Successful Stanford application essays - first lines

[red_delicious]

For ten years, I have regretted botching my Stanford early decision application. I had written an awesome application essay that spring in my high school workshop, but in the midnight rush to meet the deadline, my confidence faltered and I wrote a completely different essay for this "special" application. It sucked, and I was rejected

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[shigi]

My essay was a comic strip about how I perceived the world.

[red_delicious]

ha! how cool and original :) how many panels did you have?

standord essays

[shigi]

what on earth is this? i can't believe they let hipsters into stanford. did you get into swarthmore? what a big difference from mit. ~ apple

stand on the riverbank surveying this rippled range like some riparian cowboy - instead of chaps, I wear vinyl, thigh-high waders and a lasso of measuring tape and twine is slung over my arm.