Student Talk / Application Question January [127]

today is 1/2 so if your college deadline is 1/2 you have to submit it before 12EST today. which sucks for us west coast people. we lose 3 hours :|

Undergraduate / Common Application Essay - My Father [2]

I think you do too much telling and not enough showing. Also be sure that this essay focuses on YOU not your father. The admissions people don't want to know about your father, they want to know about you.

Essays / Very confused on my Thesis statement. AP Euro History class [7]

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries some women began to break the social norm as they ventured into the world of sciences, and these women were met with a world wind of conflicting attitudes

you mean whirlwind?

I think the thesis works though. It talks about your points and an organized manner.

Undergraduate / Stanford--why a good place for you? ("stereotypical Asian parents") [9]

I think that talking about stereotypical Asian parents is too cliche