<p>Legacy maybe?</p>
<p>@ThousandMiles: It might have been a mistake, but it also showed a 900 when I changed the graphs to a 1600 scale, so the chances are unlikely.</p>
<p>@jdlace: I concur, I think it would have to be a lot of hooks all compiled into one amazing applicant that just happened to bomb the SAT.</p>
<p>@Rush 10 maybe someone entered it into Naviance as a joke? Or yea maybe it was a recruited person that took the ACT and got like a 25</p>
<p>I got an email a few weeks ago saying that Naviance automatically updated my SAT or something, but I manually entered them in the moment I got my score report. I suppose they could be screwing with us.</p>
<p>@Rush10 It’s not my problem as to why someone who recieved a 1400 was accepted to Stanford. But I would be wise not to judge the entire URM population off of a unique application, regardless of our school’s own experiences. It’s rather shortsighted.</p>
<p>Also I see you do not know if that individual was a URM. Once again, just proving that we are not admissions officers (who probably know what they are doing)</p>
<p>Parent of a Stanford recruited athlete here. Unless that 1400 student is an athletic clone of Andrew Luck (he wouldn’t be an academic clone since Luck was a valedictorian and very smart), my guess is it’s a data entry mistake. No one on my daughter’s team who opened up about their SAT scores had a number lower than the mid 1800’s, and most were a whole lot higher, eg. mid 2100’s and up. My daughter’s was 2300 (800 CR).</p>
<p>@thegfg do recruited athletes get accepted early action or are they part of regular descision?</p>
<p>Whoever he is, he is not one of us. If your score is way below the average, your chance of getting accepted is absolutely in danger.</p>
<p>@HelloRubato that statement just made me think of the Lion King II: Simba’s Pride…“he is not one of us” XD</p>
<p>I agree with TheGFG. My S knows a few recuited athletes on the campus and he is extremely impressed with them. Not only are athletes but Olympians too, who are training for the next Olympics and attending Stanford. Their SAT’s and ACT were excellent and they are extremely competitive in the classroom. As for the URM’s the samething goes. People tend to put both of these groups down and meantime you have to remember that in the long run they have to still survive in the Stanford classroom. Professors aren’t giving the athletes and urm’s a separate curve. So it would be ridiculous for Stanford to take a student with poor grades just to fill an athlete or urm spot. There’s too many well qualified students in these categories out there to settle for anything less. I think you have to give these athletes and urm’s credit. They work much harder than the regular student to get the grades they do.</p>
<p>I was just looking at the Stanford admissions data, and it seems very different from most other schools. For example, lower than average number of white students, and a very high number of kids from private schools. Fitting into both of these categories, would it make admissions easier or harder for me? Also, does being from a small state like CT help at all?</p>
<p>@Dungareedoll, that’s not really true. Stanford’s class of 2015, 10% had below a 25 ACT. Stanford’s class of 2014, 14% had below a 25 ACT. So, they certainly accept the low test score students.</p>
<p>Personally, I know a student, from my HS, who was accepted to Stanford with a 24 ACT, 3.1 UW GPA, and ZERO EC’s.</p>
<p>^ What hooks did he have?</p>
<p>He was African American, so he was a URM. He wasn’t poor, because his mom was a doctor and his father was a lawyer. Obliviously, was NOT first generation college student. And, no, he was not a recruited athlete. </p>
<p>So, yeah, he was just a URM.</p>
<p>** On a side note, this is my 700th post here!!!**</p>
<p>StanfordCS, where did you get those statistics? “10% had below a 25 ACT”</p>
<p>@StanfordCS that is definitely not true.
[Stanford</a> University: Common Data Set 2010-2011](<a href=“http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2010.html]Stanford”>http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2010.html)
It’s 1.12% are less than 24 for the composite.</p>
<p>Actually, if you go to Stanford’s website and click on Class Profile, you will see it. Also, it was posted on another thread on CC.</p>
<p>Actually, the Class Profile (at least the other one that I just found) says nothing about ACT:
[The</a> Undergraduate Program: Stanford University Facts](<a href=“http://facts.stanford.edu/undergraduate.html]The”>http://facts.stanford.edu/undergraduate.html)
And, the other link that does include ACT, contradicts your statement, both from the stanford website. Would you mind posting a link to back up your statement?</p>