Stanford student answering any and all questions

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CS requires ~100 credits related to the major. Linguistics only requires 50. A double major in CS and Linguistics is possible, but you wouldn’t have much room for electives, if you wanted to graduate in 4 years.</p>

<p>Whether it’s murder for your social life depends on the person. I found the CS classes I took to be some of the easiest classes of my college career, yet it has a reputation for being a challenging major. I ended up majoring in EE, with coterminal masters in EE and MS&E. I still had time for briefly being on the crew team and cycling club team (in different years), doing the pre-med track, working part-time jobs, occasional trips to SF, and even briefly starting a company that provided computer tech support to students.</p>

<p>It used to be “nine out of ten girls in California are beautiful, the tenth goes to Stanford” with most freshman dating Pali High girls</p>

<p>However most Stanford women did not have the time to do make-up, etc. when they did, they were some quite awesome ones!</p>

<p>^How long ago was this-- 50 years?-- back with the 500? I’ve never heard this phrase and I’ve never met a Stanford male who would have “dated” a Pali girl. Seriously.</p>

<p>Hi there! Thanks for taking time out to answer questions:)</p>

<p>Do you think it’s possible to double major in economics and psychology in Stanford? If it is, would the workload be overwhelming? Thanks! :)</p>

<p>Late 70s…</p>

<p>@ccuser95, would you chance me for stanford please?? I assume that I will be an american applicant as my citizenship is american but I am currently studying in India. But please correct me if I’m wrong. :-)</p>

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<p>100.9 gpa with 16 AP’s and 350 hours of community service. Senior class president, Squash captain. Am I going to get in HELP I’m losing my mind!!!</p>

<p>How is Stanford’s communication program? I want to be a sports broadcaster/journalist.</p>

<p>@sportsman: Communications is aight I think; a lot of athletes major in this.</p>

<p>@econ: Yes, both majors have relatively small unit reqs I believe.</p>

<p>I can’t really give an accurate “chance” for someone without the full application (essays, courseload, context).</p>

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<p>Unless you are a member of the admissions committee, you can’t give an accurate “chance” even with that information.</p>

<p>^^strongly concur!</p>

<p>Do you happen to know if there are any academic requirements beyond the general norm (don’t fail) to retain the 100% finaid you get?</p>

<p>@Buggie: Unless you’re on athletic scholarship, no.</p>

<p>@starmound</p>

<p>Nope. I got deferred, and have met lots of other people here who were deferred as well. Most likely, they are concerned about your senior year course/activities load and want to make sure you can handle it, so KEEP UP your grades. Stanford doesn’t defer if you don’t have a fighting chance. If you do exciting stuff, be sure to update them (email your adcom directly).</p>

<p>Take this time to really consider other options, but also try not to get jaded/want to ‘stick it to’ Stanford for this (even though that’s SO tempting, deferrals are SO frustrating). In the end, if you get in, this time to really evaluate what you want out of a college may lead you to even stronger convictions that Stanford is right for you. That’s what it did for me, anyway. Good luck and hang in there!</p>

<p>What kinds of extracurriculars did you (kind original poster) do in high school?</p>

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<p>Seriously??
They accept around 15% off the deferred list. That is a higher percentage than the RD pool and a higher percentage than the SCEA pool. It is up to you do decide if that means you are boned.</p>

<p>Do either of you guys have friends that are international relations majors. If so, what do they think about it?</p>

<p>@sweetcupcake: Ya; it seems to be a pretty popular major and well liked.</p>

<p>@hoping4stanford: Personal; PM for info.</p>

<p>@starmound: No, contacting adcom will not get you in trouble.</p>

<p>Two more questions:
Does Stanford look only at 10th-12th grade GPA? Do you know if they put more emphasis on weighted or weighted? Is it school-reported weighted or something like UCB does (only AP/IB classes, honors don’t count)?</p>

<p>Secondly, do you know of any perfect standardized test results at Stanford (ACT/SAT). How low were their HS GPA’s?</p>

<p>@Buggie111, Stanford looks to see if you are taking the most rigorous program available to you. If your school only offers 2 AP classes, then you better be taking them. If your class offers 30 AP classes and you only take 2 of them, they would see you aren’t taking the most rigorous path. If your school offers an IB diploma and you only take a handful of AP courses, you also wouldn’t be taking the most rigorous coursework. They understand that when looking for weighted classes.</p>

<p>Stanford looks at the overall picture. Many more people with perfect SATs get rejected than accepted. There is no formula. I would say perfect SATs with low grades would be a bad sign though, assuming the low grades weren’t just because of a difficult grading system or some other personal/health issue. It would potentially be a sign about lower motivation for the classwork.</p>

<p>Hope that helps. (I’m not a student, but an alum and I do interview candidates in my region)</p>