Transfer Chances Stanford / Need to form essay reading group

Transfer Students
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<p>I've finalized my resume for Stanford, and have already committed it. Yes, for those who've missed school for a period of time, you are allowed to upload a resume along with your statement of why you missed and what made you return to school.</p>

<p>GPA 3.97 / 140 Quarter Units
SAT M590, V650, W600
Honors student, no particular awards</p>

<p>Graduating Foothill, Spring 2006
• Computer Science, AS
• Computer Software Development, AS
• Psychology, AA
• Sociology, AA
• Social Science, AA</p>

<p>Educational Experience
• Volunteer health/science teacher in the Stanford HELP program for 6th grade students at Selby Lane Elementary.
• Mentor for NASA’s Foundation for College Education, teaching high-school students experimental psychology and web design.</p>

<p>Psychology Experience
• Assisted in the design, analysis and administration of NASA Human-Factors Flight Deck Group’s eye-tracker experiments.
• Emotional coder at Stanford Medical Center’s Coding Lab, recording emotional data of metastatic breast cancer patients in supportive-expressive groups.
• Developed BoxedThoughts (<a href="http://www.boxedthoughts.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.boxedthoughts.com&lt;/a&gt;) to monitor raw human thought at moments in time; has been featured on G4TV and Yahoo! Best of Web.</p>

<p>Technical Experience
• Programmed OekakiPoteto, an open-source social network board for artists. Has a following of over 50,000 amateur artists, who share and connect with their art.
• Programmed NASA Human-Factor’s content and asset management systems.
• Developed improved tools for processing Stanford Medical Center’s Coding Lab’s raw emotional data.
• Programmed an e-commerce subscription system for Entetel Corporation’s TV data delivery services.
• Founded AL Radio, an online radio station for amateur DJs to practice and develop DJ skills. Currently has over 15 DJs in training.
• Programmed NetCableTV’s customer support system.
• Developed an online reservation system for the Pacifica Beach Resort, allowing for real-time reservations and credit card transactions.
• Created Montessori School of Linda Mar’s student record-keeping system.</p>

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<p>I've begun work on my essays, and have two of my essays approved by my honors counselor thus far. However, she notes that one of them has flow issues, and I'd love people who can tear my essays apart and identify any issues. I prefer communication via AOL IM or MSN, and will gladly read another person's essay if I have the time.</p>

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<p>what the F? FIVE AA's? ARE YOU KIDDING? how is that even POSSIBLE</p>

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<p>what an utter waste of time. I bet in the time it took you to finish all those AA's I could have earned my Master's.</p>

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<p>Isn't AA is just the general education? </p>

<p>I don't see how it is considered a major; We only take upper division courses in the 3rd and 4th years for most majors if i'm not mistaken and that is how we get degree with a major.</p>

<p>But anyways, the poster is asking for opinions about his/her chance so let's stay on the topic...</p>

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<p>It actually only took me two years to get all of those. It's possible if you keep close watch on the requirements and do a full load each quarter (including Summer).</p>

<p>AA/AS degrees are two year degrees, which is equivilent to a minor, if I'm not mistaken. For one degree, it's around 90 units, with around 40-55 units depending on the "major", so it's half GE and half core/electives per major. Also, some of the classes will overlap other degrees, where you can use them twice.</p>

<p>For example, I can use Elementary Stats to count as my electives for Sociology and Psychology.</p>

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<p>okay. i have just lost my mind. you did 140 units in two years, and now you're transferring with five degrees, and an assload of ec's. with calc up to 1d. i bow to you. if you dont get into stanford, im not even applying.</p>

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<p>^^ amen to that.</p>

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<p>Some of my friends who are in engineering have 100-130 semester units but get out with NO AA or AS degree or whatsover... what is that 140 units? semester or quarter? 140 is not that many...
I don't think minor is AA or AS.</p>

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<p>If you read the original post, it's quarter units. Many who enter college just go straight for the BA/BS and skip the AA/AS altogether. However, the community college I am at only offers AA/AS (and technically some BS).</p>

<p>A minor is actually less than a 2 year degree. For example, at San Jose State University, a math or psychology minor is 18 semester units (Pretty much 27 quarter units). </p>

<p>I think this is going way off-topic, but I'll be glad to answer any types of questions you may have.</p>

