<p>Congratulations Pastaboy!</p>
<p>I'm assuming you had a great essay and extracurricular activities! Also, never underestimate a really, really great recommendation letter. Those things are vital to admission.</p>
<p>^ I find that acceptance very "questionable." Maybe I am just a horribly cinical person, but I don't believe it.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 2320 (800/800/720 math)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800/780
[</em>] Rank: 15ish/100ish.
[<em>] APs (including this year's): 5, 5, 5, 4, will take a few more.
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Most difficult, or whatever the terminology is.
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: Probably about 20.
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Not really anything. AIME qualifier once, but I have no intention of studying math or science so I can't see that being decisive.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Music, political involvement, small-scale environmental advocacy, involved in local public schools.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Completely mundane summer job before senior year, fancy study abroad before junior year.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Very honest and unpolished. I thought the question about rejuvenation was stupid, so I made fun of it in my response.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: "One in a million."
[<em>] Counselor Rec: We're buddies.
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): None. White, upper-middle class female.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private, competitive, almost but not quite a Stanford feeder.
[<em>] Ethnicity: See above
[</em>] Gender: See above
[<em>] Income Bracket: High
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.
[<em>] Strengths: Personality, recommendations, test scores, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: Rank, outside activities, personality :-P
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: According to my counselor, they liked my essays.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: As an unhooked pseudo-achiever with significant legacy at another top-tier school, I was NOT expecting this acceptance, but thought I'd put my info up as both a beacon of hope for future applicants and a sign of how random this process can truly be.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Good luck to people waiting on March 31st decisions, especially those of you who didn't get into Stanford. I'm a firm believer that there's a degree of personality-matching in this process, so I think everyone ends up at a place that works.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Time received: just checked today around 9:30
Stats:
Fee Waiver Used?: yes
SAT I (by section): CR: 720 WR:620 M:650
SAT IIs: Math II: 650, Bio: 710
GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: my gpa is 4.54, do not know about weighted/unweighted
Rank: 1/225
ACT: did not take
APs: none
IBs: none
Senior Yr Courseload: calculus 2, intro chem, piano, tennis, careers
Number of Apps from Your School: ?
Other stats (Awards, etc.): honor roll straight through high school, national achievement finalist but not winner, community college's President's List
Subjective:
ECs listed on app: 4 summers library volunteering, founder and president of my high school's Save Darfur, pingpong club treasurer
Job/Work Experience: none
Essays (subject and responses): wrote at last minute, pretty poor in my opinion
Teacher Recs: Good, but not that great.
Counselor Rec: ehhh, not good as it should have been
Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): did not get one.
Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): none.
Location/Person:
State or Country: California
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): who knows
Ethnicity: African American/ Asian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: middle-low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): (Repeated question)
Strengths: GPA, college course load
Weaknesses: SAT, essays, recs
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I'm an excellent student with a high GPA, and a full college transcript even though i'm still in high school.
Other Factors:
i'm sure being a low income african american helped. =)
And I've taken community college classes since 9th grade. and I'm only 16 now.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>
<p>Wow 8parks11 really has me stumbled</p>
<p>a professional high school programmer and he made $ 10k !</p>
<p>Son was ACCEPTED. Not sure if all the rest matters.</p>
<p>Even better, this is to get the suspense rolling. Its going to be us soon!</p>
<p>OMG I THOUGHT THERE WASNT ONE FROM LAST YEAR!!!
AHHHH this is so beneficial!</p>
<p>Some of these are pretty scary. But I can see why the accepted students were accepted.</p>
<p>yea i know me too
but for those who were rejected, it just seems completely random lol</p>
<p>no lol'ing for me. this is freaking intense! and yeah, i agree; the acceptees speak for themselves but...a lot of the rejectees seem equally worthy from everything posted here</p>
<p>Hmmmm...</p>
<p>Nhsharvard, how did you get in with your standardized test scores?</p>
<p>ACT: 27 (E:29, M:29, other sections were weaker)
SAT: 1640 (V:520, M:630, W:490)</p>
<p>I guess this shows (to everyone out there), that TEST SCORES DO NOT matter as much as they are thought. boo.</p>
<p>Does this mean no SAT IIs taken?</p>
<p>ive read through this thread like 3 times and i still cant find any common traits among the people accepted. ok they all have great scores, but the people rejected also had near perfect scores.
essay seems really important. everyone seemed to have the same ecs so i dont think dats such a major factor. some people were just unique cases.</p>
<p>dpattzlover, I believe nhsharvard has stated (on multiple threads) that he didn't get into Stanford, and that he's a student at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Lol, okay.</p>
<p>it seems a lot more cc people were accepted last year.</p>