<p>Hi everyone...I was just wondering hwo you formtatted your answer to the question asking "Name your favorite books, authors, films, and/or musical artists." </p>
<p>Should i just do:
"books: one, two...etc
music:
authors:" </p>
<p>and list as such? or one big list in which there's no differentiation? sorry, i get very caught up over small things like this..</p>
<p>Yeah there really isn’t a required format. Whatever format you feel is clear enough for them to understand I suppose. Good luck!</p>
<p>An admissions officer told me NOT to use complete sentences for that section, just because it’s easier to read. Otherwise, I don’t think they care.</p>
<p>I just listed them, and didn’t really specify what type it was (especially since in some cases I liked both the book and the movie). Good luck!</p>
<p>was anyone confused by the whole “two lines or less” thing?
they had space for 300 words…</p>
<p>they basically prefer as short as humanly possible
the admissions officer i talked to said the 2 lines means they only want us to use 2 lines on the website text box (which is like 15 words/not even 1 full line on the print preview.)</p>
<p>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</p>
<p>**** too long</p>
<p>Harry P and the Prisoner of Azkbn</p>
<p>yeah i had to put “Up” as my favorite movie instead of “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”…</p>
<p>^ I don’t know if you’re serious, but that’s so funny :]</p>
<p>haha no i actually had enough room for the name of the movie and the name of the director</p>
<p>I put Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as one of my favorite movies! It’s worth the wasted characters, in my opinion. :P</p>
<p>I didn’t put any movies down, but if I had seen Eternal Sunshine before I submitted my application, I would have squeezed it in there.</p>
<p>I just listed the favorite stuff, but for the complete sentence answers, I tried to keep it down to two sentences, not two lines. I’m sure it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Stanford Admissions Officer 1: This sfg2014 kid seems like a nice fit.</p>
<p>Stanford Admissions Officer 2: Yeah, that’s tru…wait! He wrote over two lines! REJECT!</p>
<p>^This is the nightmare I will have tonight^</p>
<p>“dealbreaker!” haha</p>
<p>i agree with sfg2014 too!
i’m scared that if i don’t put a lot of details, then the admission readers might think low of me…but if i do go over the recommended 2 lines, then the admission might think i’m desperate and cannot follow directions!</p>
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<p>I just listed books. In fact, I listed too many books to have any room left for authors/music. It still worked out for me.</p>
<p>They really won’t kill you for writing more than two lines. I did three lines for most of the questions because whatever I listed tended to have a really long name… But I lived. ;D They probably only want you to keep it short because they already have a lot to read.</p>
<p>As long as the entire answer is viewable in print preview, it’s fine.</p>
<p>All of mine were a few characters less than the word count and I got in. Im sure that if you are under that, you are fine. If they didnt want to read 300 characters, I’m sure they would have made the character count less. They will not read into how many lines you have and use that to make an admission decision.</p>