<p>@girlrockingguna, they didn’t find out when until the morning of the day admissions came out</p>
<p>i think that people that get in with incredibly low scores/gpa should be ignored because they are outliers</p>
<p>Stanford will have its own standards and coaches are allowed a set number of such low level students. It does seem possible to get admitted with a score of 18 although i don’t see 2.0 gpa being admitted.</p>
<p>But let’s say Stanford football wants the athlete BAD!!! But, the athlete has a 2.0 GPA. Which is the minimum for D1 eligibility.</p>
<p>Then, what happens when that student shows up to campus in the fall and cannot handle Stanford’s immense workload? And then he ends up academically ineligible. Then what? So, no, you have to be qualified for schools like Stanford even though you may be an athlete.</p>
<p>It is not all that logical or else they would not be admitting anyone with an 18 score.</p>
<p>I have proof that at least my application wasn’t looked at until yesterday. In my personal statement I wrote about how I made a website for my school newspaper and had a link to it in the essay. Naturally, I put a location tracker on the website so I know when someone visits and where in the world. I have been tracking it regularly and it wasn’t accessed from Stanford, CA until yesterday. I find it really shocking though, I would have expected them to be almost finished by now, not just looking starting to read it.</p>
<p>Forget the test score, I’m talking about the 2.0 GPA.</p>
<p>@areropromaster: So the adcoms did lie <em>gasp</em></p>
<p>At least you know you were reviewed.</p>
<p>@aeropromaster, you may be a borderline applicant. As in, they’re not sure whether to accept you or not. So, they went to the website you provided to find out additional information about you.</p>
<p>@aeropromaster: That doesn’t mean the adcoms lied. You assume that they would’ve looked at the link when they read the essay; that’s not necessarily true. It’s possible they just took you at your word initially or didn’t have the need to look at the website until now. It’s not necessarily an initial reading. This could also be a committee reading. Remember about your regional admissions officer who reads your application first. (That might suggest you made it to the committee!)</p>
<p>In the end, remember this: for the past three years at least, they have released decisions on the Friday before the 15th. They’ve been doing this for quite a while and I doubt there are any gotchas in applications from the class of 2012 that would trip them up.</p>
<p>[Applicant</a> Profile : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/basics/selection/profile.html]Applicant”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/basics/selection/profile.html)</p>
<p>Since Stanford does not state the GPA’s below 3.7 it is hard to predict. However, 18 ACT score is at 34 percentile and Stanford is a 7% admit school. So there are exceptions to the rules.</p>
<p>Yes, but we don’t know if those students are athletes or not.They could be developmental cases or URM’s like Native American. I think we all know Stanford’s commitment to Affirmative Action and their Native American community like pow-wow’s etc…</p>
<p>P.S. I’m not trying to insinuate URM’s and developmental cases are underachievers.</p>
<p>I would imagine that they would look at the site at the time of the first reading. At least for me, when I included my website, it would be able to offer insight to a lot of things.</p>
<p>Aeropropmaster: I honor you. Excellent job on the tracking. We have no idea what it means that the person linked to your site only yesterday. The great news for you, as far as I’m concerned, is that they cared enough to look at it. Right on, dude!</p>
<p>**** im editor in chief of our paper and made a website but didn’t put it on any part of my application. ****.</p>
<p>@aeropromaster: where did you place the link? commonapp essay? i didn’t know you could place links on the apps:P</p>
<p>Thank you Newtocollege and everyone else that replied! I agree that the adcoms probably already read my essay once (there’s no way they could start this late). Hopefully it means that I’m at least borderline! I’m an unhooked Indian with decent test scores so I thought I had no chance</p>
<p>fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck why arent i smart like aeropromaster</p>
<p>genius idea btw</p>
<p>stanfordCS - You keep bringing this discussion back to URM admissions with low scores.</p>
<p>There are a couple of basketball star sisters from Houston on Stanford team whose academics I believe are probably far superior to yours and I mean that sincerely.</p>
<p>They have a lot of URMs in athletics and don’t need to fill joe bloggs with 2.0 and 18 just because of the color of their skin.</p>
<p>burn 10char</p>
<p>It only says they were on the site for 1 second, so I’m starting to think it was an audit more than anything…</p>