Stanford08 taking questions

jiwang4

Well, I have paid my price for my romantic side.  Luckily (or un-luckily?), she is the most un-romantic person I ever know, and she always keeps me in check!

By the way, when I wrote that long letter many years ago, I had not met her yet (it was a blind date through a friend, and letter was the only way for communication even we were in the same school).  I was just being honest about myself and tried to help her know me as a whole person.  "文章如行云流水，一气呵成。不过，这种用心，真的是可遇不可求，所谓的用心，也就是在某一点，因为某件事的触发，而感情向奔流的河水，落堤而下。"

Please do not assume you have to be romantic enough to apply Stanford!

 As Tuxiaoyang said about his essay: not sure what (Stanford) wants, just hope to present self in the best / genuine way.  If it happens to match, great!

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-12-13 23:26:52编辑过]

lancome130

Tu Xiaoyang 是我师兄，我们学校的骄傲，看到今年招了这么多Tsinghua的，我终于有一点感觉了，原来要的学生是这种风格的-“不主动，不拒绝，不负责”-女生们一致对Tsinghuan男生们的总体概括

jiwang4

LOL.

I do have two TH girls working together, and they are very aggressive, and certainly not "dinossars".

jiwang4

Stanford and Columbia are my two favorite schools.  They are very different, but I have enough reasons to love both of them.  I kind of wish Columbia should have had coorporation with Stanford instead of Berkeley, so I could spend time on both campuses (only if I can get in one of them! ).

djcong

dont suggest to use relatives or close friends as the recommender, even for stanford application......i remember adcom explicitely discourages to do so...in your essays, you can definitely combine lots of personal and touching stuff with some career-wise points, but for recommendation letters, please be cautious, after all, you are applying to b-school, and recommenders are supposed to give an objective evaluation on your career development and potential.

jiwang4

djcong,

You are correct.  There are enough rooms in the essays, and the letters should be very professional.  I got carried away  

I am in US and don't know anybody near applying MBA, so I try to get her (a very unique, gifted person to say the least) involved, kind of brainstorming I guess.

Thanks and hope you can share more of your experience.

来得及时

Agree with djcong.  Finding a recommendation writier is a very hard job, no doubt. 
I wish you can use your wife as one, but I have two cautions:

1.  Your wife may not do it, or do it in a way that you won't like, or be influence too much by you during writing.

2.  Stanford does not appreciate this.  They do not want anyone related to you writing this.  If I am wrong, please post here some official document they have on their
web page that says you can do so. 

lancome130

大家怎么看what matters you most这篇呢？传说中有一个jj写了“My husband”,被录了。对这篇文章，我至今仍在困惑之中。

happyme

Lancome130, i think the "husband" essay is probablly really sincere.  she probablly expressed her true feelings that touched the members of the adcom.

lancome130

以下是引用jiwang4在2006-12-14 0:31:00的发言：

LOL.

I do have two TH girls working together, and they are very aggressive, and certainly not "dinossars".

算了，我还是把说的delete，否则以后ts女生嫁不出去要责怪我的。

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