Who are you talking about?
I wouldn’t say that DinaZhang. Its just that Stanford looks at more than just grades, they realize that little differences in SAT and GPA mean pretty much nothing.
PS: How much is ‘lower stats’? I had a 4.0 UW GPA and in SAT 800Math 700CR and 2 800 in SAT2 and one 740, sure some people may have had higher but the difference would mean extremely little to nothing which Stanford realizes.
SAT’s: Math: 800 (720 at age 12), CR: 730, Writing: 790
Sat II’s: Math IIC (or whatever it is now): 800
Physics: 700
US History: 660 I think
Spanish: 670 Or so.
GPA- 3.45 unweighted, 3.99 weighted.
Rank: School does not rank, but would have been in top 10%.
Ap’s - Euro: 5; Stat: 5; Calc - BC 4(5 subscore for AB), Econ - 5 micro, 4 macro; Psych: 5
Personal - Went to a magent school that is ranked as one of the best (and most competitive) in the country. White female. Was not born in America and live in CA.
ECS -
2 years - photo club
1 year - Worked as a TA for Sunday school
2 years - tennis
3 years - Jewish club, two years as President.
3 years - Organized, ran, and fundraised for an international clothes drive
2 years - CSF life member
1 year - Library TA
2 years - Took classes at EPGY
4 years - Various math competitions including one at Pomona. Usually placed.
4 years - volunteered at JCC
2 years - Dance
2 years - Tutored (on my own, no program or anything organized) math
Spent a summer in Spain, studying.
Essays- Completely blew off my Stanford essay (made mistakes in it on purpose, etc.) to make chance of acceptance negative. “Forgot” to send in test results to UCLA for the same reason. According to people who read my essays they were beautifully written and very unusual. I decided to risk it and wrote them in a very un-essay style that I’m more comftorable in. I also incorporated a lot of my dry humor into the essays and tried to make them more about me.
Interviews - Skipped on interviews for college, but did have one for scholarship at USC. Sadly, got sick two days before and now can’t actually remember anything that happened. Apparently, I did well. Sure.
Recs - English and math teacher (also my math coach at the same time) wrote stellar rec’s. Councellor had no idea who I was since she was very new and basically didn’t write one.
Results - Didn’t get into UCLA and Stanford. (Apparently I would have gotten into UCLA if they had my scores. Which is why they didn’t have them. 
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Got into UCSC, UCD, UCSB, UCSD, and Claremont McKenna. Also got into USC with 50% scholarship and will be going there. CMC is still bothering me about why I’m not going to their school.
DinaZhang I dont know how did you get that conclusion, all the perfect scores in this thread got into top tier schools, and the acceptance rate of 2300s is greater too based on this thread’s data
D&G= wowza!
shyshadow, no need to make excuses. For example, you don’t even need to send test scores to UCLA until after you are accepted. You are so arrogant I thought you were a boy! 
well, maybe I got the wrong conclusion
but, lets see
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=215577&page=5&highlight=Stanford[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=215577&page=5&highlight=Stanford</a>
on that page, we can find a kid got in , and another got rejected…and some other kids in almost the same situation.
and their scores are just like what I mentioned…
You really can’t draw any conclusions based on that…
Shy
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Why didn’t you just say “I’m not applying here. I’m my own person”. If it was a parental thing than I’m sure they woulda been more proud of that than you being sneaky about it like that…sorry it’s just weird to me [me being blunt]. Great stats tho and congrats on ur acceptance and scholarship
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hah, maybe its kind of arbitrary…
I was just wondering, and no fault with that, right?
Stanford was my Dad’s dream. The fact that I had no chance and didn’t want to go there didn’t stop him. And I wanted to make sure there was no chance of me getting in. Probably didn’t even have to, with my rather low gpa. Councellor forced me to apply to UCLA. My mom actually did know that I had made sure my chances were zilch, seeing as how she was the one who helped me. And then I got teased at school for not getting into UCLA, so rather defensive about it now.
i c, i c, tough situation.
D&G, what does your username stand for? I think I know…
DinaZhang, the person with over 2300 got into 2 ivies, its very good already
Accepted: Notre Dame, Northwestern, UT-Austin (w/partial scholarship), Texas A&M (w/ full scholarship)
Waitlisted, then accepted: Rice (attending)
Rejected: Yale, Princeton, MIT, UChicago
My Stats:
School Type: Competitive suburban public
Location:Texas
Race: Caucasian
Old SAT: 720 M 800 CR
New SAT: 670 M 760 CR 740 W
SAT IIs:
Writing: 750
Literature: 780
Physics: 700
Math IIc: 740
Chem: 740
GPA (W): 4.01 (For 100=4.0, 99=3.9, 85=2.5, etc. with 10 pts extra for H/AP)
Not sure about unweighted, honestly
National Merit Scholar (PSAT 236)
AP Scholar
APs: Calc BC - 5, Physics C:M - 5, Physics C:E&M - 5, English Lit - 4, Chem - 5, Macro Economics - 4, English Lan - 5, Spanish Lan - 4, Statistics - 5
ECs:
Played piano for ten years
Violin since 5th grade
Boy Scouts through high school (Should have Eagle soon, but that’s a different story)
Young Democrats 10-12
NHS 11-12 (Treasurer in 12)
Amnesty International 12 (Treasurer)
Church Youth 10-12
French Club (just because) 11-12
Schools:
Accepted: MIT, Stanford (Attending), Cornell, UC Berkeley, Penn (Jerome Fisher), Harvard, Caltech, Princeton
Ethnicity: Russian
Gender: Female
GPA: 3.76
SAT: 790 Math, 760 Critical Reading, 800 Writing
SATII: 800 Math IIC, 800 Physics, 800 Biology
AP’s: 5’s on Calculus BC, Physics B, Physics C E/M, Computer Science AB, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental Science, Statistics
Major: Aerospace Engineering/Bioengineering/Management Science and Engineering
Awards:
AP National Scholar
National Merit Finalist
Siemens Award for Advanced Placement
USABO Semifinalist
AIME Qualifier
Activities:
Captain of Girls Varsity Tennis Team
President of Math and Science Club
Vice-President of National Honor Society
Journalism
Founder and President of BodyPerfect, a school run organization promoting awareness of eating disorders and facilitating discussions on body image and self-esteem for teenagers.
Organized school benefit school fashion shows in conjunction with BodyPerfect, donating funds to both local and international charities.
Worked as a Teacher’s Assistant in an English as a Second Language Camp in Russia.
Jobs/Occupations:
Teen Modeling Agency
Newspaper Internship
In conclusion, you don’t need an insane grade point average to shoot for your dream schools. Be who you are, and everything will work out in the end. If anyone has questions, feel free to PM me :).
Jimbob: Dolce and Gabbana!
youll make this thread polittical ina bout two seconds
shyshadow:
Even if you sent your SAT scores to UCLA,
UCLA: Slight Reach
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Who doesn’t? As a fellow fashion lover myself, I enjoy Versace and Prada quite a bit :).