<p>SAT 2240, GPA 4.0:</p>
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<p>Well…if I were on the admissions committee, I’d accept her, too. 
Brava for her! Nice to hear “good news” stories. </p>
<p>nice story…but someone didnt do their homework…</p>
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<p>uh no…she got a full need award.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids - the confusion about this is one of my pet peeves. </p>
<p>It is possible that she got an outside scholarship to cover what Stanford need-based aid does not cover (minimum net price at Stanford is a $5,000 student (work earnings) contribution, based on its net price calculator).</p>
<p>Or she could have a Jack Cooke Kent scholarship or something like that (not affiliated with the university).</p>
<p>^^ Highly doubtful. </p>
<p>This is a believable as Jennifer Gates attending Stanford on a full academic scholarship. </p>
<p>The type of financial support for low income students provide last dollars and wrap available federal and private aid offered by the school. The JkC covers less than half of Stanford costs. </p>
<p>There is a 99 percent chance that the entire award comes from grants from the government and Stanford scholarships, with possible scholarship to cover the student contributions. </p>
<p>What we have here is the typical shoddy lemming journalists who repeat stories they do not understand very well. It is deliberately misleading. They either take the words from people who seek the limelight at face value or simply misrepresent the facts. This has been all over the news, despite being hardly unique in Texas for very competitive Hispanic students. Several students from my high school did the exact same thing this year. College match programs are contributing to the non-rejections. </p>
<p>xiggi, it was nice to read this story about a Katy student from (Cypress Springs or Cypress Lakes) getting accepted to these universities. </p>
<p>Under the current system, Katy students like her would be sent to an alternative school for academically weak students if they tried to transfer to one of the posh suburban high schools in Katy (Cinco, Taylor or SL) after attending middle school in one of these poor ethnic Katy neighborhoods. </p>
<p>I believe she was one of two NMSFs from her school. CY Springs had its first NMSF in 7 years this year! </p>
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<p>Whenever I read these stories, one half of me is laying heaps of praises upon the person, and the other half of me is saying “Cut the crap, he/she and I still have 60-70 years ahead of us and I can achieve a lot more than this him/her in that time span”. I’ve learned to always listen to the latter half. Not that it’s not an achievement to get into Stanford or the like, but my life runs independently of other people’s achievements.</p>
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<p>I do not disagree but the stories that surface in the news would serve a higher purpose if they were truer to the reality and not be misleading. There is no blame going to the remarkable kid who will emerge from a school that is more known for hundred of kids getting into a gun battle in a close bayou. That should be the story, as well as schools such as Stanford reaching out in obscure places. </p>
<p>The moron from the ABC station HAD to put the accent on the FULL when talking about the scholarship. A lot more could be gained from describing the possibilities to such students offered by the Gates millennium or Questbridge programs. Was the girl part of such program? </p>
<p>My “beef” is with the sensationalist reporters who cannot help themselves relying on the romantic part of the story, and by doing so doing little to help others understand how the system really work. All of us are better served by the truth. </p>
<p>I saw she wanted to do BME. If that was the case I don’t get why she didn’t pick duke seeing as its BME is ranked as the second best in the country.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I don’t know xiggi. My son graduated from a Cy Springs feeder school and transferred to one of those posh schools. So, he wasn’t there at Cy Fair to use these facilities. </p>
<p>I just know what Katy ISD did to my son, who graduated a NMSF and National AP Scholar. However at the time he transferred to Katy ISD after middle school, he was told to attend their alternative school (Martha Raines) & given a penalty GPA for taking regular high school courses in middle school. </p>
<p>As you know Cy Fair doesn’t offer honor level high school courses in middle school and doesn’t include the grades on their high school transcript. However, Katy ISD does and exploits this policy difference to funnel ALL Katy’s cy fair kids to the alternative school by crushing their GPA and suggesting they aren’t ready for regular high schools. It is insanity, but its been going on forever</p>
<p>So, is it possible that top universities have gotten wind of this practice and started offering more admissions to students from this population? I know that the year my son graduated, 4 graduates from our posh school went to Stanford and several were accepted to other top schools. However, the next year none were accepted to Harvard or Stanford. I don’t know if there is a trend here or if it is just a coincidence? </p>
<p>I hoped she chose Stanford over Duke because it was the best matched for her. Those rankings mean very little when the programs are accredited and are at medium to highly competitive universities.</p>
<p>Stanford is number 2 in engineering and number 6 in BME. The BME program is attached to number 2 medical school in the country at Stanford.</p>
<p>However, many who go to Stanford will find other exciting majors once they get there. Stanford pushes people hard to explore themselves to make sure they pursue as many interests as they can to find the right major for themselves.</p>
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<p>That is a very fair assumption to make. Considering Duke’s history with hispanic students, it is also fair to assume that a hispanic female student might find her experience at Stanford a tad more welcoming. She might also have preferred to not having to deal with the freshman separation in terms of dorms. </p>
<p>Fwiw, the differences among the top 10 if not top 20 BME programs are minimal, and subject to personal preferences. </p>
<p>Some of you here are so catty about full need vs scholarship. Sounds like jealousy to be honest. Full ride is a full ride. Furthermore she likely was given some merit scholarships.</p>
<p>I haven’t been involved in this discussion, but I guarantee you that jealousy is not a part of this discussion. The problem is with news stories that say that a particular student “got a full scholarship to Harvard.” The general public doesn’t realize that statement only means that the student was awarded full financial aid. Even the high school I have volunteered at makes these statements to our community. “X student got a full scholarship to Columbia U.” And every “buys it,” that this student got a full academic scholarship because they don’t know any better. It’s our district’s way of bragging about their students to a community which doesn’t know any better. “Full ride” doesn’t mean “full academic ride” unless it REALLY is.</p>
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<p>I agree.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize until we started researching college costs that many top colleges did not have merit scholarships since I always heard the story of Person X got a full scholarship at Big School Y. </p>
<p>More importantly, this was another missed opportunity to educate people about how the system actually works and the availability of aid from a variety of sources.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, the media is no longer about education and enlightenment. It is about sensationalizing stories to get more clicks either that or they are just lazy. Very similar to how almost every college debt story has the sob story of someone who borrowed $300k and has no job prospects. Surprising to find that the average debt for people who graduate with debt is less than $30k.</p>
<p>…oh and congrats to the student! Hope she chooses Stanford!</p>
<p>@laxripper I guess it depends on what you think the role of the media is.</p>
<p>If it is to romanticize stories and leave out important facts, okay, that is one view.</p>
<p>A half-decent journalist would know how to tell this story in a hugely positive and uplifting way without changing the facts.</p>
<p>Oh, and she isn’t a “lower class girl”. She is a woman who comes from a lower income bracket.</p>