Stanford Undergrad Applications Hit New High

phantasmagoric
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:35:17 +0000

Wahoomb,



which I’m amazed that even at the graduate level, you find plenty of on this campus.



I personally have not heard of graduate-level legacy admissions. Do the grad school applications to Stanford have a space to list your legacy affiliations? (I just finished a PhD application to Stanford, and there wasn’t anywhere to put affiliation, though it might depend on what program you apply to and whether it’s MS or PhD.)



Lets include a… AFFIRMATIVE ACTION into the mix of admitted students.



This always makes me laugh, because Stanford is the only elite school (among HYPSM, at least) that gets a lot of flack for AA. If you look at the % of students in each minority category, against a school like Harvard, both have 8% black students; both have about 1% native (Stanford’s total native population has dropped from its previous 3%); and both are 17-18% Asian; and though Stanford has a higher proportion of Hispanic students, that’s to be expected given that it gets a large portion of its applicants from California, which has an extremely large Hispanic population.

This is, at least from what I’ve seen on CC, how people tend to treat AA for different schools, even though the statistics tell them otherwise.