<p>[Confessions</a> from Stanford – ARCHIVED](<a href=“http://confessionsfromstanford.blogspot.com%5DConfessions”>http://confessionsfromstanford.blogspot.com)</p>
<p>Great find Alea! Did not even know that blog existed…it should definitely help out and assuage any apprehension or “fear” for future applicants in applying to Stanford…</p>
<p>…not every successful applicant is a Olympic-level, Intel-Siemens winning, major app-developing, Carnegie-playing, entrepreneurial athlete…but, rather, GENUINE, AUTHENTIC, INDIVIDUALS, from all walks of life…who have CHARACTER.</p>
<p>gravitas2, you are so right!! My D is proof of that. She came from a small rural school (approx 120 students per grade level), only one AP class offered (AP English Lit), very limited extra curricular activities, no student had ever been accepted to Stanford (let alone an Ivy League school), all her SAT scores fell in the 25th percentile or lower for her freshman class entering fall 2009 and she is Caucasian. We had every indication that applying to Stanford would be a waste of time and money. But, she applied, got accepted and just graduated with honors. You can’t get accepted to any school, unless you apply.</p>