astein,
Stanford
B.S., Undecided
Class of 2019! Working in tech. I love math, coding, acting, and giving college advice.
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Class of2019
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Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Applied for a B.S. in Undecided
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What I like about my school’s location and culture160 WordsStanford really appealed to me because of how they encouraged cooperation and exploration. Many other top-tier schools I looked at seemed to foster competition between students. Stanford, on the other hand, has no grade deflation, meaning if everyone does well, everyone gets good grades! So there is no...Read more...Most popular extracurricular activities at my college173 WordsStanford has an almost overwhelming number of extracurriculars to join. Some are common to a lot of colleges: SWE (Society of Women Engineers), Mock Trial, Debate, Club Sports, A Capella groups, and so on. But there is probably a club for any activity you want to do, and some you've never heard...Read more...My extracurricular activities in college, and why I chose them175 WordsMy biggest extracurricular activity is being a member of the Stanford Shakespeare Company. Throughout the year and in the fall especially there are a lot of auditions for plays on campus. StanShakes is the only theater company, meaning that you audition once and then you are automatically cast in all of their plays....Read more...My favorite course thus far, and why145 WordsI have already taken so many cool classes at Stanford. My favorite class I've taken is CS 103. It's basically a class on how to write proofs and computational theory (DFAs, NFAs, Turing machines, etc.). The subject material was hard, and it sounds pretty awful ...Read more...More Essays
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Personal Statement614 WordsChildhood memory, Creative personal story, Embarrassing mistake, Failure experience, One moment that changed you, Story central to identityIn third grade, I had a crush on a boy named Jack. He was the up and coming quarterback character, and I was the odd girl that wore almost exclusively gauchos and clogs. While his natural charm was enough to make any girl swoon, he really stole my heart when he told the class that his favorite color was hot pink. My crush on Jack taught me one thing: To be extra cautious and stick to social norms when going...Read more...Supplemental Essay Strong beliefs/principles261 WordsPasta is the hardest thing to eat. One day in my AP Physics C class, my teacher had us split into groups and come up with a new eating utensil. My group designed an ingenious spaghetti fork which eliminated manual twisting and the annoyance of dangling noodles. We had an awful initial design, but we kept fixing it over and over and making it less dangerous and more practical. It was hard to find a way to cut the noodles....Read more...Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school252 WordsDear Future Roommate, Greetings and salutations. So I think the first thing you should know about me is that I really like chocolate. If you ever give me chocolate, I will be eternally grateful. Second, I am in love with acting. I’m not a musical theatre person (so you won’t have to listen to me sing every single song from Spring Awakening). I hope you will come see me in whatever show I’m acting in on campus....Read more...Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school255 WordsThe summer before my senior year, I took a computer coding class at UCSD and discovered that coding incorporates everything I love about math: problem solving, discovering patterns, and finding a simpler way to reach a goal. I learned ALICE, which is an object-oriented program designed to make learning code easier and more natural. We didn’t type out “real” code, but instead dragged and dropped pre-written code that created our desired result. I remember my teacher saying that you...Read more...Supplemental Essay “Why us” school essay258 WordsMath has been my favorite subject. But it wasn’t until this past summer that I discovered that computer coding incorporates everything I love about math. I’ve always loved problem solving, discovering patterns, and finding a simpler way to reach a goal. I am planning to major in Computer Science and then to apply for the Progressive Degree Program. I love that at USC you can take an engineering course your first semester freshman year. This excites me because...Read more...Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school228 WordsWith my computer science degree, I want to make life more efficient. One idea that’s an example of the type of work I’d like to do is to make finding and returning lost pets a shorter, more successful process. I imagine a database like we have for missing people where you can report information when you lose a pet. Then, if you find a lost animal, you can search by breed, color, approximate location, name, and other factors. ...Read more...Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school250 WordsBy my personal definitions, I am a huge nerd, and a little bit of a geek. A nerd is someone who gets excited when she finally understands Gauss’s Law, or giggles as he successfully proves the quadratic formula years after he first memorized it, or throws a fist in the air when she discovers a juicy rhetorical device being implemented in a letter from the 18th century. That’s me. A geek is someone who obsesses over a TV...Read more...Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school255 WordsThere is something magical about walking onto stage with a purpose, whether during opening night or just a rehearsal. Any worries about my life disappear as soon as I feel the lights in the house dim and the audience’s conversations turn into a whisper, and then stop altogether. When acting you are stepping into another person, but at the same time you are discovering who you are. When I play a role in a show, I am not just...Read more...Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school455 WordsAt Canyon Crest Academy (CCA), we paint our trash cans. Those trash cans are the ugliest things on campus, but we’re making them cool and interesting. For me, it’s about potential. You don’t think that this metal can could actually draw someone’s eye, but anything can be made beautiful. One of them is painted like a hamburger, another is covered in brightly colored fruit, and there are always a couple that are some sort of animal...Read more...Supplemental Essay Scholarship application491 WordsThere is something magical about walking onto stage with a purpose, whether during opening night or just a rehearsal. Any worries about my life disappear as soon as I feel the lights in the house dim and the audience’s conversations turn into a whisper, and then stop altogether. When acting you are stepping into another person, but at the same time you are discovering who you are. When I play a role in a show, I am not just...Read more...Supplemental Essay Other425 WordsI wrote a lot of essays, and many of them have long and short versions. The ones that got me into Stanford are my personal statement, the "Pasta is the hardest thing to eat" one, the one about ALICE, the roommate essay, and the activity essay. The USC ones were the personal statement, the activity essay, the nerd or geek one, the career one, the why USC one, and the shorter acting one. For my UC application I used my...Read more...General Admissions Advice
Whether I used a private admissions counselor, and advice I received83 WordsI used a private college counselor and it was probably one of the best decisions I made during this process. They helped me brainstorm and...Read more...My advice about getting recommenders63 WordsAsk early! At the beginning of the year. My teachers filled up so I was glad I asked right...Read more...Whether I took out loans or applied for scholarships, and my advice76 WordsI did not receive any financial aid which was sad but expected. I applied to dozens of scholarships but did not receive any ...Read more...Recommended summer activities during high school and college111 WordsDo things that you like. Really. It may seem like a good idea to join a million community service organizations and join all these diverse clubs but if you are just doing it...Read more...Why I ultimately chose my school139 WordsI applied to 8 schools and was accepted into 7 of them, my two top choices being Stanford and USC. USC offered me half tuition and I also won an additional $10,000 scholarship from the USC Town and Gown organization. Stanford offered me no money...Read more...Most popular extracurricular activities at my college173 WordsStanford has an almost overwhelming number of extracurriculars to join. Some are common to a lot of colleges: SWE (Society of Women Engineers), Mock Trial, Debate, Club Sports, A Capella groups, and so on. But there is probably a club for any activity you want to do, and some you've never heard...Read more...List of schools I interviewed with and my interview experience139 WordsI only interviewed with one school: USC. Stanford does not interview California residents. USC offers a limited number of interviews and if you have the opportunity to get one, take it only if you believe your interpersonal skills can help your application....Read more...What set me apart from other applicants153 WordsThis is a toughie. I really did not expect to get into Stanford because I did no community service before senior year and had few leadership roles. I was not part of any academic clubs and I never entered science fairs or hackathons. However, of all...Read more...How I chose schools to apply to136 WordsBefore senior year, I was set on moving across the country for college. But after touring schools on the East coast and in California, I realized how amazing California is. I ended up only applying to schools in my state for...Read more...What I like about my school’s location and culture160 WordsStanford really appealed to me because of how they encouraged cooperation and exploration. Many other top-tier schools I looked at seemed to foster competition between students. Stanford, on the other hand, has no grade deflation, meaning if everyone does well, everyone gets good grades! So there is no...Read more...High School Performance
Weighted GPA4.45RankTop 10%
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