*drum roll, please* Rejected from Stanford! Could someone give me a hand?

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<p>If you can get your SATs up a little you might be able to get into some of these places. White/male/CA/public really isn’t helping you.</p>

<p>If you can get your standards up, try for Duke. Top 10 school, amazing for job recruitment (#6 feeder school for top graduate schools by Wall Street Journal), highest average salary five years after graduation at $108,000, plus a perennial powerhouse basketball team along with incredible school unity/spirit. Really isn’t more you could as for. APPLY TO DUKE!!!</p>

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<p>The OP could probably do better than Duke…</p>

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<p>What I mean is, there isn’t much of an entrepreneurial spirit at Duke. Not a single G00gle- or Faceb00k-like founder in its entire alumni base.</p>

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<p>If you have ELC, and you are fine going to Irvine, then you dont need any other safeties</p>

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<p>I don’t know anything about athletic recruiting, but that Harvard coach seemed serious. What kind of Stanford information session was this? I would have totally gone on the paid plane trip to Harvard honestly, as most information sessions just regurgitate information from their viewbooks and are held several times a year. </p>

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<p>Doesn’t Duke have a top-ranked business school? You don’t need to have founded Google or Facebook to be successful. I’m sure there are some amazing entrepreneurs who are Duke alums.</p>

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Just to put your mind a bit at ease, the “male” part of the above is to your benefit. Statistics show that males currently have an advantage over females in college admissions. At some schools, a very large advantage. See the article linked in this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/829053-college-admission-rates-women-spur-civil-rights-probe-wash-post.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/829053-college-admission-rates-women-spur-civil-rights-probe-wash-post.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>BooksRnot4me Haven’t heard of Miami? Even the athletic teams and such?</p>

<p>Miami is a decent but not great private school in Florida that dishes out some impressive Gauranteed Merit-Aid based on test scores. Music Business and Marine Biology on top of their natural sciences are some of the strongest programs. Good weather, strong athletics, but smaller than most athletic-based schools. I don’t have first-hand experience, but I’ve heard people expect the campus to be nicer than it is given the location, but a decent school nevertheless.</p>

<p><strong>No, I hadn’t previously heard of UMiami, but after looking into the location, and a little more into the city of Miami, I just don’t think I’d be happy there. Thank you for the tip, though!</strong></p>

<p>andy_college09 If you can get your SATs up a little you might be able to get into some of these places. White/male/CA/public really isn’t helping you.</p>

<p>If you can get your standards up, try for Duke. Top 10 school, amazing for job recruitment (#6 feeder school for top graduate schools by Wall Street Journal), highest average salary five years after graduation at $108,000, plus a perennial powerhouse basketball team along with incredible school unity/spirit. Really isn’t more you could as for. APPLY TO DUKE!!!</p>

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What I mean is, there isn’t much of an entrepreneurial spirit at Duke. Not a single G00gle- or Faceb00k-like founder in its entire alumni base.
Doesn’t Duke have a top-ranked business school? You don’t need to have founded Google or Facebook to be successful. I’m sure there are some amazing entrepreneurs who are Duke alums.</p>

<p><strong>While the business school at Duke was quite attractive, it’s music program really didn’t interest me. I decided a while ago that I probably couldn’t go full-business or full-music and be happy with my college selection, but that if it came down to going all-in to one area, it’d be music (hence my Berklee application.) Yale has a fine department of recorded music, and while Harvard doesn’t have a recorded music program it’s music education in general is quite good. And it’s Harvard - the people I’d meet there would be some of the most interesting and motivated people there are.</strong></p>

<p>Xargon42 If you have ELC, and you are fine going to Irvine, then you dont need any other safeties</p>

<p><strong>I applied to UCI out of sheer locale - upon looking into it further I probably wouldn’t be happy there. Drexel and Berklee, for me, are applications worth filling out.</strong></p>

<p>schrizto<br>
I don’t know anything about athletic recruiting, but that Harvard coach seemed serious. What kind of Stanford information session was this? I would have totally gone on the paid plane trip to Harvard honestly, as most information sessions just regurgitate information from their viewbooks and are held several times a year. </p>

