Stanford: What the ....

justadream92
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:32:33 +0000

Hope Full:

In my experience, the Ivies accepts only those URMs who are very close to their typical standards (excepting, of course, football/basketball players and children of famous people), but Stanford truly digs deeper and accepts URMs who do not have very good SAT scores, grades, etc. They don’t accept idiots, of course, but they are willing to take chances on URMs that they believe have promise. I don’t see other top schools taking these same chances.

Grisam:

Most URMs accepted to Stanford are, to say the least, completely unremarkable.



Apologies. Clarification: My previous post was in response to these citations. Defining remarkability and degrees of qualification with a university using a holistic admissions process is relative to individual perspectives.