Sophomore trying to get into Stanford

Johnny_Bear
Thu, 08 May 2008 12:18:33 +0000

You aren’t taking enough AP next year. Your scores are low. Your GPA is low. Stanford rejects 50% of 4.0 students who apply to their school. As for ECs, compete a lot and win awards, preferably ones that have been heard of.

Stanford is better than you can imagine. It’s full of compelling people. Sure, people will say that about other top schools out of political correctness. But Stanford is different; their students really are amazing (but not cutthroat competitive). There’s no one type of Stanford student. They try to admit very different people. If you’re a generic 4.0/2300 prestige whore they will see it on your application and reject you.