<p>I dont get this, I was deferred from Stanford but look at these stats for my school: </p>
<p>Yale: 7/9 Accepted
Columbia: 4/4 Accepted
UPenn: 3/5 Accepted
Cornell: 3/6 Accepted
MIT: 1/1 Accepted
Duke: 2/2 Accepted
Stanford: 0/1 Deferred = me</p>
<p>There is still hope (provided a lot of my friends don't apply)!</p>
<p>Dam 7 students from your school got into Yale.. that is impressive. Only 1 got in at my school</p>
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[ *] State or Country: Taiwan
[ *] School Type: Large public-private
[ *] Ethnicity: Egyptian
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<p>This part makes me laugh...</p>
<p>*Decision: Accepted *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2320 -- 800 Math, 760 Reading, 760 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: Scores 800 Math II
[<em>] GPA: 4.0/4.0 unweighted, 4.3/4.3 weighted
[</em>] Rank: 1/300ish
[<em>] Other stats: 5 AP Calc BC soph year, 5 AP Bio
[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: solid
[<em>] Teacher Recs: "once in a lifetime student/athlete"-ish
[</em>] Counselor Rec: ditto
[<em>] Hook (if any): Normal kid who happens to be a math prodigy living the life of a jock.
[/ul]
Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Colorado
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[li] Gender: guy[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors:
[ul]
[<em>] Varsity football quarterback (all-league junior year)
[</em>] Varsity basketball
[<em>] Varsity track
[</em>] Finished school district math curriculum soph year (2 years @ local college)
[<em>] Ran a math tutoring clinic for ~15 of my teammates.
[</em>] National Honor Society president
[/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments: cool</p>
<p>hahahahaha
"Normal kid who happens to be a math prodigy living the life of a jock."
you so modest!
<3</p>
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Normal kid who happens to be a math prodigy living the life of a jock.
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<p>Define prodigy....because if you are not an IMO Medalist or at the center of some big research, you definitely are not a prodigy...</p>
<p>sheesh, cool out. i was just trying to convey the angle i took in the app. cut me some slack, and have a bit of a sense of humor.</p>
<p>i think a lot of people here are wound up so tightly that they're missing the fact that it's not about building the best resume in the world. it's about being a genuine, interesting person. if you're amassing these amazing resumes primarily for the sake of getting into college, you're setting yourself up for disappointment -- it inevitably will show through on the application.</p>
<p>for me, the application process was almost an afterthought. i never did any community service, i didn't take any SAT prep class, i only took the tests once, and i really just put my energy into the sports that i enjoy, the friends i care about, and the ideas that i find interesting. the only "fake" activity i did (NHS president) was because a teacher i really like asked me to.</p>
<p>so yes, i'm arrogant. yes, you're probably smarter than me.<br>
but i love the life i've been leading, and i'd still love it even if i were going to colorado state.</p>
<p>ProjectStanford: Yale loves kids from your school.</p>
<p>This really is insane. Yale seems to be a little more predictable in their admissions, even if their acceptances rates are nearly equal.</p>
<p>After skimming through this thread I have decided this:</p>
<p>If you have gotten in, you're amazing at life. It's as simple as that.</p>
<p>tralfamadore i've got you beat, i took BC freshman year</p>
<p>lol, tralfamadore, I would not consider Calc BC in sophomore year as a sign of being a math prodigy. </p>
<p>I took BC in my sophomore year too, and I am definitely not a math genius. In fact I think my greatest academic strength is writing, which is why I decided not to take Calc 3, DFQ and Linear Algebra during my Junior year, although I easily could have. BC Calculus is pretty juvenile math, imho.</p>
<p>There are so many bright, qualified students that are being rejected....but it is happening in all of the most selective schools. This is absolutely brutal. We are what is being called the "echo effect of the baby boomers."</p>
<p>What Stanford looks for obviously goes well beyond SAT's. First off, 52% will be students of color. 26% will be URM's, African American, Latino, Native American and Native Hawaiian.
