I convinced my parents (and myself) to take the SAT one last time in November, but I’m assuming that’s too late for Early Action applications. My best score (was all in one sitting) was a 1950 and my CR+M was 1300+. I am planning to apply Restrictive Early Action to Stanford with hopes that I will at least get deferred to regular decision, but is it worth it? I am hoping that if I take the SAT in November I can update them with a better score before the regular decision process. But if my expectation (or hope really) is to get deferred, is it really worth trying early? With the risk that I will just get rejected? I know colleges don’t look at only test scores. I have a 4.0+ GPA. I am top 10% in my class. I attend a regional Governor’s School and all my STEM classes are based on George Mason University’s curriculum. I have some great recommendations from some former and current college professors, as well as a notable research professor who used to be a top guy at the NIH. I have some worthy ECs. So I am really throwing everything I have at the admissions officers, will I still get flat out rejected? Will applying early action first hold any weight if I’m deferred to the regular decision pool?
While not an auto reject a 1950 SAT will make acceptance at Stanford extremely unlikely, most likely rejection during the EA round. This assumes that you are not a recruited athlete.
With 42,000 applications last year, Stanford strongly prefers to review a file only once, so they try to make final decisions as much as possible whenever an applicant is reviewed. Last year they admitted 10.2% of REA applicants and rejected 80%, with only about 10% being deferred. Right now the OP’s chances are minimal in the REA round, and applying RD may make more sense.
Nobody here can say. But your SAT score will hurt.
yeah 10% seems right,
I have very similar stats as you do, except for the STEM aspect.
Regular decision is less likely but doing REA is dangerous because you can’t do EA to anyone other schools, just RD.
Im doing RD to stanford because of that fact.
Will do. Thanks guys.
They usually defer to see how you compete against other similar situated candidates, if, they have a question as to your application. I’m assuming, you’re from Northern Virginia, and that area is stacked with highly qualified candidates…thus, you’re not likely to get deferred.