<p>Hello everyone, I'm a prospective EA applicant who has just finished writing his CommonApp essays as well as the intellectual vitality essay for the supplement. The other two supplementary essays are still works in progress. Would anyone care to take a look and provide constructive feedback? If so, just drop a post and I'll PM or e-mail you (PM or post your e-mail if you prefer this option). Thank you for your time. - Goeffrey</p>
<p>PS: Please, nobody applying to college this year and no parents of people applying to college this year. I would rather be paranoid than regretful.</p>
<p>Hey, don't rush your essays. I have gone through about six drafts of my common app essay and three drafts of my intellectual vitality and why stanford essay and have still not reached a final product. This is Stanford university, essays must dazzle...</p>
<p>If you want i can read over your intellectual vitality essay and send you my comments, as for the common app essay- you should only show that to your counsellor and/or parents to review. I would not post them up here if i were you...</p>
<p>Hey, I didn't rush my essays and I think I know what I am doing when it comes to essays. I have won three national writing awards and one international award and I have never written a "rough draft". Ever. And I have more awards pending. Nor do I ever intend to write a draft. The whole idea is ridiculous to me, and in my opinion, is such garbage that it smells from miles away. </p>
<p>Even in second grade I laughed in a certain somebody's face when she said I had to "write a draft first." That's how ridiculous the idea of writing a "draft" completely separate from your "final copy" is to me. Either you know what you are going to say or you don't. Period. </p>
<p>Drafts are for weather and insulation only. Consider what you will write in your head, before you go commit it to paper. Please, until then, don''t waste my time with this business. What a joke, the poster-boy above me is pontificating like the Oracle of Delphi but has no better an opinion than a bum on 42nd street.</p>
<p>*Hey, I didn't rush my essays and I think I know what I am doing when it comes to essays. I have won three national writing awards and one international award and I have never written a "rough draft". Ever. And I have more awards pending. Nor do I ever intend to write a draft. The whole idea is ridiculous to me, and in my opinion, is such garbage that it smells from miles away. </p>
<p>Even in second grade I laughed in a certain somebody's face when she said I had to "write a draft first." That's how ridiculous the idea of writing a "draft" completely separate from your "final copy" is to me. Either you know what you are going to say or you don't. Period. </p>
<p>Drafts are for weather and insulation only. Consider what you will write in your head, before you go commit it to paper. Please, until then, don''t waste my time with this business. What a joke, the poster-boy above me is pontificating like the Oracle of Delphi but has no better an opinion than a bum on 42nd street.*</p>
<p>I lost a lot of respect for you with that post. The guy is just trying to give advice and then you call him a joke. You're a cool kid.</p>
<p>No seriously it's fine, he can say whatever he wants. Every single piece of paper he touches immediately becomes god's gift to writing. That's why he has already won the Noble Prize in Literature. Eighteen times. Every single year of his life.</p>
<p>A draft is any piece of writing before the final copy. Unless you're just planning on typing your essays straight into the Common App and immediately hitting submit, you have written a draft. Your essay is fine, pretty solid actually, but my best advice to you is stop being so insufferably obnoxious. You're a teenager. You have a long way to go (see "Bestselling Authors") before you're allowed to be that arrogant about your writing.</p>
<p>Sorry for the arrogance in my previous post. It was in response to what I thought was arrogance, which I now realize makes for a weird sort of irony. I wrote it after a "long" night out- look at what time these posts were written, I'm in the eastern US- and I since regret writing it the way I did. Basically, I felt insulted by the confident tone of the post prior to mine and felt a need to respond, but I did so excessively and impuslively. Again, sorry for the teenage idiocy. - Goeffrey</p>
<p>Oh my Shakespeare!! Paranoid? Somebody might steal your awesome essay? Tell you what, you kids are the reason Stanford has to go through so much pain selecting nice down-to-earth people. First of all, Mr. Nobel, why the f**k are you even asking for anybody's comments? You write gold, ain't it not? Listen, learn to put your feet on the ground, my boy! Maybe you have won awards, awards don't mean anything, sonny! Learn a bit of respect! It will do you good! And learn to be grateful! </p>
<p>Nobody's gonna read your essays ... oh! we might not even comprehend the language .... better keep them to yourself!</p>
<p>Yes it was just a post. The bloody attitude dripped out of it because I had fun writing it that way, I got carried away and didn't think people would take it this seriously.</p>
<p>Geoffrey, your response was both unmerited and illogical. I was just trying to help; if you respond to most people's advice with such arrogance and belligerence, i'm sure stanford is not the place for you... If however, you were just in a wrong state of mind, i still feel there is something to be said about writing multiple versions of the essay. Nevertheless, you should learn to be less truculent when people are offering their advice...
What is most admirable about stanford is its ability to choose a humble and yet hungry student body. With such blatant arrogance, in response to such a harmless suggestion, perhaps you should be looking elsewhere...</p>
<p>ProjectStanford, sorry for the response. I was in a wrong state of mind and I got carried away with writing the most truculent response I could could come up with, more as a nifty thing to do and an exercise in creating tone than anything else. Don't take it personally, although there really is nothing personal about an Internet forum to begin with. Cheers and good luck with the application process.- Geoff</p>
<p>I understand completely. Just stay humble and collected, and you will be pleasantly surprised. I wish you the best of luck with Stanford and your other schools.</p>
<p>OK Geoff ... maybe you were in a wrong frame of mind ... it's alright, since you realized that you were at fault and apologized to ProjectStanford. Hope I was not too harsh on you, best of luck with your apps!</p>
<p>^wow adrivit. I don't mean this in a "bad" way, but you just changed your expression just like that. That was pretty funny.
anyways,
Geoff, why haven't I gotten your essays? I sent you my email. . . I understand your blunder, so I won't ashame you in anyway. Good luck in your apps.</p>
<p>Yet again, I am in a wrong frame of mind as I view the CC forums. School starting, without a doubt, will break this degenerate habit of mine. However, I recognize this fact and will not give a serious reponse to anything in this thread until tomorrow morning. I have already been stupid enough as it is. "Speak" to you then. - Geoff</p>