I'm a Stanford student, AMA (especially for entrepreneurial applicants)!

Organized with steve_nyc.

• I wanted to go to Stanford because of silicon valley and startups.

• I've read the admissions comments on my application! (How?). Reading them made me better at identifying what Stanford looks for.

• Applied only to Stanford, EA.

• High school: Low-Mid 2300 SAT, 800 Math II and Physics, class rank 1/250

• What was on my app? My hobbies (startup related things, making money and building things since ~13). Also other random shit that I was interested in (I always had a lot of interests)

• I managed to demonstrate independence and self-awareness and good thinking elsewhere in my application, though only partially through my essays, which were actually (in hindsight) pretty bad.

I think what Steve is doing with his website is great. Oh, and if I had to recommend one book on applications -- it would be 'How to be a high school superstar'. I didn't read this before I applied, I actually read it afterwards, but it matched well when I compared it to the background of all the accepted students I knew.

So, ask me anything. Most of my friends are entrepreneurial and/or CS oriented so I can be best helpful towards similar applicants, but I should be able to offer comments for all :)

(I've talked to a bunch of my entrepreneurially oriented friends, a few of whom have dropped out and are building companies, about their applications -- and I think I'd be able to do a solid job at chancing someone who fits into the startup interest category, so happy to do that over PM.)

Please keep everything else in public unless the question really has to be private in which case PM is suitable.

Ask me about: getting in, Stanford, startups, thoughts on life (I spend a lot of time thinking about what's important to spend time on, and for me it is not classes), etc.