<p>what in the world were they looking for this year? i'm shocked i got in. i'm assuming it's my essay though, b/c i know scores don't matter too much and i have nothing else.
strange, isn't it? even harvard's admissions seemed so random. how do we explain all that?
it looks like the decision is based like 75% on essay or something!!!
truly awesome people who've worked super duper hard didn't get in, and it's pretty shocking...</p>
<p>i know waht you mean. just the numbers, only 850 of us. its amazing. i keep asking myself why they could possibly want me. i can barely tell left from right most of the time. (seriously, it's a pain when im driving. i think i might be a little dyslexic)</p>
<p>what was your essay about?</p>
<p>i think my existence is proof that there really is a shift in what they want. I say this as the shameful person who got accepted with a 2250 and a horribly low 4.2weighted GPA, and only one 5 on APs. I'm still in shock! I wrote about wanting to become a counterculture doctor, my period (i know!!) and the favorite quote question about "why do i keep hitting myself in the head with a hammer? because it feels so good when I stop." it was ultraliberal, funny and feminist.
so I am complete undeserving and humbly bow down to the really worthy 2380s, even though high school doesn't matter anymore and I feel like a totally different person. what'd you guys write about?</p>
<p>lol! left from right. :P</p>
<p>my essay..i dunno it was weird. i can't explain it. the theme was imagination, but the way i presented it wasn't typical.</p>
<p>I had the numbers too, but I think a large part was me making sure that they got a sense of who I am as a person.</p>
<p>I wrote two essays about ultimate frisbee and the long essay about the quote "Smile for no reason" and how it makes me a better person.</p>
<p>mine was pretty boring i think. i wrote about this flannery o'connor quote about truth and art and passion. it was more like a "how i see the world" one then a "look at the things i've done" essay. i showed it to my english teacher and she said it didnt sound like a college essay. but i suppose it worked.</p>
<p>Haha I only spent the Sunday before EA deadline writing essays, but at least I spent the whole day writing them. Apparently, they liked em quite a bit. One was a comical narrative on philosophy/existentialism/PoMo, basically making fun of silly but intense stuff I've read and even believed at one point. One was on service, cliche I know, but I'm on the leadership end of things with the Southwest District exec board of Key Club so I talked about a couple of really amazing initiatives I organized and some of my most moving first-hand experiences over the past two years here, in mexico, in Kenya. Another was on getting stuck on a waterfall in the Colorado Rockies and finally making it up Long's peak (14K feet) with some friends. Anyways, I have a really witty sense of humor, and I just tried to make them comical and descriptive, while revealing my passions.
Sorry for the long post!</p>
<p>ditto here - but I was trying to wait because i'm an impulsive writer - i write the best when I'm ****ed out and spontaneous. I thought i screwed myself over when I submitted the one about my period. hehe
did you guys show them to teachers and people to get feedback? did it help? i showed the period one and the long one to my counselor, who was disgusted adn told me not to send them. but i defied her and i'm soooo happy. counselors don't know everything.</p>
<p>I wrote them all in one weekend and only showed them to my mom, who made some minor corrections.</p>
<p>I wrote about my trip to World Youth Day for the long one, track for the EC one (and how I suck at it), writing music and its connection to visual and literary arts (intellectual idea), and the various things I see in the Philippines (roomate). I only showed the music and roomate ones to my college counselor - who only made minor edits.</p>
<p>haha my long one took a few days, but my short answers were written in 2 days. man i've heard of people who start on them during the summer!! but i think that if you start on an essay too early and keep revising it over...and over...and over, it loses a certain something...i dunno.</p>
<p>I was pretty sure I was getting deferred until Thursday~</p>
<p>My scores are...fine, just not 2390 or something :). I thought what helped me were all of my club activities, essays, and teacher recs, but for essays, I wrote on like the most random things ever. Maybe they like random?</p>
<p>I wrote 2 short answers and the entire long essay the Friday night/Saturday morning before it was due...my writing just flows a lot better at 4:00am...</p>
<p>My short answers were about debate and struggling through it, libraries and philosophy, and not sleeping (kind of ironic that I wrote it at 3 in the morning). My long one was answering the picture prompt, about how awesome it is to build a catapult.</p>
<p>If anyone remembers, I'm the person who sent in a photo of my friend and I holding our catapult, which I scribbled over with the little brush thing on Microsoft Paint. I really, really regretted doing that for about a month and a half and up until Thursday at 7, I was pretty sure it would keep me out of Stanford...</p>
<p>=P monica stop making fun of people who write essays in the summer!
gjob on stanford though~ ^^
<3!
*p.s. i came here to congratulate you but found you making fun of me, so ROWR on you.</p>
<p>eh?? sally? when did you take statistics ap?</p>
<p>HAHA STOP GIVING ME AWAY
i was trying not to make it obvious it was me cause stats doesnt count for much anywhere i heard?</p>
<p>haha sally you didn't start on yours over the summer!!! you started like in september, didn't you?</p>
<p>i was just saying, some ppl start in like june.</p>
<p>i started on october 26th, but gave out recs in early october </p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>and i got in :)</p>
<p>hehe i started in the summer?</p>
<p>i'll be the laughingstock... I wrote 4 perfect essays starting in June and they were all done in August and everything. I tried to submit them in Oct and suddenly decided they werent' me - so wrote brand new ones in like 2 days and submitted them out of the blue... risks are good. i didn't even spellcheck.</p>