Turning HBS Essays into Stanford Essays
I’m thinking about writing the HBS essays first and then morphing them into Stanford essays. Will HBS essays highlighting leadership, consistent excellence, and reflectiveness help me any at Stanford or will the two sets of essays need to be completely different? What kind of tweaks do I need for Stanford?
Writing HBS first is good way to start b.c. it gets you thinking about key stories and events –but turning H into S essays is no simple retrofit. The easiest way –which sorta works, depending on your story set–is to come up w. a plate for Stan that can hold 3 or 4 H stories and other goodies, e.g. “Given my great luck in escaping from HELLHOLE COUNTRY [fill in the blank] thru the help of x y and z, one thing that matters to me is helping others in HELL. Exp. 1, in HELLHOLE had a big impact on me b.c. a b c, so did exp. 2. Exp 3, when I was helped by SAINTLY MENTOR, had a big impact on me b.c. of who I was at that time [be specific in terms of personal development] and how I changed [be specific] since then, I have also done 1 2 3 and grown in ways a b c d as a result of each event.”
but that essay will prob. only suck in two HBS essays, and you will need more ligaments, etc. etc. The essays dont need to be completly diff in terms of content, but they turnout pretty diff. Some kids say they “just” pasted H answers in to S, but that is often sloppy talking or bragging or outright BS, it aint no e-z process.
