<p>I applied last week RD, but i send my scores on the 16th right after i found out about my deferral from my EA school. however, stanford still says they havent recieved my scores! what do i do?</p>
<p>relax. my scores were officially processed on nov. 7 or something for EA. as long as you have collegeboard records that you did send them, they’re in. it just takes them a couple days to file everything under your app and stuff :)</p>
<p>Guys, I wanted to ask something that may have been answered before…
The letter to roommate is usually answered by telling or showing your quirks, and it is usually humorous in nature. Mine was pretty serious, and just talked about one trait of mine. Also my intellectual vitality was dead serious.
Do schools like stanford look down at such serious answers to pretty quirky short questions?</p>
<p>Chickybugger, keep checking that Axxess website. For the longest time, Stanford said they hadn’t processed my scores, even though I sent them back in September. When I checked this morning, it finally said they’ve been processed. Hang in there!
Eatyoualive, it’s whatever take best reflects YOUR personality. If a light-hearted and humorous take to the questions isn’t your style, you shouldn’t be faking it to make Stanford like you more. They want to see your point of view. :)</p>
<p>Eatyoualive,</p>
<p>Now that we’ve all submitted our applications, I have no reservations about sharing my essay topics. My roommate letter was somewhat serious, and I stated that “I do not care who you are, but do not mistake my frank tone for loathing. I will not based my judgement of you on your personal convictions.”</p>
<p>In the intellectual vitality essay, I reflected on the concept of negative infinity. It was also somewhat serious, but that is the way I naturally write!</p>
<p>My roommate essay was my only humorous one. For the intellectual vitality essay, I reflected on Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Do you think that would be well-received? It was rather serious.</p>
<p>My roommate essay was about my nicknames, my love for music, and my love of talking. Lighthearted and fairly comical. </p>
<p>Intellectual Vitality was about my interest in infectious disease (mainly Ebola)</p>
<p>What Matters was about ignorance and my desire to be taken seriously even as a youngin’. </p>
<p>I thought the supplements were fairly easy and was really reflective of who I am as a person…</p>
<p>Agreed. Excellent Supplemental questions.</p>
<p>Intellectual Vitality: Talked about my History Day experience</p>
<p>Roommate: Top 4 Reasons You’ll Hate Me & Top 5 Reasons You’ll Love Me</p>
<p>What Matters to Me & Why: Discussed my penchant for asking questions, how I need to know how and why something happened, not just what.</p>
<p>My roommate letter was rather strange, but it was still serious. The whole thing was just a warning to my roommate not to panic if he didn’t see me for hours, because most probably I was out walking…and the whole essay talked about why I loved to walk.</p>
<p>Intellectual Vitality was about financial crisis…very serious. I thought about going weird with this, but I wanted to be very honest about what really made me think about economics, so I just went this is cliched topic…</p>
<p>What matters: My shoes, went all philosophical here. I really liked this.</p>
<p>Oh, forgot to mention: My “what matters” essay I talked about the flawed status of achievements, and how their merit is only based on people’s perception of them.</p>
<p>Forgive my explanation, as it really is more than that. I just had trouble finding a way to roughly explain it.</p>
<p>^ sounds like a great answer.</p>
<p>I’m not sure why it matters to know what everyone wrote, but Eatyoualive, I also wrote about the financial crisis for my “intellectual vitality” essay!</p>
<p>My other two essays were extremely casual and light-hearted; I couldn’t hold back my excitement for Stanford! :D</p>
<p>I seriously just had fun writing my supplements!</p>
<p>My roommate one was about how I’ve slept through an ambulance, how I’m a night owl, my name, and some other random stuff - it’s a bit disjointed, but I really like it! It was really informal though and light.</p>
<p>Intellectual vitality was how I learned to fail in 6th grade and my outlook on failing changed after that.</p>
<p>Why was a bit existentialist in tone, about how the things that I’m expected to say matter to me aren’t necessarily it, it’s what I personally give meaning to.</p>
<p>definitely liked the supplement questions, though I struggled with the what matters to you question (ended up talking about making decisions independent of others opinions). my topics were pretty bleh compared to yours; you guys are really creative!</p>
<p>ahhhhh i want to go to stanford so badly :/</p>
<p>Not to make you insane, Miss Pumpkin, but Howard Gardner’s at Harvard, but I’m not sure the Stanford Admissions people will find that offensive!</p>
<p>It’s very interesting to see what everyone chose to write about. My intellectual vitality was about this seminar that I attended on Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems and how it opened my eyes to the intricacies of mathematics. Roommate was funny, it was about how I sleepwalk. What Matters was going to be about my raging feminist attitude but since that ended up being a rant, I wrote about a choral piece I once sung called “If Music Be the Food of Love” and how that song made me realize that music is very much a guiding force in my life.</p>
<p>So i guess, I wont be getting in Stanford after all. I just saw that my common app eca short answer had its last two words cut off, even though it was under the character limit.</p>
<p>This is it. </p>
<p>I sent this to so many good colleges.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about the words being cut off. I’m sure it will be obvious to the readers. Sh@@@ happens. There’s a LOT more to your app than that short answer essay which, in my case, was clearly the weakest link. Might have benefited from losing the last three words…hmmmm</p>
<p>I really enjoyed all this writing! So nice to see, that everyone wrote about different things! On the intelectual vitality essay I talked about James S. Fishkin’s model of deliberative democracy and Habermas’ works on public philosophy and on Rorty’s thoughts on the differences between public and private philosophy and how they changed my view on politics and how these models are falsely represented, although they’re idealized, in Western politics (Germanic-Roman law and Anglo-Saxonic law).</p>
<p>On What Matters I wrote about the importance of following your dreams, since I left med school to pursue my dream of studying philosophy, economics and international affairs at Stanford, so that I could hopefully one day help other people achieve their dreams 8this correlates with my Intelectual vitality essay)</p>
<p>Good luck guys, hope to see you in “the farm”!</p>