<p>there is hope yet....</p>
<p>Hey.. I was accepted SCEA this year and got my letter a few weeks ago. I was recruited for track. 33 ACT, 750 Math IIC, 760 Writing, and 710 Literature.
I think one or two of my short answers were pretty funny, but my large essay was serious. I really don't think that humor is a big factor in the essay writing at all. If it's there then good, but if its not then whatever..the worst thing to have is a non-funny person attempted to make jokes, ya know.</p>
<p>I believe my son's school has been blackballed by Stanford, too. I guess you could say we're a bit bitter about Stanford, though. Last year, 3 kids from my son's h.s. applied. My son, who has wanted Stanford his entire life, applied SCEA. He was the only early applicant, and Stanford deferred him. I guess they wanted to see if there were better applicants from his h.s. I guess there were, becasue they accpeted the other two applicants, and ultimatley rejected my son. saddest part of the story is that the two who were accpeted both went elsewhere--Yale and Harvard, and my son was heartbroken. BTW, his stats were : 1540 SAT 800 W, 790 Bio, 770 Math IIC, 800 Lit, 800 US Hist. Took 11 APs and scored 5s on all. National Merit Finalist. Tons of leadership including sports and student gov't, founded two school clubs, has his own business, composes classical music that has been performed by our (large) city's symphony, fantastic teacher recs (really fantastic), has tutored underserved kids for 4 years, etc. It almost seems like they said "Two from one small school is enough--who shall we reject?" I guess it doesn't really matter though--he got in to 3 other Ivy's, plus Williams and Amherst. Still, I think Stanford's admissions policies will only improve with Robin Mamlet far, far away.</p>
<p>oh my lord....</p>
<p>I know cindy! Hold me! Hold me with those 1600-stained hands!!!!</p>
<p>I'm not stained, you crazed wrestle-happy child!! ;)</p>
<p>prepdude, that's terrible. How were his essays? What school is he attending now?</p>
<p>Jensull, what kind of achievements do you have in athletics? Do you have to be like competent enough for the NCAA competitions to be considered for early read?</p>
<p>There is an athletic profile you can fill out on their website and they'll contact you if they're interested. At least tahts what I did... I throw the hammer independently bc they dont offer it in MA highschools.... I can't compete so i guess just my PR was what interested them..it depends on what event you do whether or not you should be at the NCAA level yet.</p>
<p>do you have the link to that page? thanks!</p>
<p>just pick whatever sport you're interested in and on the right hand side it should say Recruiting Questionaire as one of the links.</p>