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<p>If it is 140 quarter units; ahhhahah it is just a little over what most engineering students have to finish before they go to upper division courses... I don't really see why you have to get so many AA degrees there for... what is the point in there? Plus, is it really true?</p>

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<p>"A minor is actually less than a 2 year degree. For example, at San Jose State University, a math or psychology minor is 18 semester units (Pretty much 27 quarter units). " </p>

<p>You sure? Then i bet I have both math and psychology minors already... :D</p>

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<p>My only evidence is based off of just searching for minor requirements from San Jose State (since that's my backup school) and just asking friends who might not be informed enough to be authorities.</p>

<p>It's not really important at this moment whether an associates degree is equivilent, lesser, or better than a minor, but having the AA/AS is for me as a transfer as Stanford prefers you've already graduated or will graduate with at least a two-year degree for transfers.</p>

<p>You could be correct that minor > AA/AS, and you might have enough units for a minor. Check with the department you wish to minor in. Sometimes you get "freebies". For example, at SJSU, if you're in Computer Engineering, if you take 1-2 more math classes, you get a math minor.</p>

<p>I have so many AA/AS because I really love to learn. For example, I had to take honors sociology as apart of my honors requirement, and just that class alone was so enjoyable, I wanted to study more sociology. Oh, and the social science was a freebie; if you take like 4 courses in science, psychology, and some other stuff, you get it.</p>

<p>How I did all of this was just go through the degrees I'm interested in, and see how much I can overlap classes and just do the core/electives. For example, CS and "computer software development" is very similiar (except that CSD doesn't require calculus), and psychology and sociology shares <em>some</em> classes. Also, the psych/sociology classes were also applicable towards my GE.</p>

<p>I wish I could contribute more to this forum, but my knowldege is primarily on Stanford and what they might be looking for.</p>

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<p>I see... I see...
Anyways, let's refer to your chances since that is your primary concern of your first post:
You have very good chances (3.97 is super duper competitive plus impressive extra activities) but one thing you might worry is your SAT if you want to transfer to Standord; you should retake and improve your score to the 700ish in all three subjects. </p>

<p>You definitely are shoe-in at your back up school (San Jose State).</p>

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<p>yes. you really need to improve your sat scores, because they seem to be the only thing lacking (no offense, but compared to your current academic performance, they are terribly lacking). it would be a shame to mar what would otherwise be sterling application with those sat scores. however, if you're a sophomore transfering as a junior, then they won't so significant... but still, try to improve them. otherwise, an adcom could easilly attribute your performance to the lack of rigor of your school, rather than your innate intelligence.</p>

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<p>im sorry darkstar but i would definitely disagree. with the amount of units that he's consistently taking each quarter along with the parallel demand required of each high-level class (and if you check the website, they are really high level classes) i dont think they would necessarily count that against him. the adcom at stanford has a great deal of familiarity with his school, they send the most transfers to stanford each year from a CC. however, i will go ahead and agree on the point that taking SAT's again may boost chances, but then again, since the application date is in march, i really think that this is a minor detail when in light of the rest of his application.</p>

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<p>It's too late to take any more SATs. My final score is an improvement of 240 over 3 different re-takes. The Foothill honors counselor says that my GPA will compensate for my low SATs. Stanford will not accept any SATs that are past the March 15 date.</p>

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<p>Foothill? I am sory to burst anyone's bubble but I don't think that anyone from Foothill has been accepted to Stanford recently.</p>

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<p>Are you implying that he has little chance then?</p>

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<p>who am i to judge...
but i was not impressed with the 140 units 5 AAs and all that.
if you take real classes that are deep and demanding - the only way to really develope yourself academically - i believe you wouldn't be able to do more than 70. the sat's aren't really important in other schools but i thinnk that stanford takes them seriously and at least half of the scores on SAT and SAT IIs should be 700+</p>

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<p>Wrong. Gillian Gentry was from Foothill and became apart of Stanford in 2005.</p>

<p>Source:
<a href="http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2005/marapr/features/transfers.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2005/marapr/features/transfers.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Foothill has one of the most transfers to Stanford, with 36 transfers as of 2005. And, this is counting honors students only.</p>

<p>Source:
<a href="http://www.foothill.fhda.edu/hon/index.html#honcour%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.foothill.fhda.edu/hon/index.html#honcour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>