<p>congrats!!!!!!</p>
<p>Gman - congrats, from all your posts on this forum, you deserve it.</p>
<p>Have a great time at Stanford!! Don't let anyone you interact with cloud what you set out to do as a teenager. Keep doing what your heart desires and eventually a lot more kids would benefit from the path you tread.</p>
<p>Congrats Gman!!! Great example of how testing isn't and shouldnt be everything</p>
<p>There are always going to be people who don't want you to succeed and will try and make you think less of your accomplishment. But you earned it. They don't matter.</p>
<p>Why would stanford want those kind of people at their school anyway lol?</p>
<p>congratulations op!</p>
<p>good job man!! for all those hating on you, it just shows why they were rejected and you were accepted. obviously they do not have the same moral character which you uphold yourself. congrats again on stanford 2012!!</p>
<p>Question the OP's judgement by opening this thread. Stanford might have made a mistake. What do you think if someone opens a thread with this title:" Getting in with no Extracurricular activities!"</p>
<p>what makes you think it's a "mistake". Stanford knows what's it's doing. It's not about only test scores. You hard core SAT fanatics just don't get it. It's about the TOTAL person.</p>
<p>^a TOTAL person needs good judgement. By opening this thread, the OP didn't show good judgement. Everybody makes mistakes, Stanford adcom is no exception. I am not a SAT fanatics and I thought it should be abolished.</p>
<p>I believe I get your point Professor101, but I think one of the differences here is that the OP did take the SAT and SAT IIs. The effort was there hard, but the OP did not do well (relative to the middle 50% at Stanford) for this reason or another… Stanford realized that this was just ONE area that did not favor the OP</p>
<p>If a person did not have any ECs and could communicate effectively the reasons behind it all, and Stanford not only understood this but also felt it did not detract from that applicant’s overall application or felt that this person is still someone we would want in this class, they take him or her I believe</p>
<p>There are people who are not able to participate in many, if any, extra-curricular activities for a myriad of reasons. Some reasons—perhaps they take care of a sickly parent or take care of siblings or can't go many places with their mom or dad being a single-parent working all the time—are more understandable and are very different than others </p>
<p>I am sure that that person does not see helping raise their younger siblings as an EC, but if it is something talked about in one of the essays, Stanford may see that the same characteristics (plus others) that are exhibited by a person leading a club/organization are in this applicant as he/she leads a household in some form or another</p>
<p>And if that person—I know they exist—gets into Stanford (any school for that matter), I would love to see them post on CC.
That is a testimony and inspiration for others who so desperately need it.
The people who would complain about this decision, in my opinion, lack a little bit of compassion.</p>
<p>Okay so if he got in.. what do you guys think are my chances being a non-mexican/puerto-rican hispanic.. (uruguayan)?</p>
<p>Total schools apping too=</p>
<p>Stanford
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
U Michigan
U Illinois
UT Austin
GA Tech
Rutgers
Purdue</p>
<p>Major: civ. eng.
3.5 unweighted gpa
2130 SAT specifically.. 720CR 710M 700W
Math 2c 780
Spanish w/ Listening .. also a 690 lol.. im also fluent.. that **** is hard
214 psat = national hispanic recognition program and national merit commended scholar.. NJ is TOUGH</p>
<p>i go to an elite high school Bergen</a> County Academies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just to give a taste of how good it is... in a class of 300 we so far have:
5 MIT
1 Stanford
1 Yale
1 Columbia
3 Cal Tech
2 Johns Hopkins
2 Cornell
1 Brown Accelerated Med
5 NYU</p>
<p>My courseload is pretty tough.. full honors / AP all four years</p>
<p>This year =
AP Physics C
AP Statistics
AP Calculus II
Honors Spanish 5
Honors World Lit II
Honors Engineering, Design, & Development
Various ******** electives and gym too</p>
<p>Also, every wednesday instead of going to school we have internships. Mine is pretty beast.. My mentor is NJ Senator and Professional Engineer Paul Sarlo and I do engineering and construction type stuff with the biggest construction company in Jersey.. I even get paidd.. He might even do recommendations for me. My other recs will be decent nothing special..</p>
<p>ECs = </p>
<p>Volleyball 4 Years.. I'm actually 6' 5" and still growing
Model UN .. Committee Chair
JSA .. debate type thing.. Best Speaker
~ 70 hrs volunteering at an Environmental Center
~ 20 hrs volunteering in-school
a lil bit of Math team..</p>
<p>Forgot to add that.. I'm First Generation College .. my dad didnt even finish HS and my mom barely did and my parents also had a recent divorce. It was official as of this past September.. does that help me at all?</p>
<p>Our President George Bush was accepted to Yale with a 566 verbal SAT score. He graduated with a C average and went on to Harvard Business School and became president of the US. But he was 5th generation Yale and legacy and money counts. I'm not sure many people are aware of this. So, I'm never upset when people like some of you rant about "fairness". Please, read the literature of the many, many undeserving and non-competitive wealthy kids who have gotten into these institutions every since they've existed.</p>
<p>that's real talk, lmpw.
plz repost that for all of the others rejected all over this cc website.
because some people still just don't get it.</p>
<p>Me, i've gotten over my rejection. Sure it took me about a week, a week of crying, anger, and utter hatred of the world, but know im over it. That's what you guys who are hating on this kid should do. Find something to vent your frustrations with, because hating on somebody else I think is the lowest way you can do it.</p>
<p>Hey OP:</p>
<p>I want you to know I shared your story with some of my friends/family. It was really inspiring, and I'm really glad Stanford accepted someone who would pass on HOPE to aspiring students!</p>
<p>op:
are you going to stanford?
are you even applying anywhere else?</p>
<p>Congratulations! I am happy for you. You give me hope- I'm from a middling school, and although I'm at the top, the top of what? This makes me feel so positive. Really good job. Felicitaciones y buena suerte.</p>
<p>yea good job op</p>
<p>you know, his stats were good. i resent anyone who wants to automatically blame his acceptance on affirmative action.</p>
<p>that said- op, i wanna be you so badly right now...</p>
<p>Congrats! Other than your test scores, everything else is fantastic about you! Don't listen to the haters.</p>
<p>sorry I haven't replied to several of your posts... been kinda busy and I'm sick as well. But thank you all for your kind thoughts portrayed through your posts. By the way, jmarin, I am without a doubt in my mind going to Stanford, (that is if they do not revoke my acceptance for some reason), since it has been my dream school for a long time. I had already applied to other schools before I had gotten my acceptance to Stanford. That list of schools includes UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, Santa Clara (reminds me a lot of Stanford), Saint Mary's, University of Pacific, Dominican, and University of San Francisco. I was also planning on applying to Boston U, and Boston College, really diverse campuses; diversity is really important to me. But if all goes well and Stanford does not withdraw my acceptance, then I'll be attending Stanford.</p>
<p>Anyways though, thank you all once again for your posts, I wish you all the best of luck where ever it is you all attend.</p>
<p>Happy Holidays and have an awesome New Year!</p>
<p>Way to go. Congratulations! Good luck in the future. It comforts me to know someone like you got this opportunity.</p>