<p>(thought i'd start this for all the clueless juniors who might join us next year!! i remember being so scared and alone so hopefully this will encourage others to quit debate in the middle of a semester and still feel ok)</p>
<p>because I'm a raging liberal feminist
because I'm 30 and I've been applying every year since i was 15 so they finally got annoyed and let me in
because they needed someone to make the other people with 2380s feel better about themselves
because I mentioned in my essay that I would be willing to streak across the auditorium if I could "stop one heart from breaking" - in yo face, emily dickenson!</p>
<p>because I'm Filipino and know how to exploit that in an essay
because they had to prove that they don't only take athletes from my school (2 recruits this year)
because I threatened to injure the recruits at my school
because they had to mess with the minds of people who care too much about SAT scores (2070 baby)
because my Chemistry teacher lied in her recommendation and said I wrote the "most thorough and well researched lab reports she'd ever seen in her career," when really I did like the rest of my friends and wrote it in 5 minutes in the comp lab before homeroom.
because my art teacher called me a Renaissance man to counter my lack of a passion/hook</p>
<p>because I've read most philosophy from Plato to Zizek (it's an unhealthy obsession), and still managed to make fun of funny french intellectuals for one of my essays
because I'm a master debater- haha bad bad pun, but yeah. And I guess stanford wants people for their pimp debate prgrm? And I know some people hate it (hehe jk purple)- but I've you've got the skillz, use what you've got yo.
because I strategically- or more luckily picked a research team to work with that is now getting published in nature this spring- and I took a chance in sending in my intel report haha
Because I attached a picture of myself climbing up a waterfall for my picture essay- and it was pretty rugged if i do say so myself.
And finally, because like you guys, my occupation is being a badass. Arla and I were saying- they have enough perfect kids, so maybe they're picking on the baseness of general coolness.
This class freaking rocks, go us, and go Stanford.</p>
<p>All of mine are (except for the threatening one)...I got to read my recs when they wrote them for Pitt's Chancellor's scholarship (Sealed recommendations accidently got unsealed hehe.) Now I'm haning o with a couple friends, and wow, I somehow ended up here again. I'm an addict, I admit.</p>
<p>Because I had a rec from a nationally-known historian who I'd worked for over the past several years
Because I have work experience from PGP Corporation (a world-renowned encryption software company based in Palo Alto)
Because I took neuroscience at Brown University last summer and got the highest grade in the class (even though I didn't study for a couple of my tests until the day of and for a period of time I smoked pot every day)
Because the way they count their SAT scores, I have a 2400 with perfect SAT IIs and APs
Because my teachers are awesome and probably write awesome recs
Because I'm from the Midwest</p>
<p>(I'm probably one of those perfect kids...little do they know...)</p>
<p>haha, neemi, if I hadn't been so interested in drugs (and really, neuroscience in general) I probably would've done worse in the course. I actually wrote a paper on the link between marijuana and psychosis. From a neurological standpoint, marijuana is not nearly as bad as alcohol, except for that psychosis risk...</p>
<p>But yeah, I respect your decision...there are times at which I wish I held myself to that...</p>
<p>you know it's weird, but the potheads, if they apply themselves like you have, seem to be the truly smart ones...there's this one kid at my school--same deal but he's really smart...ugh...I dont get it!!! Maybe I should start--hahahahaha: if someone who knew me heard that they'd laugh</p>