Does Stanford accept students with 3 GPA.

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Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:37:41 +0000

A lot of these posts are pretty negative, but honestly, EVERYONE has a low low chance of getting in! Unless you don’t want to spend the money, you might as well apply! The worst that can happen is you won’t get in, which happens to a LOT of people, but if you don’t apply there is no chance that you DO get in! Yes its a slim chance, but who’s isn’t? I say go for it … why not?



If you’ve ever taken economics before, you should know what opportunity costs are. The explicit cost of applying to Stanford includes the application fees, postage, and the money required to send scores from Collegeboard. That stuff isn’t too bad; it’s the implicit costs you have to be aware of.

This includes the large amount of effort and time required to write essays, especially since Stanford has essays that are pretty different from anyone else’s, meaning you can’t reuse any. Also, you have to ask for recommendations, transcripts, etc.

Now, this time could be better spent applying to a college that he has a better chance of getting into. It’s already given that he has a very very low chance of being accepted to Stanford, so what if all this effort could have been the difference for him getting into a school he had a better chance at?

So, no, the worst thing that can happen is NOT that you get rejected from Stanford. The worst that can happen is you get rejected from Stanford AND you get rejected from a school that you could’ve gotten into if you had put that extra time into it, had you not applied to Stanford.