Transferring from Stanford to Brown

supersizeme
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:16:32 +0000

@nothingto – I believe transfer2010’s statement has some truth. Many schools practice affirmative action even if they don’t outright say so. In fact, if you look at black applicants applying to top schools, they have lower SAT scores on average. A lot of these kids truly do deserve to go to top schools but for socioeconomic reasons may not score well on the SAT as a richer applicant who has gone to expensive prep classes. The SAT isn’t an indicator of anything but supposed strength in a few archaic academic topics and colleges thus don’t weight the SAT as much on a black applicant who, again, may not have had the money to take a score-boosting prep class.

I didn’t want to assume the applicant was black (he may not be, after all) because that’s an unfair stereotype I’m attaching to all black applicants and low SAT scores literally has no correlation to how smart of successful any individual will be. A legacy scoring a 1700, on the other hand, is something I have a problem with. If the OP was a legacy at Stanford, his parents likely had the money for prep courses. If, after squandering money on prep courses, the OP still couldn’t break the 2000 barrier, then I have a problem.