<p>^^</p>
<p>Glad you did. It was uber-funny… XD</p>
<p>Haha Prussia. Sorry about that, it tends to happen unfortunately. I might’ve misunderstood your post, but:</p>
<p>I just meant that I don’t entirely agree that Stanford looks at every part of an individual in equality. From what I’ve read, they still give an applicant’s academics a thorough look through (if that makes any sense).</p>
<p>Maybe I’m wrong. I just believe that even if someone has pretty good EC’s and other “outside school” activities, Stanford will still take a good look at their academics. In other words, academics is still quite substantial in regards to what I mentioned above.</p>
<p>(Eh, I just woke up, so my explanation might be very weak 
)</p>
<p>I think when deciding in Stanford Admissions, it’s not what’s the most important part of the application, but the part of the application with the most variance. </p>
<p>For example, academics: they all say it’s #1 on their list; high GPA, high SAT, good grades.
And it probably is worth the most, but since most SCEArs will already have the aforementioned qualities above, it’s not useful for determining who’s in and who’s out.</p>
<p>I think it’s the essays, extracurriculars (though probably not as much as the essays), and recommendations which will actually be the deciding factors; they’re supposedly a smaller part of your application, but a much more valued one, as anything can be written, said, accomplished etc. </p>
<p>Am I correct on this? At least this is what I think</p>
<p>Hi guys How’s everyone’s weekend? I just got a haircut. Actually I got several hairs cut but you get the point. Come on guys let’s turn that frown upside down! lol I just don’t want to mope too long on these will I get accepted thing. On December whatever I’ll get that email and I guess I’ll find out then. From the pledges when it comes to objective stats like GPA and test scores, we are all qualified in that category, so it really just comes downs to essays and recs which will help them pick out a diverse (by diverse I don’t mean race, I mean more like way of thinking) class of 2014.</p>
<p>PS: I agree with Rolandic.</p>
<p>so starmie and anyone else from Cali, are earthquakes as scary as people from out of state think?</p>
<p>“Actually I got several hairs cut.” LOL that was funny.</p>
<p>ugh daho doesn’t have ANY natural disasters unless you live really close to a river and then flooding might be a problem. This place is too perfect. The scenery is beautiful and snowboarding is awesome, and camping’s nice too, but other than that there really isn’t much. Then again natural disasters break things…so I really shouldn’t be complaining.</p>
<p>Where are you from Quasi Profound? Your location says “Where the grass is green and the girls are sexually frustrated”, aren’t teenagers like that everywhere? Being in mega conservative Idaho and having ultra strict Indian parents, my dating life has been nonexistent…</p>
<p>We have tornadoes, which are kind of scary sometimes, especially if they get close but everyone here has a basement.
Ice storms are pretty cool, last year we got out of school for a week because there as 6 inches of ice.</p>
<p>I’m actually from India, where parents aren’t nearly as strict as Indian parents are in the US. (Urban parents anyway.)</p>
<p>My location is a CC international students inside joke, lol.</p>
<p>ICE STORMS! I’ve always wanted to see one of those.</p>
<p>I’ve seen (and had my car DESTROYED by) baseball size hail! Oklahoma may have the worst weather ever. summers are 100 plus degrees, winters are ridiculously cold (it’s the wind that gets you). We have tornadoes, ice storms, intense thunderstorms, and occasionally week long rainstorms.</p>
<p>Well Quasi, my parents are strict mainly because they only want me dating Indian girls and sadly there aren’t any here…so maybe that’s why Indian parents here may be stricter. In India most girls are Indian so if I lived there my parents would be probably be ok with me dating.</p>
<p>That sounds pretty interesting. Our weather range stays within like 15 degrees. We do get floods in June-August though, knee-high water and cancelled school.</p>
<p>Ahhh Diivio I never thought of it that way. Makes sense. It just seems to me sometimes that NRIs are stuck thinking of Indian culture the way it was yeeeeeears ago though.</p>
<p>nah My mom visits India occasionally and India’s actually very liberal (the urban areas at least) contrary to it’s stereotypes. I’m sure some American Indians might think it’s conservative, but they must just be ignorant of modernization lol. In fact some places here in the US are more conservative that some areas in the Middle East in my opinion, and I realize how strong of a statement that is but it’s true not going to name these rural areas that I’ve been to where I’ve seen this but there are few.(thankfully the place in Idaho that I live in isn’t like that).</p>
<p>I realize that. My friend visited Purdue last year and not that Purdue’s especially conservative, but she definitely ran into some people who would be overwhelmed by the liberalism in Kolkata (where I live.) What part of India are you from btw?</p>
<p>It could snow in Nebraska in August, melt the next day, create a flash flood, the flood would be sucked up by a tornado, and then it would rain down in hellish balls of hail–We would still call it Typical Nebraska Weather.</p>
<p>Purdue means “I am farting” in Russian by the way. That is all.</p>
<p>ARE YOU RUSSIAN!!! Omg.</p>
<p>@ Quasia: No I’m from Michigan. My grandparents on both sides of my family are from India and they moved to Malaysia, so my parents are Malaysian Indians, and then they moved to Michigan, where I grew up and then moved here to Idaho when I was 9. I’m Hindu by religion. I guess by region, my mom’s side is Malyali and my dad’s side is Tamil I think but not 100% sure.</p>