<p>lol it seems like a lot of people are signing up. good luck to you all. when are you guys planning to start your apps?</p>
<p>whenever they put them up!</p>
<p>its already up lol</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao
11.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>
</ol>
<p>I'm still going to have to do some thinking about it over the next few days before submitting the basic information form. I think only one of us'll apply SCEA to Stanford, the other'll probably do so somewhere else.</p>
<p>Lol, I've started on the long essay, but I've been avoiding it for the past few weeks thanks to mad writer's block. I guess now that the app's online, though, it's time to seriously start working on it. Other than that, I think I'll probably submit Form 1 tonight (I just realized that the app was up). I agree with Choboking -- good luck to everyone! Hopefully, all our hard work over the years will pay off. :]</p>
<p>Amen to that my chillaxin friend. =] good luck to everyone on their essays. im pretty much done with mine already lol just gonna do some mad revisions. we should try to help each other out even though we are competitors ;)</p>
<p>lol. ugh essays. i'm still in summer school and have 2 books to read for ap english. and now essays! and this is supposed to be SUMMER. but wtheck, i'm having fun. :) good luck guys!</p>
<p>btw, if anyone wants an essay proofreaded, feel free to pm me... i've done it tons of times since my exbf had to do his essays last year and i read through them a thousand times and i also read the comments that my stanford alumni teacher wrote on his essays so i pretty much know what to write about and how to write it. :) now, i just gotta write them.</p>
<p>What are the word counts for the essays online? Has anyone figured it out yet? I thought it was 300 and 1000 for the long one..</p>
<p>from what i have learned, its ~250 words for short and ~500 for long</p>
<p>My long one was more than 500, but I don't recall the exact word count.</p>
<p>-"a picture is worth a thousand words" as the adage goes</p>
<p>well my long essay was closing in on 1000</p>
<p>Oy vei, so I guess you really can't attach a picture this year to the application, since it doesn't even mention it (I checked out the paper version). Would it be bad to attach one anyways? Or does Stanford's don't-send-us-anything-else rule still apply here?</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao
11.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... I've been perusing this board since last year's SCEAers and I can't believe it's finally me now! Hopefully we'll have better luck than last year's applicants on this board.</li>
</ol>
<p>Throw me in the mix, my chances dont look good so i figure might as well go SCEA to get the rejection letter out of the way</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao
11.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>
</ol>
<p>My first college choice ever since I was little. I'm recently thinking about applying so it seems like a go.</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao
11.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>
</ol>
<p>I'm in conflict with Princeton ED, though. Parents like Princeton for the prestige...but I think I'm still doing Stanford EA.</p>
<p>For the essays, is everyone just not attaching a picture now? I really want to, but since I'm doing the online app, I think it'd be more than a bit awkward to randomly send in the picture by itself.</p>
<p>what's going to be your picture? just curious since I can't think of anything better than my naked baby picture</p>
<p>Lol! Well basically, I'm writing about this experience I had teaching low-income students in my parents' hometown last summer. I have this really nifty picture of the class from the back, with this one girl who has her hand raised. It also happened that helping that girl grow and develop throughout the course of the summer really inspired me and led me to where I am now. Since I refer to her as "the girl with the blue barrettes and the hand raised" for the first paragraph, I'd rather have something substantial to back it up, you know? lol. Plus, a lot less explaining and describing is necessary if the picture does it for you.</p>
<p>wow chillaxin that is an awesome essay topic! you sound pretty amazing. how afraid are you guys, by the way lol? i am majorly nervous, but, nevertheless, im gonna try not to worry about it too much and just let fate choose. if anyone is having problems with essays or just need editing, they should post here. =) it'll be great helping each other.</p>