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<p>According to someone at Harvard, she is not excelling, or doing well for that matter.</p>
<p>What does that mean?</p>
<p>Supposedly she is struggling in some of her classes. I'm not sure who it was that said it, but I'm certain they are a near regular poster here.</p>
<p>That's insane.</p>
<p>Most likely humanities classes.</p>
<p>EDIT: If that's true.
DOUBLE EDIT: I hope you don't mind that I'm spamming your inbox.</p>
<p>I'm a bit late, but might as well...</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 690 CR, 760 Math, 790 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II, Biology E, 780 Chemistry, 750 World History
[<em>] GPA: Approximately 3.83 UW, 4.08 W
[</em>] Rank: We don't rank, but I'm top 10%
[<em>] Other stats: 36 ACT (36,36,36,35)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I think they're pretty good. Intellectual Vitality is a bit bland, roommate is creative and wacky, Why Stanford is nothing like they have ever seen before, Common App is original (but could be better), and the activity "essay" is the best thing I have ever written.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Should be good. One of my teachers is a club advisor, the other I have had for two years. I also had an optional sent, and the person is an advisor for two clubs.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also should be good. Unlike the other counselors, mine only had a few competitive people apply, so he could spend more energy on my rec. And I think he liked me.
[<em>] Hook (if any): music, if anything. It is a major part of almost all of my activities (orchestra, dragon team, trivia team, jazz band, . I also sent in an arts supplement (composition)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese (:()
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments: I'm happy enough that I'm deferred, but some of my best friends got deferred - and they have better grades, stats, and more impressive activities than me! My school got the shaft (8 applied; 6 rejected, 2 deferred). There is no way that all eight of us are less qualified than everyone who got in. (end bitterness)</p>
<p>Anyways, congratulations to all of those who got in! And to all of the deferred, good luck during the RD round.</p>
<p>Oh, Stanford was brutal to my school too.</p>
<p>5 applied. 3 were rejected, and 2 were deferred - one of the deferred students has a legacy hook, and the other a quarter-Native American hook.</p>
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That's insane.</p>
<p>Most likely humanities classes.</p>
<p>EDIT: If that's true.
DOUBLE EDIT: I hope you don't mind that I'm spamming your inbox.
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<p>I'm not sure, I think it was someone who posted in this thread, actually, or the other thread concerning what Stanford wanted. I'm also pretty certain they indicated they were from Cambridge. So trawl those threads to find them, and ask.</p>
<p>And no, I never mind inbox spam.</p>
<p>Also, Stanford was brutal to my school as well. We had a 0% acceptance rate, with a deferral counting as a .5 in the numerator.</p>
<p>I honestly don't know about this year. Normally I'd say it's impossible to quantify who's more qualified or not, since you'll probably never know the full picture, as in, not only essays/recs/etc, but the "luck" part, as if magically some aspect of a personality or EC just happened to fit that year.</p>
<p>Normally, though. This year, for some reason, I too, think that race played a much bigger role in admissions, looking at my school / a couple other local one's statistics.</p>
<p>More on it later; I'm going to bed.</p>
<p>Wow, Invoyable's on Stanford! :D Nice</p>
<p>From my school all of my friends who applied SCEA (3) got in. Which is slightly odd since only one of them was absolutely amazing, and many of you were more qualified than the other two. They're all White (Jewish).</p>
<p>amciw: No, I'm not going to go looking for them. That's weird.</p>
<p>That's really terrible for your school though. I'm sorry. :[ I know there was one year that Duke and Harvard SLAUGHTERED mine. A lot of hopes were shattered. (Especially since quite a number of kids apply to Duke in my school. Not necessarily a lot percentage wise, but that year there was something like fifteen or twenty applicants).</p>
<p>My school also had a one in the denominator, though...</p>
<p>What does that mean? :/</p>
<p>It means I was the only one who applied, so we had a 0% percent rate because I got rejected.</p>
<p>at my school: 6 applied EA with all kinds of hooks, 6 rejected</p>
<p>That is the true definition of slaughtered. I was just trying to show how its easy to misrepresent a concept with a context-less percentage.</p>
<p>Whenever someone says slaughter I imagine an axe wielding man wearing a Jason mask.</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>I cannot begin to explain Stanford's decisions, but I can tell you about D2 who was accepted SCEA last year. Briefly she had: SAT 2280 (taken only once in Spring of junior year); top 5% rigorous college prep school, taking hardest classes (including AP Physics and AP Differential Equations); Senior Class President; and you can look up the rest in my older posts. </p>
<p>But I believe the significant factor here is that she transferred into this school as a junior. What is most informative as to her acceptance to both Stanford and Harvard was a note on each acceptance letter which said how impressed they were by the fact that she had acquired so many leadership positions in such a short (effectively one year) time period. </p>
<p>Also, her recommendations were outstanding- including comments like "in forty years of teaching I have rarely come across such a student...." and "exceptional in every way." Her essays also were amazing, and she wrote them herself.</p>
<p>Based on this, I can only conclude that recommendations play a tremendous part in these decisions. Oh, and I have noticed that many of her Stanford classmates, including her, are quite humble about their accomplishments.</p>
<p>For what its worth.</p>
<p>I read the first line of one of my teacher's recs, it said "Once in a lifetime does a teacher encounter a student the likes of" GimmeStanford. Almost shed a tear.</p>
<p>Apparently that is HUGE!!!</p>