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Old 12-16-2004, 08:14 PM   #16
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Dang if it weren't for that 780 in Chem, Gutrade would have gotten perfect scores on EVERYTHING. He would have been the quintessential perfect applicant, with perfect GPAs, perfect scores, perfect life......

Apply to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton regular decision. You'll certainly get in. I'm sorry you can't come here, but sometimes life is unfair.

I had no idea Stanford was THAT hard to get in.
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Old 12-16-2004, 08:33 PM   #17
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the college admission process is a crapshoot. seriously. there is no rhyme or reason to their selection sometimes; it's like a lottery. so don't feel bad at all; it's not your fault!!! i can't say "for sure" that you will be accepted at berkeley, but you have one heck of a good chance. people would kill for your stats! good luck!!!!
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Old 12-16-2004, 09:12 PM   #18
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If a person like Gutrade didn't get into Berkeley, he'd make the 10 o' clock news!
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Old 12-16-2004, 09:13 PM   #19
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I think that Stanford rejected you because they knew you were bound for something greater. Good luck!
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Old 12-16-2004, 09:50 PM   #20
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Gutrade: I just got rejected from Stanford as well. I attended their summer college so I thought that gave me a bit of an edge, and my scores aren't bad - nothing compared to your's however. My ECs are good, still, not as good as yours. You are amazing-- have you been to the stanford message board? The deferred/rejected thread has a lot of people who have stats really similar to yours. Stanford is way too capricious. No one really knows what they are looking for. You should definitely go IVY!
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Old 12-17-2004, 10:29 PM   #21
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Gutrade, I hope you've calmed down somewhat now?
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Old 12-18-2004, 04:23 AM   #22
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If a person like Gutrade didn't get into Berkeley, he'd make the 10 o' clock news!
Blah blah. Stop drooling all over yourself. You're making the girls run away.

Anyways, Berkeley rejected over 600 applicants with a 1550+ SAT score last year.
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Old 12-18-2004, 11:14 AM   #23
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Gutrade, try for UNC special program or somthing.

Just fyi



This is from Daily Bruins

At private universitites across the country, grade inflation is rampant. Average GPAs at private schools like Stanford range from 3.5 to 3.6 while at public institutions, such as Berkeley, UCLA, UNC , The Average range from 3.0 to 3.2. UCLA needs to bring back class rankings to preserve the value of hard -earned grades. Class rankings would demonstrate that a 3.0 at UCLA , where the average GPA is from 3.1 to 3.2 is much more respectable thatn a 3.0 at Stanford, where the average GPA was recently brought down from 3.6 to 3.45. While grade inflation is a national phenomenon , former Harvard dean Henry Rosovsky and University of Pennsylvania lecturer Mattthew Hartley say it is "especially noticeable in the outragehously expensive IVY League. Harvard professor, Harvey Mansfield, has two-grade policy. Professor Mansfield hands out a merit-based grade which is shown only to the students and an inflated grade which gets recorded on transcripts.


Having a high GPA at a state school is a bigger accomplishment than having a high GPA at a private school says Vidya Prabhakaran, Former president of Yale College Council
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Old 05-19-2005, 08:01 PM   #24
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Gutrade??????????
What on earth happened to all your anger for Stanford? I didn't even recognize you...
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