She still needs to take the SAT. It is interesting to see if stanford rejects her for any reasons.
http://abc7news.com/education/nobel-prize-winner-malala-yousafzai-vying-for-spot-at-stanford/980202/
Nope. A Nobel is about as strong a hook as being Chelsea Clinton.
Agreed. Malala is going to the school of her choice, as is Malia.
I think a Nobel Prize should do it. 
I believe that both Malala and Malia are very good students as well
Let’s just say Malala scores a pitiful 20th percentile on the SAT. Would she still get in?
That is unlikely to be the case, so speculation is pointless.
sigh Well there goes a spot
The odd thing about this article to me is that it does not say that she made a request to not be required to submit the SAT. I would think she is the type of person who would not want any special treatment. I am sure she will do fine, and they will admit her. I don’t see why it is a big deal. They would probably admit her if she just sat there for three hours an guessed B on every question. No one will ever know. The point is that they can say she took it, just like everyone else. I don’t understand why she can’t take the ACT instead though.
The challenge she will have is that colleges are very strict about who the letters of recommendations are from. Only ONE can be from a non-academic source. The other two have to be from a humanities teacher, a science/math teacher and the guidance counselor.
It would be a lot different if they allowed her to have multiple references to talk about her accomplishments, since it would be a shame to have even a slight risk that her math/science rec cancel out her rec from the head of the Nobel committee.
I don’t really know how this may work with regards to the recs, I mean did Chelsea Clinton get her dad to write one? (quite the hook, that.)
There is a “likely letter” admission policy at some schools including Stanford. Not exactly sure the exact statements but similar to the following:
1.) When the admission officers read this particular application, they don’t have to compare this application to the rest of applications.
2.) The applicant would be accepted by most of the peer schools.
3.) ? ~ don’t remember the 3rd statement.
She does not need the SAT scores unless her application is incomplete without SAT scores.
Malala Yousafzai is high “hooked”, in the true sense of the word: admitting her brings something very positive to the university in terms of publicity and image for being the preferred schools of people who are about making a difference in the world. Her SAT scores are almost irrelevant. Unless the adcom feels that her English proficiency and intellectual capacity are such that she would be hopelessly lost on campus and would become an embarrassment due to poor performance, they have much more to lose by admitting her than by accepting her. Could you imagine the press: "Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzi, who was turned down for admission at ultra-chic Stanford, will be matriculating at Yale this fall. Said Yale Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, ‘Yale is elated to be getting a person of Malala’s caliber, someone who has already proven that she is a difference maker at an international level and a role model for democracy and for young women everywhere. Stanford’s loss is Yale’s gain.’ " Ouch.
As a Stanford grad, I recall vividly the bump Stanford got in the national consciousness when Chelsea Clinton turned down HYP for Stanford. Turning away Malala would not be in the university’s best interest if she is at all qualified.
With regard to Malala’s academic qualifications, you can look up her GCSE exam results online. She got 6 A* grades and 4 A grades. The A* grades were mainly in science and mathematics. The GCSE exams are of a serious academic standard. They are taken about two years before A levels, which are the British university entrance qualification.
Speculations based on the supposition that she would not do well on the SAT are pointless.
This all seems to have started from some speculation made by some CBS News reporter. I attended an excellent talk by her this past June, and she is Class of 2017. She said she hadn’t firmed up her college list yet, but was considering majoring in Political Science perhaps at Oxford. Her family lives in Britain, and she seems very close to them. As QuantMech points out, she got great scores on her GCSE exams, but still needs to take her A levels.
Perhaps she spoke at Stanford and was nice enough to say that she might want to attend there. It was clear from the amount of security at her talk that arrangements for security on campus would be necessary. (Stanford has a good campus for that sort of thing, and has experience with Secret Service type protection, so it would make sense to have it on her list.)