<p>Let's get to know each other. :) I'm a female from SoCal, applied as an American Studies major, aspiring screenwriter/TV show runner/film director. And you guys?</p>
<p>Hey, I’ve seen you on the other forums!</p>
<p>female, PA, economics.</p>
<p>Yep! The Princeton thread is so cool that I thought Stanford, Yale, and USC deserved one too. :D</p>
<p>@Eiffel – You picked your major? There’s no place to pick your major on the application… :S Is there?</p>
<p>How is their application? Many essays?</p>
<p>@HMJ: You tell them what subjects you’re interested in on the Common Application. (Not binding.)</p>
<p>@collegesgirl: The supplement has five or so profile questions (2 line responses) and 3 short essays, which have a total of about 900 words.</p>
<p>Besides the USC Screenwriting program, the Stanford application had the most essays and time required for me. How about you guys?</p>
<p>Yes, the Stanford supplement was a pain. Yet I think writing for this application was the most fun (if college apps can be fun), tied with writing for MIT.</p>
<p>Yeah, it actually was fun! I just wish I could have made my essays longer, actually. XD</p>
<p>It had the most essays for me as well.</p>
<p>^^ Funny thing is, I actually made one of them longer to use for other schools.</p>
<p>Stanford’s application was the most intense (plus I had to do the QB application, which is approximately 10x longer than the Common Application), but I agree it was the most fun. The essays were thought-provoking and just specific enough, whereas others were either too specific to too dull.</p>
<p>Guy from Italy here!</p>
<p>yay! another hopeful here :)</p>
<p>going for the IR major. man, stanford’s app was a killer. started and finished it all yesterday though haha</p>
<p>Hello Everyone!
I am a former Stanford SCEA-er, and I was rejected. This will probably end up being really long winded, so please skip if you have other things to do 
I just wanted to wish all of you guys luck because Stanford is a wonderful school, and all the applicants are simply amazing. I’d like to share with you some things that I wish I’d known before getting rejected from Stanford:</p>
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<li><p>Being rejected is not the end of the world. Sure, I cried for days after being rejected, but now I’ve realized that the world doesn’t end when that fateful rejection email comes into your inbox. The rejection letter tells you that you’re amazing. And it’s true. I did what I could to get into Stanford, but it’s just amazing that there are people who are more qualified. It’s a very humbling feeling that sucks at first, but it’s great to know that there are people out there who will probably end up curing cancer or leading the world someday. If I had to lose to someone, I’d want to lose to people like that.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s not about stats. Throughout the weeks leading up to decisions, I saw a ton of CCers doubt their stats, but they shouldn’t have. Some of them got in, some didn’t. It’s not worth it to compare yourself to people you don’t know, or even those you do know. Your stats are all good enough. But that’s true of everyone applying. Write something special. Like I said in the post where I listed my stats, my major weakness was my essays.</p></li>
<li><p>CC is a wonderful place. I wasted endless hours here and I bonded with some truly amazing people. It’s also a resource filled with some of the most gifted, talented, and kindhearted people ever.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t expect anything - bad or good. What’ll happen will happen. I was expecting the worst, which I thought would help prepare me for rejection, but it definitely did not. I was still upset. Just take it as it is. </p></li>
<li><p>You will get in somewhere! I have no doubt that you will get into Stanford if you were meant to get into Stanford. So if you truly believe that Stanford is the only place you’ll ever be happy, you will get in. But that’s a terrible thing to think. There are so many wonderful universities that would love to have you. Stanford accepts 25% of CCers RD, so good luck!</p></li>
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<p>Hahaha, that was long. I’m really sorry about that. I just sincerely hope that you all get in.</p>
<p>-Anon.</p>
<p>Thanks Anon, that was a good post :)</p>
<p>So Common App is telling me that my response to the roommate question is too long, even though I’m 4 characters short of the limit. This is really annoying :/</p>
<p>My daughter’s USC application has been the longest so far. And, now the Stanford Common App. Sigh. She’s completing it in segments. Writes a little, brainstorms a lot. Writes a little more. Brainstorms. Then she leaves the whole thing alone and does something totally different. Right now she’s at her boyfriend’s. I’m a nervous wreck worried that she won’t get it done and it will be too late. 
I did just read where the teacher/counselor recs. don’t need to be in by the January 1st deadline. I think she was a bit concerned about that. Also, after she submits her app. do the teachers and counselor have a way to submit it online still? Or do they mail it by USPS? If so, does she provide them with envelopes and mailing labels? Or is the online method the best way (if it’s available after she already submitted her app?) She contacted them over a month ago for recs.</p>
<p>This is the first application and her only Common App. All the others she submitted on her own and didn’t need any feedback from us. Oh, she did need our credit card #. :)</p>
<p>@Secret Asian Man: The Common Application lied for me too. T__T</p>
<p>@2Leashes: Still online, I guess.</p>
<p>@2Leashes - I think they’ll still be online. And just let her be, if she was responsible enough to get the others done she’ll get this one done too. You can’t force college essays, sometimes they come to you at the last minute :)</p>
<p>So, what other schools are you all applying to?</p>