Stanford accepts differently??

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<p>^Your admissions officer sounds so uncouth. But I think there is a bit of truth to what he says… Perhaps he exaggerates a bit…</p>

<p>ANYWAYS…</p>

<p>In response to that, I have read on the Yale forum from Tokenadult, I think it was, that they have a regional director that gets the applications from his/her area and screens them to pass onto the main university. Which does have some accordance to what you said. But this is Yale. Looking back over older threads, a really popular one stuck out:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/525549-advice-admissions-officer-who-admitted-me-hs-students.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/525549-advice-admissions-officer-who-admitted-me-hs-students.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So… </p>

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…I just graduated from high school and now I’m off to Stanford…Stanford has an admit weekend for admitted students to help persuade them to come to the Farm and one of the activities was a picnic lunch on the quad with the regional admissions officer who admitted you. I sat with all of the other students from Illinois and Ohio and we talked about life at Stanford… until the conversation drifted to admissions. First we watched him recite fragments of each of our essays (after a one or two word prompt - “mine was about ballet!” or “do you remember the one about visiting Italy?”). That was amazing in itself since he reads a LOT of essays. For all you Stanford hopefuls - I guess a memorable essay helps more than I would have thought…

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<p>So I’m assuming they have a similar approach, where you are screened and passed on. Your regional admissions officer must be able to recognize you compared to the caliber of students in your area and judge it from there.
However, I doubt we can really understand the criteria looked for. I mean, last year at my school, one boy, ranked second in class of 290, very good athlete (not recruited or anything like that though), some community service, white, had a 2030 on the SATs and was waitlisted. Obviously to get waitlisted, he had to have passed the screening level. Pehaps boundaries are flexible, unspokenly towards race, or anything like that, but like I said in my previous post, if you are in the least, a flexible margin away from the median, you should be safe. And there’s no telling, so better not to frett.</p>