Does Stanford accept students with 3 GPA.

silverturtle
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:25:24 +0000

@ silverturtle: Yes, there are plenty of people who have a GREAT chance of getting in, and STILL get denied. There are plenty of people who I think would get denied, and they are accepted. Since none of us know the “secret” to getting accepted, we all have a slim chance and no one is sure they will get in.



If we are presented with, for instance, a URM with perfect grades, perfect standardized testing scores, and solid ECs, we can, with a reasonable degree of confidence, report that person’s chances as being very high. Does it mean that the applicant is ensured a spot? Of course not – they are, after all, chances. If a die has a 75% chance of not yielding two heads in a row yet it does, we do not have to invalidate our hypothesis, nor do we have to give up on making numerical estimations.