Getting into Stanford

frankchn
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:08:13 +0000

Would an international student studying in the U.S. have an advantage or disadvantage, compared to his friends studying in their home country when he applies to Stanford or Ivy Leagues schools, in terms of seat allocation?



I believe there are no advantages or disadvantages. Of course, international students are definitely going to be held to higher standards than typical American students, and much higher standards than American students with hooks (legacies, developmental admits and such). Therefore, previous admissions data at the top boarding schools might be highly misleading and/or entirely irrelevant to an unhooked international applicant since there are so many hooked American applicants there.



One of my friends plans to send his grade 10 daughter who is studying in local school to a summer course at Stanford. Would this help improve the chance in the future? Anyone of you guys did summer courses at Stanford or any top schools to add into your portfolio?



I did EPGY at Stanford but I don’t think it gave me any advantage compared to my peers.