<p>**He was, though I misstated - I would have had to pay air fare, he would have just covered room + board for the weekend. The Stanford session was one of two in LA, and I actually did quite enjoy it: it convinced me to EA for Stanford, after all.</p>

<p>Come to think of it, I’m loathing that meeting in retrospect :]. **</p>

<p>alamemom<br>
Just to put your mind a bit at ease, the “male” part of the above is to your benefit. Statistics show that males currently have an advantage over females in college admissions. At some schools, a very large advantage. See the article linked in this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...wash-post.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...wash-post.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><strong>My mind is pretty at ease, but wow! I didn’t think that gender played too much of a role - guess I was wrong.</strong></p>

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<p>This is about as good as it gets for Duke entrepreneurship:</p>

<p>[Alumni</a> Profiles (Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network (DukeGEN))](<a href=“http://www.dukegen.com/profiles]Alumni”>http://www.dukegen.com/profiles)</p>

<p>Again, as I said earlier, “not a single G00gle- or Faceb00k-like founder in its entire alumni base.” Or even remotely close…</p>

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<p>Looks like you’ve got some good schools on your list. I would suggest that you add a couple more safeties that you would be happy attending. My daughter is at UCLA (4.3 gpa, 2160 sat) and had friends with stats, gpas, sat scores similar to yours with great ec’s and they were rejected. Remember 55,000 people apply to UCLA every year and at least 10,000 of them have great everything so UCLA and UCB should not be “safeties” for anyone (unless you are a recruited athlete, of course)</p>

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<p>Inquiringmind2<br>
Looks like you’ve got some good schools on your list. I would suggest that you add a couple more safeties that you would be happy attending. My daughter is at UCLA (4.3 gpa, 2160 sat) and had friends with stats, gpas, sat scores similar to yours with great ec’s and they were rejected. Remember 55,000 people apply to UCLA every year and at least 10,000 of them have great everything so UCLA and UCB should not be “safeties” for anyone (unless you are a recruited athlete, of course)</p>

<p>My current “safeties”/low tier are:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA
Drexel
Berklee
UCI</p>

<p>Would the fact that I’m in-state help me for UCLA? I’ve heard that it does, and with my decently good scores I think I’m virtually guaranteed for either UCLA or UCB - please correct me if I’m wrong, though. I’d be content at Drexel’s business school, and pretty quirkily happy at Berklee. UCI’s the black sheep, I’d probably rather take a year off than attend, but I’m pretty sure I’ll make it into most of the ones on my list. Thanks!</p>

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<p>I always try t be encouraging when I offer advice here. I think being in-state does help you for UCLA and UCB but please understand that nobody can be guaranteed admission to these two schools anymore. Remember they do not take teacher/counselor recommendations and you are limited in how many EC’s you can list. While 2180 is decent it is very much an average sat for those admitted to UCLA and UCB. So just don’t think of those schools as guarantees, that’s all I wanted to say. Just be sure you have 1-2 safeties that you would absolutely be happy attending. I think you can consider UCI a safety though. Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>Are you trying to say Duke grads aren’t successful in the business world? Why do you place so much emphasis on whether or not there is a “Google or Facebook-like founder” alumni of a school? Firstly, the chances of someone ending up starting the next Google/Facebook are slim, and secondly, there are many other important factors to take into account in choosing a school.</p>

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<p>Sometimes, it feels like everything I’ve ever done was leading up to trying to get into Stanford. I have a 2210 on the SAT, with a critical reading math score of 1550. I got 800 on Math II and 710 on Chemistry. I took online Calculus and Physics from Stanford’s youth programs, and in addition I attended a 3-week camp on contemporary art at the Stanford campus. I have a 4.0 GPA even though I pursue the hardest coursework availible at my school. I’m president of my school, do numerous extracurriculars, and received the highest marks possible on my teacher recommendations. But they still rejected me. To be honest, it hurts pretty badly.</p>

<p>In short, I know how you feel.</p>

<p>Maybe it was luck of the draw, maybe our essays, who know? The fact is, qualified students get rejected from school like Stanford all the time. We can’t let this bring us down. We’ve got to show schools like that up, succeed in spite of them. Make your list of acceptances as impressive as your list of rejections! And, if after four years you still hold to the Stanford dream, go there for grad school. Or, just let go of the dream and tell Stanford to suck it!</p>