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What you get back
Reader's verdict
71/100
Competitive
The essay proves your story. The activities list and the Stanford supplement don't carry it yet.
Weak
Developing
Competitive
Distinctive
Four fixes from Distinctive.
By section
Personal statement
A real scene, a real person, and an ending that earns its last line; one paragraph tells what the next one shows.
78Why Stanford?
Polite and interchangeable; it names no class, lab or person.
56Activities
Five entries, one result. The list describes jobs, not what changed because you did them.
54Honors
Honest and in order; two of three say nothing a reader outside your school can picture.
66Adds up to one person
The essay and the repair activity describe one person. The documentation entry and the supplement could belong to anyone.
72
Red flags · 1 of 2
Activities
Hours that don't add up
“Volunteer, Public Library (10, 11) 15 hr/wk, 20 wk/yr”
Fifteen hours a week at the library beside fifteen for tennis and eight for robotics is 38 hours on top of school. A reader will doubt the whole column.
Fix 1 of 4 · Activity 1
“Wrote and maintained build documentation for the team.”
The result is missing
Your essay says these notes found the jam that cost you regionals. This entry gives a reader nothing to check.
HowLead with the result: “[what the notes caught] across [N] builds; [who] relied on them.”
Good job · 1 of 3
Personal statement
A detail only you could write
“she handed me a screwdriver and a cup of chai and said, “So. Fix it.””
Specific, physical, and funny. A reader remembers the chai. Keep every word.
What gets read.
Personal statement
- Is the opening a scene or a thesis.
- Does a paragraph say what a later one shows.
- Does the ending add a thought.
- Length against the limit.
Every supplement
- Read against its own prompt.
- Did you answer the question asked.
- Could the school's name be swapped for another's.
Activities, all ten slots
- Each marked Strong, Needs work or Fix.
- Duties where a result should be.
- Hours that add up to more than a week has.
- Your strongest entry buried at #7.
Honors
- Levels that are honest.
- Repeats wasting a slot.
- Order.
The whole file
- Does it add up to one person.
- What the essay claims against what the list shows.
What to keep
- The lines a reader will remember, marked so you don't edit them away.
It catches what your friends won't tell you.
From a sample read. Every finding quotes the file it came from.
Questions
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