Stanford freshman answering questions....

trojan1444
Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:40:24 +0000

Your stats are just as good as mine are. Don’t sell yourself short. If I could give anyone applying to Stanford one piece of advice it’d be this: don’t stress TOO much about getting into Stanford (or Harvard, or Princeton, etc). If you’ve even got a SHOT at these schools, then even if you don’t get in you’re still going to get into a great school somewhere else, which is something that 99% of high school students won’t do.

You may think your life is over if you don’t get into an IVY or Stanford, but it’s not that big a deal. Most schools that you would consider under the ivies (UCLA, Georgetown, NYU, just to name a few) are just as good. It’s not like you won’t be able to get a job if you don’t graduate from Stanford.