<p>So if you did research and were very successful, does that help a lot</p>
<p>It certainly helps, I would think it helps a lot but I’m just speculating</p>
<p>ok cool. I hope we all get in.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! My internship was about using biotechnology to help people with spinal cord injuries. Besides me, there were three other high school students there with me. All of us did separate projects relating to spinal cord research. Some people built electrode arrays (which are built into the spinal cord to stimulate electrical signals in paralyzed parts of the body), build/designed stand-frames (to assist people who are learning how to walk), etc. All I did was learn the functions/ anatomy of the spinal cord, look at MRI images of a rat spinal cord, helped build a 3D model of a spinal cord using ITK snap (which uses such pretty colors!).</p>
<p>@SushiCat </p>
<p>THATS REALLY AWESOME!</p>
<p>Oh, that’s cool. I also had lab research, but yours is probably a better hook than mine because my experience was just in a parents’ colleague’s lab where I worked under a graduate student. Learned a lot of new techniques and processes, but no independent project just by myself.</p>
<p>Lol sup guys, apparently while you’ve all been doing cutting-edge medical research I’ve been recording videos and posting them on my YouTube channel. Stanford here I come…</p>
<p>I will laugh so hard if you’re accepted and then they tell you that it was your Youtube channel that caught their attention.</p>
<p>I found this…</p>
<p>Stanford generally says that the decisions will be released on or around December 15, but they are often released before then. Here are the dates and days of the week on which they’ve been released over the past 12 years:</p>
<p>December 14, 2012 (Friday)
December 9, 2011 (Friday)
December 10, 2010 (Friday)
December 9, 2009 (Wednesday)
December 12, 2008 (Friday)
December 14, 2007 (Friday)
December 15, 2006 (Friday)
December 15, 2005 (Thursday)
December 10, 2004 (Friday)
December 10, 2003 (Wednesday)
December 17, 2002 (Tuesday)
December 11, 2001 (Tuesday)</p>
<p>This is torture. All our decisions have probably been made already.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Stanford delayed their EA deadline because of Hurricane Sandy last year, and they still got the decisions out on the Friday before the 15th. That means they probably wouldn’t be any later with the decisions because of the delay this year.</p>
<p>@orbdas i know right, the best analogy I can make to our situation is schrodingers cat, we won’t know til we open that email and its killing me.</p>
<p>@orbdas I MAKE YOUTUBE VIDEOS TOO. ???</p>
<p>@feministinadress</p>
<p>What sort of stuff do you post? I record myself playing drums. I’d post my channel here but I don’t want to compromise my identity.</p>
<p>@orbdas I’ll message you. I don’t belong to the same category of YouTubers as you do, but it’s nice to see that I’m not the only one who can relate to the whole “nice research award, here’s a video I made in my bedroom” thing.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about the lack of research thing. Having lab experience seems like a dime a dozen on applications now. Not bad to have, but not going to destroy you if you don’t have a lab nearby/don’t have the same opportunities. </p>
<p>I’m worried about my application’s lack of focus. Lots of people seem to have a focus and have everything oriented towards math or biology or engineering etc., but the only constant I have is art. My classes over the years are pretty scattered and don’t really make sense together in the big picture either.</p>
<p>Did ya’ll put the Youtube video thing on your app? I wrote that I post to an art/animation website and have ~15,000 followers. Still, I didn’t actually provide the site link or a supplement, which in hindsight I should have done</p>
<p>My high school is supposedly in the top 1% of US public schools but I don’t know a single person who is doing any sort of research. It’s just not a thing around here. And the only constant I really have is music. It runs through all but one of my essays.</p>
<p>@killbeefgoham, I just included a link to my channel in my Arts Supplement (and posted my Arts Supplement unlisted on my channel) and listed independent drumming as an extracurricular activity.</p>
<p>Aegise: That’s fine, I think! As long as you actually care about art and it’s obvious that you do, then you’ll be fine. I’m just worried because my interests are kind of divided between art, music, and technology, and I’m not incredibly exceptional in any of those things. I can draw, play music, and I have a fair amount of technological knowledge, but nothing like US Piano champion or Intel or winning any major awards</p>
<p>killbeefgoham: I provided links to my art accounts in the art resume just so that if they checked for stolen work, it wouldn’t look like I copied from someone online. Especially because everything I upload online has watermarks, but the files I provided for the portfolio don’t. Lol I haven’t really used the accounts in a while though, so they’re dead and just have old stuff, but I figured that if they looked and saw old stuff, they could see how my art evolved.</p>
<p>Assuming that they even look at the accounts instead of just taking note of it and skipping over.</p>
<p>And don’t worry, I don’t have any exceptional awards or anything either. I don’t like competitions, so I only really entered 2 art contests when I realized that I needed some kind of proof for college.</p>