research until I discovered this part of CC, by which point it was too late to apply for internships or whatever. Yes, I realize I sound pathetic writing that, because it’s probably not true; it just felt like it at the time. It’s even worse because I go to school in Marin, so in an admissions officer’s eyes, I pretty much have no excuse for not taking advantage of San Francisco. (It wouldn’t have been easy in reality, but it sure looks like it on a map.)</p>
<p>Welp. I’m not gonna overthink it. Whatever will be, will be. And congratulations on Stanford! That’s fabulous. I just stalked your post history, and your stats (especially ECs) are incredible. I’m taking the Zen route at this point, so if I don’t get into the PLME, at least there are worthy people like you to fill my spot, haha. And if you don’t make it either, well, Stanford’s not a bad fallback ;)</p>
<p>@stupiddorkyidiot, I know exactly how you feel. I didn’t discover CC until this last summer (right before my senior year), and until then, I had no concept that high school students could do research or self study APs and had no idea what things such as the Intel or Siemens competitions were. I guess that’s just something you’ve got to deal with when you go to a noncompetitive public high school…</p>
<p>Thank you for reassuring me… Even though a few more percentage points won’t help a mediocre middle-class redhead with no research experience and semi well-written essays :P</p>
<p>@sjs - no, I realized that when I looked at the admit rate, I stupidly counted the number of matriculating students rather than the actual number of accepted students, which put the rate at 2.7%. Figured it out when I looked at the numbers again. </p>
<p>Regarding the AAMC statistic, I’m assuming that’s artificially low due to the number of PLME matriculants?</p>
<p>Anybody else think that Brown supplement was the most thorough/best supplement that they wrote? I actually had a lot of fun applying to Brown lol</p>
<p>Yeah, I really liked the supplement and thought mine turned out really well. I had a really hard time with the PLME questions, though. A lot of the topics in the two essays kind of overlapped so I wasn’t sure if I should repeat myself or assume they knew what I was talking about.</p>
<p>I wanted to love the Brown supplement, but I was too worried about trying to fit everything into the character limit. Looking back, it doesn’t really capture my personality adequately I think the Yale supplement was my favorite.</p>
<p>all my responses were thought-out and comprehensive BUT when i modified a crucial (“UNIVERISTY”) spelling error on my first question, the common app didnt save it.
yeah. SO just thought id share that with you all so you feel better about yourselves.</p>
<p>I had fun with both. Brown’s supplement really forced me to think. Yale’s allowed me to be humorous and UChicago’s required excessive creativity.</p>
<p>By FAR browns supplement was the best! I had so much fun showing my unique personality through the short answers… It’s not like they wanted to know everything about you, they only have a sentence or two! I’d rather do a longer essay, but brown was a nice change</p>
<p>Definitely agree. Brown, UChicago, and Yale - my favorite supplements of this whole process. Also really enjoyed the Williams supplement essay but I’m guessing there aren’t many cross-over applicants from here to Williams?</p>
I think the Yale supplement was my favorite.</p>