Add another 10% for international students. We can see the pie is getting sliced pretty thin by now. One thing a lot of applicants overlook is the tagged athletes. Stanford has 35 athletic teams. They have won the Director's Cup something like 10 of the last 15-years. (This award goes to the NCAA school that wins more titles in all sports than any other school.) Legacies aren't as large of an item as with the Ivy League schools. </p>
<p>One of the problems is viewing the 25% to 75% admittance SAT scores at a school like Stanford, and thinking we are looking good with our scores. Unless you are very athletic or an URM, these figures mean nothing. It would be pretty tough for the an Asian or Caucasian who is NOT an accomplished athlete to get accepted with SAT's in this range, as has been shown by these posts. </p>
<p>Obviously Stanford has a racial breakdown in mind when they admit or reject. It is not based strictly on merit. They do not want to have anything close to the racial breakdown of University of California flagship schools like UCLA or Berkeley, where the the matriculation is supposed to be tied primarily to meritocracy. They would like the student population to be somewhat closer to the racial breakdown of the country's population, which is understandable. </p>
<p>On the east coast, with the Ivy League admittance very similar, there is a tremendous spillover effect that is making it just as hard to get into the "little Ivies" like Williams, Amherst, Duke, Georgetown, Middlebury, etc. Last year there were so many that not only did not get into the Ivies, they also were rejected by these "alternative" schools. </p>
<p>I visited a number of schools over the last year...Stanford on the west coast, Duke and Harvard on the east coast, Wash U. in the midwest seem to be not only compelling academically, but for the quality of life. Stanford and Harvard are so over-the-top difficult to get into that it's almost humorous. Again, it's brutal. </p>
<p>I'm sitting here with a 2180 SAT, which is about 97 percentile for the combined, and worried about getting accepted to ANY of the schools I applied to. No wonder everyone is applying to 8 or more schools. </p>
<p>Two groups I do feel sorry for are the economically disadvantaged students. I believe they should get some help from affirmative action. I also see the bind the over achieving Asian students are in. There seem to be so many of them with great scores that are being turned away in large numbers. </p>
<p>Find a great school that is a good fit, hammer good grades, and then nail the most selective grad/law/medical school.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone. (Have your younger siblings take cross country or some other sport.)</p>
<p>College</a> Search - Stanford University - THE FARM - At a Glance </p>
<p>(Scroll down on the page for ethnicity figures from the most recently reported group of first-year students.)</p>
<p>I understand that some people are having a hard time accepting that they've been deferred/rejected because this is something all of us have always dreamed of or worked towards. But I have to say that it's pretty insulting reading these comments of how Stanford just accepted URMs and that their acceptances are "random." </p>
<p>At first, when i got accepted, I didn't think i deserved it. Why? Because there are so many amazing people across the country who have done more than I have. Then when I came here to look at who my classmates might be, these posts made me feel like i really didn't deserve it. </p>
<p>It's hard to be happy when so many of you are giving crap to people you don't even know.</p>
<p>Basically this thread is full of acceptees whose egos aren't willing to admit that they were accepted over stronger applicants, and bitter deferees and rejectees who think the only reason they got rejected is because they were white/asian.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Lots of you need to calm down</p>
<p>I'm white and I got in, my stats are better than almost every deferree and rejectee, and while I don't know what other peoples recs and essays are like, I know how mine are... how can you say I'm not one of the strongest applicants? I think I deserved to get in. And Stanford doesn't accept weaker applicants over stronger ones. Being a URM makes you a stronger applicant, as does being a legacy or athlete or prodigy. The only time a weaker applicant is taken over a stronger applicant is when the stronger one fails to convey everything they need to... and whose fault is that?</p>
<p>GimmeStanford,</p>
<p>Well said. Amen. Haha ...</p>
<p>All I can say is, I feel bad for those who had Stanford set in their mind ever since...</p>
<p>GimmeStanford, your stats are NOT stronger than many of the Deferees and Rejectees. You may have been a one of the stronger applicants, but you were NOT stronger than many of them.</p>
<p>Ego much?</p>