Stanford freshman answering questions....

trojan1444
Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:05:26 +0000

The quarter system is kinda rushed…your first midterms are only a few weeks after classes start, and as soon as you recover from those you have more midterms in a few more weeks. The one good thing is that if you don’t like a class you can just think to yourself that it will be over in a couple more weeks. Also, you get to take more classes in a year and see what you like.

For “smartchineseboy”, here are my stats:

SAT I: 780 Verbal, 750 math
SAT II: 800 Math IIC, 800 Writing, 740 US History

GPA: 4.25 W, 4.0 UW
Rank: 3 of 515

AP’s:
-US History 5
-Eng Comp 5
-Chem 3
-Spanish 2
(I had other ones senior year, but these are the only scores Stanford saw)

EC’s:
-Speech/Debate team (qualified for state and nationals)
-Newspaper news editor
-Varsity golf team, 4 years
-Student government
-Internship with state senator
-Couple of political summer programs

That’s the main stuff.

You look like you’re in the ballpark, since your stats are very similar to mine. I honestly didn’t think I was going to get in, and just applied cuz everyone at my school does.