<p>I did Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youths summer school thing wayyyy back in sixth grade, and my guidance counselor says that it won't help me in any way if i put it in for my Stanford EA because it was too long ago. Is this true? Do colleges overlook stuff if it was years ago? I thought it would be good way to express my interest in Stanford as my top choice.</p>
<p>As I see it, It really wont affect it at all. 6th grade is too damn long ago. Including it wouldn’t hurt you though. I actually suggest to include it…you never know with the Ivy League</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor is right.</p>
<p>Stanford cares about whether you have the mettle to succeed at Stanford, and, if you have, whether you stand out as somebody they’d rather have than the thousands of other applicants who have the mettle to succeed at Stanford. It’s your recent accomplishments that will tell them this.</p>
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Personally I kinda doubt the adcoms are going to think that as a 12-year-old you carefully evaluated all the options and programs available to gifted youth throughout California (and perhaps the nation) and then deliberately selected Stanford, thereby revealing your early and lasting preference for Stanford and helping make the case you should be admitted over other applicants. But I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Most of the highly selective schools, including S, don’t really care about students showing interest. They have many more extremely qualified applicants than they need to fill their fr class and they have very high yield rates.</p>
<p>Well, and a more relevant point may be that having Stanford as your choice doesn’t differentiate you from a big fraction of the Stanford applicant pool. I don’t think Stanford takes much note of applicants’ interest. I think they can safely assume most of their applicants are pretty darn interested.</p>
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<p>true, they don’t care, but might as well include it to show you’ve had academic pursuits before high school…? who knows, wouldn’t hurt either way unless your essay is about how poor you are and your financial struggles yet you attended a stanford summer program… you’d omit it then.</p>
<p>There’s no place on the CA to put activities from 6th grade, it would have to go in the Additional Information section. If they had won the National Spelling Bee, been on Jeopardy or something else out of the ordinary, it might well be warranted, but attending a Gifted Youth program (ie. a summer money maker for S), not really.</p>
<p>haha the perks of CC. all the dry sarcasm.
thanks everyone for replying</p>
<p>Stanford cares less than even other Ivies about demonstrated interest. It really won’t do anything either way, especially since it was so long ago.</p>