SATs are not as important as you think.

muckdogs07
Sat, 19 May 2012 10:09:40 +0000

Wanderlust93

Congratulations re Stanford!!! You also makes a very important point – it is easier to follow your passions and do good things somewhere like Haiti than it is to be the one out of the hundred unhooked students who gains admission into Stanford primarily based upon SATs and grades. It also takes a special person to admit that and tell others as she has done.

Working with an NGO in Haiti is great, but it is also something that almost anyone on this site could do with some forethought and imagination. If not in Haiti than somewhere else. There are certainly plenty of places in America that could use the assistance, including non-profits like Amnesty or the ACLU that are not country specific and that have meaningful opportunities for young people to take leadership positions (ie, with a particular prisoner for example).