<p>How did people with high SAT scores, high GPA’s, and amazing extra curricular activities not get in and some people with bad SAT scores, bad GPA’s get in. I don’t get it/</p>
<p>college7782 How did you get in and not other people who had better stats than you did? What makes you special? I am confused I thought Stanford accepts the best of the best and people who will make a difference in the community. You’re not even a minority so this doesn’t make sense. Sorry about it but other people deserved it more than you did and people who came from nothing and worked their butts off to obtain high GPA’s and High SAT scores and amazing extra curricular activities.</p>
<p>That is how holistic admissions works. It’s also pretty bad manners to tell someone that other people deserved to get in more than someone else. Where is your common sense of courtesy? For better or for worse, SAT scores and GPA and even ECs are not the entire process.</p>
<p>To be fair that person’s list of ECs seems odd, so that person smells like a ■■■■■ to me. But if that person is for real, he probably isn’t still reading this website and is instead enjoying his time at Stanford.</p>
<p>huehuehue32 I think its bad manners to be nosy and why don’t you mind your own business. Other people who I saw had odd extra curricular activities with amazing grades and high test scores. And those people show character and overcoming adversity something that college7782 does not show so shut up. He might have gotten in but I know the people I was rooting for are going to be more successful and happier than college7782.</p>
<p>Are you a ■■■■■ tylersmith9325? How can you judge a person’s lifetime success and happiness based on one post on a collegeconfidential thread. By that same logic, the Stanford admissions committee accepts people, not statistics. Perhaps they saw something in one person that they didn’t in another, despite incredibly higher scores. If you can’t accept that then good luck getting in to begin with.</p>
<p>Knock it off with the elitist negativity.</p>
I got question to those who moved from “deferred” to “accepted”. What did you do to cross the border onto the “accepted” pile? Were there major changes that you wrote about after deferred and that made an impact or maybe Stanford were waiting to see Senior grade posted? Any advice is highly appreciated!
@dennisy You might try to post a new thread. These people are recent college grads now and likely rarely, if ever, visit this site.
Please don’t post to old threads.