<p>I recently came across rumors that a majority of Stanford's student are Caucasian and come from wealth "preppy" backgrounds. I would have never thought Stanford would house such elitist self-selection practices. Tell me, do low-come Asian students have any chance at all of getting into StanforD?</p>
<p>rofl a good half of the kids i know who go to stanford are said “low-come [sic] Asian students”…the others are high income Asian students</p>
<p>the caucasian thing is definitely false. Stanford’s actually really racially diverse. </p>
<p>As for the high income thing? Well, at least 40% of Stanford students aren’t even financial aid candidates, which basically means at least 40% of them make a good 200K+, so I think the preppy wealthy thing has some truth to it.</p>
<p>the caucasian thing is definitely false. Stanford’s actually really racially diverse. </p>
<p>As for the high income thing? Well, at least 40% of Stanford students aren’t even financial aid candidates, which basically means at least 40% of them make a good 200K+, so I think the preppy wealthy thing has some truth to it.</p>
<p>If your qualified, write good essays, have good co-curriculars and good recs you will get in, if not it wasn’t meant to be. Don’t try to blame anyone but yourself.</p>
<p>Stanford is well known as a color blind school. Enough said. Next time please be kind enough to cite your source of the rumour.</p>
<p>You won’t find tons of poor kids at the Ivies, or at other top schools like Duke and Georgetown either. Stanford is always on the list as a top school for Hispanics, and they certainly aren’t all rich.</p>
<p>Look on the CDS and you will see the % of those getting financial aid. You’ll also see some breakdowns on race, though I have found that Asians are seriously underreported, as the info used is self reported and if an applicant/student does not report himself as a certain race it does not come up. Having walked the campus, it seemed to me that Asians were very well represented. Look up what % of kids are getting PELL and that will give you an idea as to how many are below poverty level who go there. I believe the % is 15-20% getting PELL.</p>
<p>Here are the demographics of the class of 2016 from the Stanford News (see below)
36% are white
23% are Asian
“Preppy kids” are generally more of a southern, midatlantic, NorthEastern thing, and not really a CA thing so the total from below is 29% “might” be prepster.
So you some facts below and you can make your own decision.
An overload of “Prepsters” in CA…that cracks me up!</p>
<p>PS. At UC Berkeley, the mix is 42% Asian and 24% white.</p>
<p>[Stanford</a> welcomes Class of 2016 and incoming transfer students](<a href=“You've requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News”>You've requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News)
Class of 2016 by the numbers</p>
<p>The largest group of incoming students – 38.1 percent – graduated from California high schools.</p>
<p>The next top five regions represented in the class are the South (15.1 percent); international students and U.S. students who completed high school studying abroad (9.7 percent); the Mid-Atlantic (9.2 percent); Far West – Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii (8 percent); and the Mid-West (7.8 percent). The other regions are Mountain States (6.3 percent); New England (3.7 percent); and the Great Plains (1.8 percent).</p>
<p>Within the incoming freshmen class, 90.5 percent are U.S. citizens and 2.1 percent are permanent residents of the United States. International students with foreign visas comprise 7.4 percent of the incoming class.</p>
<p>The Class of 2016 is composed of 52.8 percent men and 47.2 percent women.</p>
<p>Among the incoming freshmen, 13.3 percent are first-generation students – the first in their families to attend a four-year college.</p>
<p>Within the Class of 2016, 13.1 percent of the freshmen are intercollegiate athletes.</p>
<p>Whites make up 36.1 percent of incoming freshmen, followed by students who identify as Asian American (22.7 percent); African American (8 percent); unknown – those who declined to state their race or ethnicity (7.7 percent); international (7.5 percent); Mexican American (7.4 percent); other Hispanic (6.5 percent); and Native American and Hawaiian (4.1 percent).</p>
<p>Hmmm I’m a low to average income asian and I got in, so I’d say you do have a chance:)</p>
<p>I’m a low income Asian and I got in. I really think the essays made the difference.</p>
<p>We are low income, my daughter is multicultural, (half Korean and half caucasian), and she got in. But, because of the “Model Minority” label, Asians and Asian/Caucasians do have to have better stats, (usually), than their non Asian peers to get accepted to Stanford and other Ivies.</p>
<p>I think that California (especially the Palo Alto area) is a relatively expensive place to live, and Stanford’s class is 40% Californians or something crazy like that.</p>
<p>A lot of people from my school and nearby schools got in, whereas very few people I know got into the ivies.</p>
<p>^ FWIW, when you adjust for regional population size, you’d find that every school is very regional, often more so than Stanford (e.g. Harvard drew 17% of its class from New England, which makes up only 4.5% of the US population; Stanford drew 36% or so from California, which makes up 12% of the US population. You can cut the regions any way you want, and you’d usually find Stanford is slightly less regional than its peers).</p>
<p>Not sure if answering the OP still matters, but for those interested, see [url=<a href=“http://facts.stanford.edu/academics/undergraduate-profile]Stanford”>Undergraduate Student Profile - Facts]Stanford</a> Facts 2013<a href=“white%20students%20are%20outnumbered%20by%20non-white%20students%20nearly%202:1;%20over%2080%%20of%20the%20current%20undergrad%20population%20receives%20some%20form%20of%20financial%20assistance,%20and%20about%2020%%20are%20Pell%20Grant%20recipients,%20i.e.%20are%20low-income%20students”>/url</a>.</p>
<p>However, if every qualified Asian student was admitted to Stanford, the freshman class would be almost 100% Asian. The bar is set higher for Asians than any other group, including Caucasians.</p>
<p>That over 80% receives financial aid doesn’t really indicate much, because a family can make $150,000 a year and still qualify for some aid. Now, being PELL Grant eligible is a true indicator of low income.</p>
<p>I visited Stanford last summer. There were all kinds of people there. It was really cool.</p>
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<p>The point wasn’t to show that most are low-income students, but rather that most students are not ‘rich,’ as the OP was asking. I would not say that $150k qualifies you as rich, at least not at Stanford’s price.</p>
<p>I suppose that it is really a matter of perspective. In my opinion, $150,000 qualifies in the range of “rich”, especially compared to the typical Pell Grant cut-off at around $60,000 a year.</p>
<p>I’m a Stanford senior.</p>
<p>There are rich white preppy kids. Like at most schools. There aren’t as many as you might think. More importantly, there are a lot of awesome diverse people. Including those rich white preppy kids. They are awesome too.</p>
<p>I’m Mexican from a middle class background. I fit in just fine.</p>