<p>i heard that a couple of years ago, one of stanford's essays was "describe yourself" or something along those lines....</p>
<p>someone but "succinct" and apparently got in.</p>
<p>now this year they have this picture and essay topic...
someone at my school suggested taking a picture of his butt and writing about how he was well-rounded... i understand that this trying to be funny thing could turn out both ways...</p>
<p>Haha, that would be funny indeed.</p>
<p>I've heard the succinct this too, in a different form- the topic asked about your best trait, and the student's essay was "brevity." I'm pretty sure it's not true, but I could believe if it were- it is clever and thought-provoking.</p>
<p>I could believe it, I would certainly get sick of reading all those essays, especially since so many people go over the limit. I bet that by the end they all think brevity is a virtue.</p>
<p>Kinda makes me wish I had made my essays shorter...</p>
<p>thats probably not what got them in though, if their stats sucked the adcoms would think that this person is just another pompous slacker</p>
<p>its not possible to write short essays when they have a 5100 character limit. I felt really guilty when I found that mine had come to 3597. And that was when I had already written 727 words!</p>
<p>yup my essay was a LOT under 5100. and it was 1.5 pages single spaced. im applying to stanford RD but i didn't make the december 1 deadline. in fact i dont even know if i'll make the deadline for the 15th.</p>
<p>the Dec 1 deadline doesn't mean anything, but you'd better have it in by the 15th. You can wait till 11:59 PST on the 15th, but its gotta go in all the same.</p>
<p>Funny story: I sent my EA app in the night before at like 8:58, and it showed up on there as 11:59 PST!! I was very taken aback... I live in CA...</p>
<p>Super sketchy.</p>
<p>weird...who knows what happened</p>
<p>i bet thats when they let the last load of applications enter their system.</p>