accepted!
@heythereyall
Hi,
Iāll be applying next year and also scored a 3 on AP chem lol. We have very similar demographics so I thought Iād reach out to you and ask if you sent in that score. Thanks for your help
Congratz to all accepted!! I decided to enroll, so I hope to meet those of you enrolling in class of 2024!!
Accepted
Hispanic female from California
SAT: 770 Math 700 English
GPA: 4.55 weighted 3.97 unweighted
Class rank: 1/621
11 APās: 5 not yet taken, 2 5ās, 3 4ās, 1 3
Good ECās (treasurer of theatre, president of mock trial, community service, 3 jobs, student mentorship, organized TEDx conference, varsity swim)
Decent? essays
Good letters of rec
@ejhockey31
Hey! I was accepted and I got a 3 on AP chem too. On my other APās, I got 2 5ās and 3 4ās. There are many who got mostly or all 5ās that may have been waitlisted or rejected, so really one score is a small part of your application. My counselor always told me, as a rule of thumb, to submit all your scores. Besides, I applied as an Economics major, so a weakness in chemistry isnāt a huge deal. Donāt stress too much about test scores; essays and letters of rec are where itās at. Best of luck to you (:
@ejhockey31, I too would not worry about. My D also got a 3 on her very first AP exam and it later turned out she added Stanford as one of four colleges to receive free reports, and apparently it didnāt weigh her down. Colleges understand that things happen, especially with exams that cannot be retaken, students get sick, or may just be having a bad day. If that 3 is an outlier rather than a pattern, you are totally fine.
1320 SAT
4.0 gpa unweighted/ 4.8 weighted
13 AP classes
Waitlisted: Stanford
Accepted: USC, UMich, UMadison, Case Western, UIUC
Rejected: Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Yale, UWash, John Hopkins
Accepted! Stanford was my dream college, and I wasnāt expecting this.
1560 SAT (took 6 times)
international student from a country with many applicants
rank: 25/220
6 5s and 2 4s
Accepted: Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth
Rejected: Yale REA, Princeton, Harvard
Accepted too! Blessed and still shocked as Stanford accepted 2 students from her high school. Any info on financial aid yet? We didnāt see any.
Accepted: Stanford, Duke, UW-Madison, university of Florida-Gainsville.
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Waitlisted: UPenn, Columbia
Hey there everyone
Got rejected straight up, have to say Iām a little disappointed lol. But then again, I shouldāve gone into this knowing that my chances were basically nil.
Iām an international student and I asked for financial aid, and I think itās a shame that top universities like Stanford pass up the opportunity to accept equally or even brighter children to accept students from the United States (they accept around 200-250 international students every year). With that, Iād like to say that even though Stanford was my dream school and I have another year to reapply because I have to serve in the army, Iād rather not apply to a school thatās made up itās mind not to accept me.
Stats: 1580 SAT, 800 Math 2, 790 Chem, 750 Physics
Grades: straight Aās (except a B in chem), predicted grades: straight A*s
Recommendation letters: 9/10, 10/10
essays: best part of my application, spent almost two months on them.
ECās: was lead bassist for music performances hosted for thousands of people, led the video game production club in our school, won two game jams, coached the two teams that came first and second place for another two years, interned with an IT Security firm and the software development team of our schoolās organization. Played music for a leading rally in India to save our dying rivers. Taught at a school for underprivileged children. Developed a software for our schoolās organization to generate reports on scholarship studentsā performance in class.
Weaknesses in my application: Iām Asian, and an international student and I asked for financial aid. My ECās probably donāt look like a lot in front of some kids that solved cancer or created a homeless shelter for old people. No national awards or anything.
Comments: Next stop MIT
@Kailash331 I feel your disappointment but donāt lose sight of the fact that you have alot to give and the right school will benefit from that and you will look back and glad it worked out this way. When one door closes, another one opens. This will only make you stronger. A setback is a setup for a comeback! Best wishes!
@Kailash331 MIT is my sonās dream school. He is in 10th grade and on track.
@Kailash331 You sound like an excellent candidate! Iād like to read your essays if thatās possible.
Congratulations to all the students who got accepted! Your hard work paid off!
Congratulations to all the students who got acceptance from
Stanford ! Hard school to get in!
Did anyone get financial aid award along with the admit letter? We applied for financial aid but didnāt see any on the admit letter. Or do Stanford release financial aid on April 1st.
@Luvbadgers , there should be 2 letters in your application portal, 1 acceptance letter, 1 financial aid. First time we logged in was only acceptance letter, logged in again and we see finaid letter displayed.
Hey @Michiedel,
thank you for the support! I guess I was just a bit put out by the fact that I got rejected but youāre right, a lot of options are open.
@GAParent2017 when my daughter log into her Stanford portal and under status update, we click view update and only saw the admit letter with confetti. āIt stated that an update to your application was last posted March 27, 2020ā.
Under the heading for Forms:
It only shows āStanford admission responseā
Should there be an other area to look for the financial aid or do we create axess? I checked idoc and Stanford received our documents before the deadline. I went back and sent fafsa to Stanford today so hope itās not too late.
@Luvbadgers, when we scroll down to the bottom of the browser, it list the two documents like
The following letters are available for this account:
- March 27, 2020 (displayed)
- Financial Aid Information - March 27, 2020 *******************************************************************
If the FinAid is not there, you may have to call the office on Monday. I doubt it is too late to submit FASFA/CSS, you just have to wait for 10 days for them to arrive/process.
BTW, the above list shows up after you click āView Updatesā