Stanford accepted/current students: How'd You Do It?

iceui2
Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:05:47 +0000

You have to realize that the people who get into the top schools got into more than one. There is no “unique” formula that gets you into one school. And your statement that Princeton values wellroundedness more than say… Harvard or Yale is absolutely false. You can’t read one person’s statement and say that “oh, he’s really well-rounded and he got into Princeton. So Princeton must value wellroundedness.” Well of course they value wellroundedness. So does Harvard and Yale and Stanford and Columbia and… you get the point. The person who got into Princeton probably also got into many other top schools, but simply chose Princeton in the end. While UMich values AP courses more than Honors, so does every other top school in the country - AP classes are known to be harder and more challenging. So your purpose of posting this in every college thread is actually misleading and completely pointless. Instead, you should just post this in ONE thread and ask all the students at the top schools about how they do it. Then, you probably won’t be flamed and get decent responses. So lemme say this again… there is nothing “special” that each college values more than the other. If you’re a stellar student, chances are, all the top schools will accept you. So you should want to gain insight at the characteristics of those “top students”. To find that, just go to the “Results Thread” that is posted as a Sticky in every forum, where each student provides his or her stats/EC’s and whether or not he/she was accepted. You can learn a lot from those threads. I hope you follow my advice. Good luck.