Chance Me- Stanford REA

Woandering
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:45:29 +0000

Have you done a lot of research on Stanford as a school?

They don’t have business majors for undergraduate. What you might be interested in is the Management Science and Engineering degree, plus the computer science degree if you still want it.

Your ECs look okay by Stanford standards. If you could talk indepth about one of them in an essay, that would be great. Unless something great happened with your mobile applications business, don’t talk about that in your essay, but do mention it in your list of ECs. I suggest talking about the TEDx talk you gave, since that is fairly unique.

Your scores aren’t great. If you could push up that SAT to 2200s or 2300s, you would have a much better chance, obviously. A 2100 should get them to look carefully at your app tho. I suggest taking Calc BC if possible, since computer science does have a lot to do with math.

As always, top schools like Stanford are a crapshoot, but you do have a fairly strong app, so good luck.

P.S About the microsoft bootcamp, was the prereqs really hard? It’s mainly for adults, but I really want to do it, too.