<li>Where are you applying from?</li>
<li>What’s your high school / college GPA?</li>
<li>Strongest accomplishment.</li>
<li>Did you apply to Stanford in high school? </li>
<li>If rejected, what’s your alternative plan? </li>
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<p>I will start off.</p>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>High School: 2.8 out of 4.0 // College: 3.87 out of 4.0 </li>
<li>Published a 2500 word article in one of the top three American newspapers(LAT/WP/NYT) during my senior year in high school (age 18) </li>
<li>Nope. Wasn’t interested at all. But now, after months of research, I’m fired up. It’s exactly the kind of place I want to be. Go Cardinals!</li>
<li>Stay at NYU and re-apply again next year…?</li>
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<li><p>Where are you applying from? CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (Quebec, Canada)</p></li>
<li><p>What’s your high school / college GPA? HS gpa: 94/100 COLLEGE GPA: 4.26/4.30 (After 3 semesters)</p></li>
<li><p>Strongest accomplishment. Err…Non-academic. Co-founded a free summer camp initiative for underprivileged local youth in an effort to fight childhood obesity. Got enough success the first year that the municipal gvmt subsided us for the second year. Academic: 3-month marketing internship in Lyon, Paris. (I’m a marketing major).</p></li>
<li><p>Did you apply to Stanford in high school? Nope.</p></li>
<li><p>If rejected, what’s your alternative plan?
Columbia…if not then, Rocky road ice cream, advil, and Grey’s Anatomy on DVD and I hate Grey’s Anatomy…It’s not gonna be a pretty sight.</p></li>
<li><p>Prediction: They predict about 40 admissions. Expecting a miracle like pretty much everyone. At this point a waitlist will equal a rejection imo.</p></li>
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<ol>
<li><p>Where are you applying from? The University of Texas at Austin</p></li>
<li><p>What’s your high school / college GPA? High School UW: 3.89/4.0, College: 4.0/4.0</p></li>
<li><p>Strongest accomplishment: UT Ultimate Frisbee Team (9th in nation), founded a breakdancing club at UT</p></li>
<li><p>Did you apply to Stanford in high school? Yep, rejected EA</p></li>
<li><p>If rejected, what’s your alternative plan? Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wharton</p></li>
<li><p>Applying as a? (Added) Incoming sophomore</p></li>
<li><p>Do you think you will get in? (Added) Waitlist, I think for me.</p></li>
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<p>undisclosed//wow…what a strong GPA! dang! how do u know they’re considering 40(unlike 20 lst. yr.)? ivy-transfer//haha wow…did u send videos of your dance(as performing arts supp.) to stanford??</p>
<p>Haha, thanks. Though I severely choked on the SATs and did really poorly (1800s) so overall I may be considered weaker than others academically-speaking. :(</p>
<p>undisclosed// haha thanks for the link. at least better than last year…haha. ivy-transfer// nah…</p>
<p>"We know that applicants want to distinguish themselves as much as possible in the application process, and applicants often want to submit supplementary materials such as poetry, videos, novels, or photocopies of awards and programs, and the like. </p>
<p>We ask, however, that you please resist the impulse to send us extra items." </p>
<p>from the website really took away any impulse LOL.</p>
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<li><p>Where are you applying from? Central New Mexico Community College</p></li>
<li><p>What’s your high school / college GPA? High School UW: Homeschooled College: 3.8/4.0</p></li>
<li><p>Strongest accomplishment: U.S. Competitive figure skater. Founded a skating program in Thailand for underprivileged kids. Did a research project on Human Sexuality. Founded Student Government at my school. Drank a gallon of milk in less than an hour…didn’t puke.</p></li>
<li><p>Did you apply to Stanford in high school? No</p></li>
<li><p>If rejected, what’s your alternative plan? Yale, Cornell, Northwestern, Burger King.</p></li>
<li><p>Applying as a? Junior</p></li>
<li><p>Do you think you will get in? Not for me to decide.</p></li>
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<ol>
<li><p>From: Nowhere spectacular. I’m basically a CC applicant with some dual-enrollment in a state university.</p></li>
<li><p>What’s your high school / college GPA? High School: 3.3? University: ~3.8.</p></li>
<li><p>Strongest accomplishment: I’m a nontraditional applicant. Don’t want to get too specific, but I’ve got good soft factors. Also glowing recommendations from my uni professors in upper division major work.</p></li>
<li><p>Did you apply to Stanford in high school? No.</p></li>
<li><p>If rejected, what’s your alternative plan? Waiting on Berkeley, accepted into UCSD. I’d be happy with either of those, but I’d far prefer Stanford.</p></li>
<li><p>Applying as a? Junior.</p></li>
<li><p>Do you think you will get in? I think I have a realistic chance, somewhere around 1 in 1400. (;</p></li>
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<p>Good luck to everyone. SKG: There’s also an “Official 2008 Stanford Transfer” thread if you’re interested in seeing who else is out there. I think it’s dead, though. (;</p>
<p>PS: Anyone have a source on how many transfer applicants there are this year?</p>
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<li><p>The other side of the bay.</p></li>
<li><p>4.0 (unweighted) /4.0</p></li>
<li><p>Some modest high school accomplishments, nothing as spectacular or socially impactive as what others on this thread have listed.</p></li>
<li><p>No, and it was a poor decision. Chances would have been much higher then.</p></li>
<li><p>Perhaps try again next year. There’s grad school too.</p></li>
<li><p>Sophomore transfer.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s hard to say. I think I’ll make it past the first or second cut, if such things exist, but who really knows what they’re looking for? They could decide that my reasons for wanting to transfer aren’t compelling enough or aren’t as meaningful as another applicant’s. Maybe they’ll read my essays and get the impression that I’m not the right fit for their campus culture. Really, who the hell knows? It would be interesting if a former admissions committee member came out and revealed what really goes on during the process, especially at schools where the admit rate is so low. I want to know how Stanford made the cutoff at 20 people last year, how they decided that #20 was more qualified than #21. Sorry for this rant, it’s just so frustrating. Hah, how did it happen that I fell in love with this school? And to think of what time, effort, money, and eventual heartbreak I could have saved had I not!</p></li>
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<p>Best of luck to all of you. I hope we hear some success stories.</p>
<p>Thanks for that link. It was very insightful. From the reading though, unfortunately for me, it seems like they value junior transfers more than sophomores. I wonder how much that has changed since it was printed. They also stressed how important it is to have course breadth. By no fault of my own, this puts me at a disadvantage. I have to take a number of prerequisite technical classes to be able to declare my major. I’ve been able to sneak in something from other disciplines here or there, but I’m afraid it won’t be good enough.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say it is no fault of your own. You chose the major, and the requirements are a part of choosing a major. If you’re upset with your class choices because they don’t do a good job pandering to a few admissions officers then so be it; school is about paying obscene amounts of money for the choice to study something you want to learn.</p>
<p>brackis: You’re right that my circumstance is a consequence of my own actions. I shouldn’t have written that so quickly without considering what I was saying. With regard to “the choice to study something you want to learn”, you’re absolutely right. I value that much more than what Stanford’s admissions committee will think about the balance of my coursework. If it works against me, then so be it.</p>
<p>Cool :), hope it doesn’t hurt, but with Stanford it might have been doomed regardless ;). At least you’d have a nice technical base of coursework to be proud of.</p>