Feel like I’m overthinking my “why Stanford” essay. How much of the essay should be contextualising what my future goal is and how much of it should be why Stanford? 50-50??

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Reworking mine. We got this 😤🥲💪🏽

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Think this can be subjective depending on your story but based on what I’ve done it’s around 50-50

Mines 70-30 which is why I feel like I’m stressing about it 😅😅

Mine’s 50-50. I feel like I should write less about the second part but then I read the two-word prompt again 🧐

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