<p>cooljoe,</p>
<p>get a life</p>
<p>the reason he got into stanford was because stanford genuinely wants him in the incoming class</p>
<p>?!!?!?!</p>
<p>maybe he's a legacy dating back to the founding, or hes's an eskimo, and just never told you. or he's ultra rich and capable of donating a library.</p>
<p>I agree with ktcv. There had to be a reason; it's probably something you don't know about. Stanford admissions does not, to my knowledge, try to fill each class with supergenius international award winners. They try to fill the class with a wide range of interesting, smart students with great potential. At least, this is my assumption, because year after year, that's exactly what they do.</p>
<p>Completely agree with the above notion. It seems that Stanford looks for potential rather than the already accomplished applicants for admission. This goes to the idea that Stanford wants people to benefit from its resources - the accomplished people can go anywhere and will do just fine.</p>
<p>Really....the only surprising thing is the lack of ECs. His SAT and class rank, while not extremely impressive for Stanford, would definitely make the "first cut". Also, he seems like the kind of person who you might want to hang out with. Furthermore, you don't know what he wrote in his essays. I say this, Stanford isn't stupid, so don't question it's decision.</p>
<p>I don't no about that fred. They rejected a brilliant usamo qualifier from my school while accepting a rich urm with inferior credentials who everyone knows lied about how being in a car crash or something changed his life when no such thing ever happened to him. The usamo guy had a 4.5 gpa, 2380 sat, and 12 aps with calc bc in eighth grade while the urm guy had a 4.1 with a not very challenging courseload and no spectacular extracurriculars. What sense does it make to take a slightly above average student(with no integrity) over a brilliant one whose supposedly one of the top 100 mathematicians his age in the U.S.</p>
<p>Perhaps because Stanford doesn't want the ultra-academic people? So he has 12 APs. That doesn't necessarily mean he has more potential in college. Maybe he had no personality except talking about his academics (I've seen this). Colleges are focused on the social as well as the academic.</p>
<p>Ive seen this alot. wats with asians being a factor towards admission.. what about me? I'm indian.. thats in asia lol</p>