<p>Anyone here link me to the Stanford supplement on the Stanford site? I can't seem to find it....</p>
<p>It has to be submitted online, and can only be viewed after opening a username account to apply online.</p>
<p>I already have a CommonApp account. I have to submit that before the Stanford supplement becomes available? But for like Harvard and Princeton, the supplements are also available on their respective sites....</p>
<p>Yes, it appears than Stanford is doing things differently from Harvard and Princeton. (And, FWIW, I like the Harvard-Princeton way of posting the supplement online better than the Stanford way of making it invisible.)</p>
<p>So that means I can't send any supplementary material like a resume or an attachment that better explains my activities?</p>
<p>I phoned the admissions office earlier this week and was told that the supplemental app. would not be available on the Stanford site until August.</p>
<p>The Stanford supplement is on the common app site. You just have to add Stanford to your list of colleges.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply in post #7. I don't have anyone in my own household applying this year, hence we haven't opened up a Common Application account, but I like to know these things as part of one of my community organizational activities here in this state.</p>
<p>Yes, the supplement has been available via the commonapp.org site the
last couple of days. :)</p>
<p>In case you have last year's application, the Stanford common
app supplement seems to have exactly the same Essay questions as
last year's Stanford application. I Couldn't find the "Picture is
worth a thousand words" question though and they seem to have
changed the short responses ...here is the complete list
of short response questions on the new supplement:</p>
<p>in ~50 words
NAME YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS, AUTHORS,FILMS,AND/OR
MUSICAL ARTISTS</p>
<p>WHAT NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, AND/OR WEBSITES DO YOU
ENJOY?</p>
<p>WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE THAT SOCIETY
FACES TODAY?</p>
<p>HOW DID YOU SPEND YOUR LAST 2 SUMMERS?</p>
<p>WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITE EVENTS THIS LAST YEAR?</p>
<p>WHAT QUALITIES DO YOU ADMIRE IN PEOPLE?</p>
<p>WHO IS YOUR HERO FROM WHOM YOU DRAW INSPIRSTION?</p>
<p>HOW DO YOU REJUNEVATE YOURSELF?</p>
<p>WHAT HISTORICAL MOMENT DO YOU WISH YOU HAD WITNESSED?</p>
<p>WHAT FIVE WORDS BEST DESCRIBE YOU?</p>
<p>Thanks for the essay prompts.</p>
<p>Yeah I found it on the common app site yesterday.</p>
<p>As seen on </p>
<p><a href="http://admission.stanford.edu/applying/common/%5B/url%5D">http://admission.stanford.edu/applying/common/</a> </p>
<p>
[quote]
After logging in to Common App Online, select Stanford University from the "My Colleges" list. The online Stanford Supplement to the Common Application will then be available in your "Supplements" tab.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>So that's just the way it is this year. Thanks for the detailed information.</p>
<p>wow that is very convenient...</p>
<p>ahh these questions are sort of annoying..... >.< :(</p>
<p>do they actually know what kids listen to........ or read those short questions on the supplement? wow.</p>
<p>interesting exercise if you keep the Caltech, Stanford, Harvard (from their site), Pton (last year) supplements side and by side and analyze what they are all asking you can start forming a clear picture of what kind of
student would be a good fit for these schools......</p>
<p>no doubt each of us will come up with a slightly different viewpoint but
I am beginning to see that there is a definite trend.....</p>
<p>Caltech is the most precise (IMHO relatively speaking) ....
Surprisingly Stanford is the least precise with seemingly minor emphasis on
academic preparation in the body of the form.... as compared to
Pton (last year's) which does lay emphasis on the extra academic
preparation and Harvard (this year's form from their site) which focuses on AP's but not particularly much else.....</p>
<p>Pton's last year form almost has verbatim all the new questions that
the Stanford form has except with the caveat that answers be limited to
at most a few words....but then the Pton form has a lot more than the
Stanford form ...which brings me to the big question ...how are the Stanford
adcoms going to be able to differentiate on the basis of such limited information.....? A lot must be riding on those Personal Statements....
duh, I guess I knew that to begin with ..... :D :)</p>
<p>I am also guessing they are looking for consistent style rather than content in the short answer responses....maybe they got something like a Myers-Brigg like calibration fo potential answer ranges.....just wildly guessing...</p>
<p>but they wouldn't necessarily know, say, like... what the book "As Hot As It Was You Ought To Thank Me" was, right? lol. Or any book, for that matter... unless it was something famous like War and Peace or Frankenstein...</p>
<p>"In addition to your Common Application essay, please respond to the following three questions. Your responses must be at least 250 words but should not exceed the space provided."</p>
<p>... must be at least 250 words!? nooooo... but I spent such a long time getting them down to 150 words... :(</p>
<p>yeah i feel you..i was so happy about my essay but it was like 270 words and I cut it like mad (they said 10 lines!).. I don't remember what I initially wrote so now I just had to inflate the whole text to reach the 250 words.. grrr
luckily I wrote only one of the short answers before the supplement came out..</p>
<p>I am ****ed... haha. isn't 250 wds and 10 lines a contradiction??</p>