<p>With the SCEA decisions for the QB applicants arriving any day now, I think it is appropriate to create a decisions thread. Do post your decision here.</p>
<p>As for me, I am just a <em>normal</em> SCEA applicant (by normal I mean non-QB)</p>
<p>Cheers! and Good Luck!</p>
<p>You might also want to join the Stanford SCEA fb group::</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: QuestBridge applicant
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 2250 (720M, 750CR, 780W)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 670 Lit, 700 Math 2, 730 US History
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.84 UW, school does not weight
[<em>] Rank: school does not rank
[</em>] ACT: 31, didn’t send
[<em>] APs (including this year’s): Euro 4, Environmental Science 4, Lit 5, US History 5, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Biology, World History + 10 honors courses
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Last five APs above + Creative Writing and Contemporary World Issues
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: most likely 0
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): QuestBridge Finalist and MATCH, National Achievement, etc.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Community Association Junior President, 10 hours/week (11 and 12) + Community Association Youth Member 5 hours/week (9 and 10), Student Government member and Class Government presidents for 9 and 10
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 25 hours/week cashier
[<em>] Essays: Biographical essay was moving about YES WE CAN, others weren’t the best, Stanford essays were pretty good if I say so myself but who really knows
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I go to an online high school - possibly impersonal.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably pretty good, he doesn’t really know me.
[</em>] Interview: I didn’t have one.
[li] Hook: African American, low-income/single parent, first generation, QB finalist</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Maryland
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School: online high school, not bad but not great
[<em>] Ethnicity: African American (biracial)
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Income Bracket: $23,000 / 5 people
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I already answered this.
[<em>] Strengths: Biographical essay, hooks and tips, ECs, course load
[</em>] Weaknesses: subject test scores, recommendations
[li] Why you think you were accepted: It must have been my essays. QB finalists are already screened for eligibility.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I’m still in shock. I’m still waiting for all my friends and family to get home from after school activities, and I’ve only gotten the call, not the email. It just doesn’t seem possible.</p>
<p>Well, there was only one other student I know of from Yale and he was on Facebook, not CC. There’s no point in creating a whole thread with one post in it. One QB student isn’t going to ruin a whole SCEA thread.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used? Yes
[</em>] SAT I (by section) 760 CR/710M/670W 12 essay: 2140/2400
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II/ 790 US History/ 740 Biology M
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.85 UW / 4.23 W
[<em>] Rank: 20/100
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] APs (including this year’s): European History (3), Statistics (4), AP Calculus BC (5), AP Chemistry (5), AP US History (5), AP Eng Lang (5), AP Art History (4), AP Biology (5)
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 7 others
[li] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Engineering Inspiration, Principal Honor Roll, [/li]Middleburry Chinese Languange Immersion, Johns Hopkins Summer CTY and plenty of others…</p>
<p>[li]Self study Multivariable calculus, DiffEQ, Lin. Algebra</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Robotics Club, Interact Club, Tutoring, Child care for my younger brother
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:Intern at AMGEN drug lab, Intern at UCSD cancer research lab
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Essay on how I almost died at 6 years old. I participated in crime with my mother and abusive father. Goes on to tell how I gouged my father’s eyes and came under the legal guardianship of my 88 year old great-grandmother.
Another essay on my interest in astronautical engineering and medicine.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Absolutely stunning recommendation
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Absolutely stunning
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): No interview
[li] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Family of 4 making less than $20,000. Live with great-grandparents. Dangerous life as a child etc. First generation student (family members never graduated from high school).</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:California
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Charter
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: <$20,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):First generation
[<em>] Strengths: Good in all fields of academics
[</em>] Weaknesses: No weaknesses
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I attribute my acceptance to my essays. They were stellar. I’m really glad Stanford doesn’t only look for the obsessed academics who have nothing to talk about other than their perfect gpa and sat :)[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>PM me about it if you’re curious. Guys, NJDS was right, we should really keep this thread clear of discussion to keep it clean for SCEA decisions in two weeks.</p>
<p>NOTE TO THE MODERATORS:
Can you clean this thread up? I don’t know if you can move just some posts to another thread, but if you can, you can move the discussion posts to Stanford 2014 SCEAers.</p>
<p>SCEA decisions will go in another thread. This is only for QB decisions.</p>
<p>ATTN MODERATOR::
I have lost the power to edit the name of this thread. It would really be helpful if it could be named to “The Official Stanford SCEA Decisions 2014 [Only QuestBridge applicants]”</p>
<p>I know, but I’m saying that’s stupid. There are only two QB applicants. Are you really going to shunt us to another thread all together because TWO of us got our decisions TWO weeks early? It’s not like there are a dozen of us. And honestly, our acceptance rate is considerably lower than yours for early action, so it’s not like we’re not as qualified as you.</p>
Like someone said, you’d make a great addition to the Stanford community.</p>