Stanford students with low test scores

navbiha
Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:41:56 +0000

Every time I look at top-tier college applicant rates, I always see that there’s a very small group of accepted applicants who have lower than the average test score or was not in the top 10% of their class. What made these few students so lucky as to get accepted? One of my guesses is that they overcame some barriers but other than that I can’t think of any. I would say academic research or something, but that would mean they have to have at least some decent grades in their research area, right?

What do you all think?