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Common App & Stanford Essays

The following are my responses to the main Common App essay and the Stanford application questions. You're welcome to read them to try and understand how I got "in" to Stanford, or just for fun. Whatever you choose to try and take away from these essays, I hope you get something out of them. Or nothing at all, that works too. Enjoy.

A Brief Note

There's no secret formula. There are a lot of people more qualified than me that got denied. Even though they may have been more qualified, I beat them when it came to the essays. The most important part of your application is your essays, so I would encourage you to spend a lot of time on them. Spend time reflecting on who you are and how you can use your essays to communicate that. The readers of the over 40,000 Stanford applicants know a fake essay from a mile away. If you want to have a chance at admission, your essays need to be 100% authentic you, not 90% authentic you and 10% your mom/tutor/fake self.

If you plan to apply, I

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<map proto="1.3.5">
<name>Double TNT</name>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<objective>Destroy 70% of the enemy's TNT and leak their core in the TNT to win!</objective>
<authors>
    <author>dcsharp</author>
</authors>
<contributors>
    <contributor contribution="Inventory From">last_username</contributor>

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<map proto="1.3.3">
<name>Q*Boid</name>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<objective>Capture and kill players to get 300 points to win the game.</objective>
<authors>
    <author>CoWinkKeyDinkInc</author>
</authors>
<teams>
  <team color="blue" max="16">Blue Team</team>
  <team color="dark red" max="16">Red Team</team>

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I've been looking for what other maps play like, for example Hydrolock II, and I'm sure others want to see what other maps that are on the [map repo][1] play like, or for reference on building a good map, or finding some other maps to add to the rotations. So I made this thread so people might find it.

All you have to do is record a good amount of the map being played, a match that is not rushed (if it commonly happens, than you could put that here) and that's it! You can have commentary in English or Spanish, or none, it does not matter. I hope that we could have recordings of almost all the maps that are in the map repo. A backup of this thread can be found [here][2].

DTM

• Anathema recorded by [Just117][3]
• Atromix recorded by [rackmc100][4]
• A Watery Grave recorded by [ItzaMeLuigi_][5]
• Balloons DTM recorded by [CacklingPanda][6]
• Balloons DTM: Halloween

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<map proto="1.3.0">
<name>Oculo</name>
<version>1.1</version>
<objective>Eliminate the other team before 10 minutes is up.</objective>
<authors>
    <author>CoWinkKeyDinkInc</author>
    <author contribution="XML Editing">ElectroidFilms</author>
</authors>
<rules>