<p>I actually find it quite nice of Shaw to have said this to everyone. I think society has become so focused on rankings and prestige, and forgotten that undergrad won’t make your future that much different than if you went to a top 30 school instead of top 5.</p>
<p>n1 fortify, although stanford is quite the URM whore and arbitrary with decisions</p>
<p>To be honest</p>
<p>Even though it is just “one line at the bottom of a resume,”
that one line is important!!!
if it doesn’t read Stanford University,
something is wrong!!!
that “much longer journey” is totally screwed up and imperfect!!</p>
<p>(being a freak here</p>
<p>but those who obsess with Stanford know what Im saying right?</p>
<p>^^^ well he’s right you know. If you really think your life will be ruined by not attending a certain college maybe you don’t have enough faith in your own abilities to be successful and happy, and just because you go to a too school doesn’t mean your automatically going to get jobs and oppritunites over others. All this forum was saying is that if you get rejected next week have faith that your life is meant to flourish elsewhere :)</p>
<p>Nicely said, starshortie37!</p>
<p>I’ve re-read this about 3-4 times…AHHH!</p>
<p>Thought this might need a bump right about now</p>
<p>Actually a link to this article was put in rejection emails. I didn’t read it, though, because I know it almost by-heart :D.</p>
<p>Yeah - as if UC Berkley is a bad fallback! In fact, UC Berkley is ranked higher than Stanford when it comes to evaluating undergraduate programs on the world stage.</p>
<p>lol. Yeah. <em>sigh</em> the rejection email. They all sound the same, try to be nice and comforting… but it still stings. Just a little.</p>
<p>i thought the message came off a little pretentious…like just tell me i got rejected, dont patronize me by giving me a nice little life lesson that i should take away from it. its just a bit annoying…</p>
<p>either way, its a great school!</p>
<p>This is truly a remarkable message =] Bump.</p>
<p>Why would anyone find solace in this article?</p>
<p>^ Ask the people who DID find solace in the article. Too bad you didn’t, others did.</p>
<p>Terrible article with nice swipes at other great schools, like Berkeley. Why not cite those on campus who got rejected by Stanford undergrad but went to say Princeton or MIT instead?</p>
<p>Lame. The fact, too, is that Stanford overwhelmingly favors its own graduates in its professional school (business, law, med) admissions - why do that if it “doesn’t matter” that much where one goes to college?</p>
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<p>What makes you think so? Genuinely curious.</p>
<p>Yes, that is simply not true. It is actually very difficult to get into some of Stanford’s grad schools if you’re a stanford grad. Take for example the SBS, they want diversity, not just their own students they’ve already had.</p>
<p>Take a look at Stanford representation in their own schools.</p>
<p>Anyone with a pulse can get an MS through the Coterminal program as well.</p>
<p>We’re not talking about coterms, we’re talking about their grad schools, the school of medicine, business, law and education. You don’t co-term in those.</p>
<p>So, funny story, i got rejected from Stanford and they attached this letter to the rejection letter. Oddly enough, my intellectual vitality essay stressed that i considered myself a bass player in the band that is my high school because my view of intellectual vitality was much different than others’. Basically my essay was about my love for music and how i feel my participation in band has affected me. The fact that this rejection letter specifically states that in order to create perfect harmony in the Stanford class some bass players need to be rejected, i kind of laughed at how direct my rejection was… O well, that’s my life lol. I just hope they didn’t think i stole their whole metaphor idea…
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