Who Got In?

Applying to College
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<p>taking a page from sammyjankis91’s book, i want to see what you guys think. one of the following people got into stanford. guess which one. actually, the disparity makes it obvious… but anyways, information i am aware of:</p>

<p>Person 1
[ul]
[<em>]Gender: M
[</em>]Ethnicity: W
[<em>]Income Bracket: >200k
[</em>]SAT/ACT: 2150/33
[<em>]GPA/Class Rank: ~4.7W/~3.96UW; 2nd
[</em>]Courseload: most rigorous, this year took AP Econ/Govt, AP Psych, AP Calc, Physics H, Art 1 req, Philosophy/Ethics H, AP Eng
[<em>]AP Tests: APUSH 3, APWH 4, AP Chem 5, took Eng Lit, Calc AB, and Psych this year
[</em>]ECs: 2 years football, 1 year water polo (first HS team in our area), 4 years basketball (2 varsity, 2 Section titles), 4 years swimming (4 varsity, 3 Section titles), 4 years CSF, 2 years Link Crew, Ford Dimension Dream Builders (a very prestigious, competitive volunteer/leadership program in our area), 4 years CLC (a school volunteer group)
[<em>]Awards: was just named SoCal Scholar Athlete, AP Scholar, numerous school/area athletic awards, Salutatorian, NM Commended
[</em>]Essays: very nice. not outstanding/amazing, but above average
[/ul]</p>

<p>Person 2
[ul]
[<em>]Gender: M
[</em>]Ethnicity: W
[<em>]Income Bracket: <60k
[</em>]SAT/ACT: 2080
[<em>]GPA/Class Rank: ~4.3W/~3.8UW; top 10%
[</em>]Courseload: rigorous, taking AP Econ/Govt, AP Psych, Calculus CP, Philosophy/Ethics H, AP Eng, AP Spanish
[<em>]AP Tests: APUSH 5, APWH 5, took Eng Lit & Lang, Psych
[</em>]ECs: 4 years swimming (4 varsity, 3 Section titles), 4 years mock trial (won district this year), 4 years CSF, TASP, Senior Class VP
[<em>]Awards: TASP
[</em>]Essays: great. our english teacher loved them.
[/ul]</p>

<p>Person 3
[ul]
[<em>]Gender: F
[</em>]Ethnicity: W
[<em>]Income Bracket: >200k
[</em>]SAT/ACT: ~2100
[<em>]GPA/Class Rank ~4.7W/~3.96UW; 3rd
[</em>]Courseload: rigorous, taking Adv/Jazz Band, Band, AP Calc, Physics H, AP Spanish, Philosophy/Ethics H, AP Eng
[<em>]AP Tests: APUSH 4, APWH 4 (I believe)
[</em>]ECs: 10 years karate, 8 years piano, 8 years band, 4 years golf (4 varsity, 3 Section titles), 4 years CSF (president last 2), 2 years Link Crew (president last year), also in Dream Builders
[<em>]Awards: Junior Miss (i think she was runner-up in CA)
[</em>]Essays: about the same as #1’s
[/ul]</p>

<p>after writing all that, i realize the difference makes it pretty obvious, but i wrote it all. waste not want not and all that.</p>

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<p>1? I think? Maybe…lol</p>

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<p>I’ll go with 3. lol, gotta love these kinds of things…</p>

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<p>This is a tough one.</p>

<p>1 and 3 are basically the same grade-wise. They both seem committed extra-curricularly. 1 doesn’t seem to have any leadership roles, and 3 has two that you stated.</p>

<p>The only thing I see going for 2 is TASP, which probably only gives a slight advantage. I would doubt that it’s enough to compensate for his inferior academics to the other two candidates.</p>

<p>Assuming 1 has some leadership that you forgot to state, I think he got in. If he didn’t have leadership, then I’d say that 3 got in.</p>

<p><em>fingers crossed</em></p>

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<p>silverturtle: that was how i reasoned it at the time.</p>

<p>if it helps, #3 applied SCEA, the other two applied RD</p>

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<p>any other takers?</p>

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<p>I’m gunna go out on a limb and say #2. </p>

<p>pm me the answer!</p>

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<p>Just for the heck of it, I’ll go with Person 2 since the admissions process has been totally crazy this year.</p>

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<p>I’m going 3.</p>

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<p>It’s OBVIOUSLY #2.</p>

<p>lol</p>

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<p>Person #2…</p>

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<p>I say #2 and that 1&3 are really ****ed</p>

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<p>so that’s</p>

<h1>1 - 1</h1>

<h1>2 - 5</h1>

<h1>3 - 3</h1>

<p>interesting…</p>

<p>EDIT: lol @ 3.7student</p>

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<p>2 I think; please PM me the answer.</p>

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<p>yeah^^^^^ me 2</p>

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<p>Answer time!</p>

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<p>I’ll go with #2.</p>

<p>From what I’ve seen, low-ish income applicants with stats that are comparable to higher income applicants are viewed very favorably.</p>

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<p>Which one had an impressive individual achievement outside of school? I don’t know if Dream Builders fits the bill, but TASP does. So I think the answer is 2.</p>

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<p>Dream Builders is a program run by the local Ford dealership, I think it’s in its 20th year, something like that. It’s a yearlong business leadership/community service program. Membership is competitive, they only take a few kids from each school in the city. The members are then broken up into groups that do various community service projects with a given budget. #1’s group did a project with elementary school kids on environmental awareness, and they made musical instruments out of recycled materials. Each group comes up with its own project and makes a presentation on it to the directors of the program. It is a MASSIVE commitment of time (which is why I didn’t apply for it, it would have been way too much for me). Dunno much about TASP, other than that the participants do a research project on some topic, and attend seminars and the like.</p>

<p>And yes, it was #2.</p>

<p>Now that that’s said, let’s play another game! Which of those same three got into UCLA?</p>

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<p>again, #2.</p>