<p>Back to the classic question. What are the lowest stats you've seen for a Stanford Admit? Lowest Rank, Gpa, Sat's etc. Urm's, Rec Aths, Legacies and the like are excluded. I'm especially interested in this year.</p>
<p>1980-SAT
26-ACT</p>
<p>But I guess my GPA and rank made up for it... I dunno
1/565
4.0 -unweighted
4.435 -weighted</p>
<p>hate to be ignorant...but whats a urm?</p>
<p>under represented minority=urm</p>
<p>URM = under represented minority :)
it's ok, nobody knows everything :P</p>
<p>Gaucho8: How competitive is your school?</p>
<p>Gaucho's a URM.</p>
<p>For most (ur)minorities or people in a low economic class, sat's are not very important. A rich kid can take a $2000 prep class which makes the playing field unfair. For (ur)minorities colleges tend to look at grades and more importantly rank-which gaucho8 obviously dominated with. </p>
<p>So what about the kid with a 18/300 rank, 3.8 Gpa (less important than rank) and a 2100 Sat? (This isn't me, its hypothetical) Say he/she has some demonstrated "passion" (whatever that means). What do you think? I've never heard of a person with stats this low being admitted.</p>
<p>Come to think of it forget the whole first question. Has anyone heard of a kid with a rank outside of the top 10 being admitted? (in a school of 300-400) They always say "top 10%" but I don't think they go that low. I don't think they even dip low enough for the top 5%. What do you think?</p>
<p>Um, someone ranked 26 in my school out of 330 was admitted. So, there goes your theory.</p>
<p>My non-magnet public school has one kid in the top 10%, and i barely make the top 25% (4/17).</p>
<p>Pretty sure I'm the first kid ever from my school to apply to stanford, and I got waitlisted.</p>
<p>1 and 2 are going to Montana State (whoopiee.....) and 3 will probably get a basketball scholarship on some NAIA team.</p>
<p>yup I am a urm so maybe that's it lol..</p>
<p>I was accepted as 19/702. Rank #1 was the only other one accepted; rank 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 all rejected.</p>
<p>admissions are so weird...</p>
<p>maver1ck what were the circumstances around the 26/330? Do you know why they admitted him? Is your school a top boarding school?</p>
<p>this is the story at our school</p>
<p>me: 2230 SAT, ranked about 15/600 ------> rejected
friend: 2200 SAT, ranked 1/600 -----------> rejected
another girl: >2200 SAT, ranked 3/600 ----> accepted
another friend: >2100 SAT, ranked 20-ish/600 ---> accepted</p>
<p>dont assume stanford's admissions process is random, there is a method to the madness. from my experience, i dont think there is a school around that weighs the essay as heavily as does stanford. acceptees whose essays i have seen tend always to be amazing, and their stats dont have to astounding, i.e. 2300+ SAT's. </p>
<p>be careful when you throw around the tag of u-r-m and claiming that is the sole reason they have been accepted. it kind of devalues the accomplishment of being accepted into stanford, which is truly an extraordinary one. being accepted into stanford really shows that they are a unique and amazing individual, and they have potential to really become something in the future. </p>
<p>p.s. i'm going to cornell and i'm still stanford dreamin'.</p>
<p>No, URM doesn't devalue it. Well maybe it does, but thats beside the point. URM's often don't have the same access to SAT prep as a rich WASP. Colleges recognize that so the SAT isn't weighed as much. It doesn't matter if you are a URM or an athlete-either way you did something amazing to deserve admission to a school as great as Stanford.</p>