<p>Please just do what you think is best as far as applying early or regular. Don't go nuts trying to analyze the "how can i get even a .0000001% better chance of acceptance" game. If you want to know if you can go to Stanford, cool, apply early! I'm sure you're all bright people, so just focus on yourself - the only thing you have control over - and your grades, activities, essays, etc.</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao</li>
<li>Shark_bite</li>
<li>BLaCkYoSh1</li>
<li>realitysucks</li>
<li>skatearabia</li>
<li>x3rose</li>
<li>caughtinbetween</li>
<li>aznxboy1228</li>
<li>neasebreeze</li>
<li>guardiandevil423</li>
<li>k_twin (possible)</li>
<li>k_twin's twin (possible)</li>
<li>takeme2cali</li>
<li>surftheiop</li>
<li>De2</li>
<li>oasis</li>
<li>silho_ette</li>
<li>VAdesi</li>
<li>skywalker99</li>
<li>pyleela</li>
<li>v_li88</li>
<li>WeCareALot</li>
<li>theterminator</li>
<li>pyroman</li>
<li>shynic89</li>
<li>quickflood</li>
</ol>
<p>I removed my name from the list. I've decided that applying early would be too stressful, especially considering that I'm submitting an art portfolio that I still need some time to work on. That also gives me time to improve my grades; third term junior year I got a B in IB History, which I'm confident I can raise to an A first term this year. You guys really don't need to know my entire line of reasoning, but that's pretty much it. I feel much more relaxed already. :)</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao</li>
<li>Shark_bite</li>
<li>BLaCkYoSh1</li>
<li>realitysucks</li>
<li>skatearabia</li>
<li>x3rose</li>
<li>caughtinbetween</li>
<li>aznxboy1228</li>
<li>neasebreeze</li>
<li>guardiandevil423</li>
<li>k_twin (possible)</li>
<li>k_twin's twin (possible)</li>
<li>takeme2cali</li>
<li>surftheiop</li>
<li>De2</li>
<li>oasis</li>
<li>silho_ette</li>
<li>VAdesi</li>
<li>skywalker99</li>
<li>pyleela</li>
<li>v_li88</li>
<li>WeCareALot</li>
<li>theterminator</li>
<li>pyroman</li>
<li>shynic89</li>
<li>quickflood</li>
<li>devaaki</li>
</ol>
<p>well...... im glad to join a crowd of excellent applicants. i'll be checking into this post later.. :)</p>
<p>right now... gotta work on NMSC essay :( le poop.</p>
<p>hmm so the essay i've written fits the word limit but goes well over the character limit when attempting to apply online. 500 words = 2300 characters for me. and it cuts you off at about 1600. has anyone else faced this dilemma? any suggestions?</p>
<p>Other than trim.... I don't know... have you tried pasting it? 'Cuz I know you can go over by a little bit... not sure how much.</p>
<p>i think the long essay is 500 words and 4900 characters. the three short essays are 250 words each and 1600 characters.</p>
<p>Really? There's a word limit as well?</p>
<p>With the deadline rolling ever so close to us, where are all of you on the application? Have you even started? Or are you too busy?</p>
<p>um... I've passed out my recs and thought about the application =) haven't started yet though..</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao</li>
<li>Shark_bite</li>
<li>BLaCkYoSh1</li>
<li>realitysucks</li>
<li>skatearabia</li>
<li>x3rose</li>
<li>caughtinbetween</li>
<li>aznxboy1228</li>
<li>neasebreeze</li>
<li>guardiandevil423</li>
<li>k_twin (possible)</li>
<li>k_twin's twin (possible)</li>
<li>takeme2cali</li>
<li>surftheiop</li>
<li>De2</li>
<li>oasis</li>
<li>silho_ette</li>
<li>VAdesi</li>
<li>skywalker99</li>
<li>pyleela</li>
<li>v_li88</li>
<li>WeCareALot</li>
<li>theterminator</li>
<li>pyroman</li>
<li>shynic89</li>
<li>quickflood</li>
<li>devaaki</li>
<li>XxDarkxX</li>
</ol>
<p>Hahah, julyinoh, you rock. :] I've passed out [most] of my recs; I still have to give out my counselor forms and resolve some issues with the optional rec (my supervisor is still on maternity leave). As for the essays, I have the long essay written but I basically hate it so I'm going to hopefully revise it a lot and do the other three short essays ASAP, with hopefully being the key word. lol. Whoever knew senior year was so stressful?</p>
<p>I passed out my recs filled out form a, but have not started the essay except a really bad free write.
I'm taking SAT on Oct 14th, after that I'll have two weeks entirely devoted to essay writing. two weeks is enough, right? anyone else taking SAT?</p>
<p>2 weeks is enough for some people. Some take less, some take more... I fit in the more category (~1 month). But I am just a slow worker ;)</p>
<p>yup quickflood im gonna join that SAT room too lol. hope we both do good on it =). on another note, i am like celestial605. i take forever on the essays (thats why I did it over summer) because i find myself staring at Microsoft Word or simply procrastinating. so if any of you are like me, i suggest taking out some paper and start writing on it. that way, you have no way of procrastinating.</p>
<p>Yea I keep meaning to work on it every night, but it never works and I just go to bed. I don't even know where all my time goes.. it just.. disappears.. sucks eh?</p>
<p>Is anyone mailing their app in? My teacher told me to mail in the whole thing with a nice cover letter, but I think these days the only person that's gonna see the letter is a secretary..</p>
<p>yeah sorry-should have said around 500 words. I've submitted form 1 and am struggling to fit all the EC's and awards into the tiny spaces on the online app. Anyone else having the same problem?</p>
<p>haha, that's funny, I don't have enough award to fill half of the space. wanna share some awards with me?</p>
<p>Ooh, I had a question about the awards thing too (though I'm still not there yet, since I'm still procrastinating on "Career Interests"). It says "academic" awards, so does that mean I can't put awards I've gotten for my overall community service? I wouldn't call it academic, but it doesn't fall into any particular extracurricular either. Also, I won awards for "business" roundtable projects that I wrote-up based on a financial plan for (wouldn't you know) paying for a Stanford education & for my volunteer work. Could I put both under academic awards or only the financial plan one?</p>
<p>I would put the business award under academic awards, though I'm not sure. The community service awards should be under extra-curriculars-listed under volunteer work as an activity.</p>
<p>what about sports awards?</p>