<p>I read online that Stanford tends to look especially favorably regarding entrepreneurship in applicants. Is this true or false?</p>
<p>Irregardless, are there some schools that tend to favor certain qualities in applicants?</p>
<p>i heard about this one too… mostly because of the influence from silicon valley. i think it is somewhat true; they tend to prefer mavericks, but it doesn’t make sense to reject an applicant who is very talented in another area.</p>
<p>Great question, and I’d love to hear from from some Stanford students. I went to a presentation recently where the adcom was pushing this idea with no cites at all. I’m glad they are at least talking the talk, I’d like to know if it’s just talk.</p>
<p>They look favorably on initiative and success of any kind. You don’t have to make money to impress them.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight. Slightly off topic for the forum but still pertaining to the thread: are there any qualities that Harvard and Yale place emphasis on? I haven’t heard anything about those yet.</p>
<p>A lot of students here (stanford) seem to have that entrepeneurial spirit. Mainly CS people. At least from my observations. It gets kinda annoying.</p>
<p>I can tell you that Stanford does emphasize “overcoming obstacles.” It is 17% low-income and 24% first generation. That’s HUGE, especially for an elite school. It’s also big on racial diversity (let’s not even go there on this thread, please) and has high percentages of African American, American Indian, and Hispanic students. If you go through the RD or SCEA decisions threads from last year, you’ll notice a disproportionate number of CC students who were first gen/low-income/URM who got in.</p>
<p>@applicannot there’s no point in even trying to start a conversation about who got into stanford early, especially when only drawing from the CC community.</p>
<p>Er… right. But I thought my percentages expanded beyond the CC community, and I wasn’t just talking about early action. So basically you missed the whole point.</p>
<p>Hmm, an interesting read. Thanks for the insight. Any others willing to share?</p>
<p>@BrookeWaggoner - I’m sure Stanford looks upon student entrepreneurs favorably. But seriously, lose the “irregardless”. It’s making me laugh out loud. [Irregardless</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless]Irregardless”>Irregardless - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>My daughter is a junior and when she applied had a very small online business, I know it was brought to her attention that this was noteworthy to the admissions people…in addition to her stellar academic and community service record. I think that as someone noted, possibly because of the close proximity to Silicone valley and being a part of the “tech hub”, this quality is especially well received, but then again I can’t think of a school out there that wouldn’t be impressed with a young adult who has that entrepreneurial sprit…afterall it typcially points to the drive that a person has, which no doubt will aid them in their college years.</p>