This is very common at our private. The CCO helps with this extensively. |
Same |
W schools do this too. |
What year does the schools college counselor start with these talks?
Junior year? |
None, if my kid can't get into his desired major at whatever school then that school isn't for us, I'm not going to put him in a position to try to transfer in. The gamesmanship these people go through for bragging rights, you really have problems. Let your kid be a kid and stop trying to work the system. |
You would think Stanford would be wise enough to do some internal research on this. How difficult would it be? Some work study computer kid could do it, with access to high school transcripts. First cut would be looking at kids, longitudinally, who had intended under-subscribed majors, then looking at their high school transcript (AI can do this), and coding for AP Computer Science and/or 5 years of science (meaning an extra science was chosen as an elective) and/or multivariate calculus and/or AP Macro/Micro. Then, obviously, comparing this to what the kids actually ended up majoring in. That first-level analysis alone might well “out” most of the switcheroos. Then you can get down into the data, isolate/combine variables, come up with new variables etc. |
^^ why do you care so much?
Stanford likes that all their humanities kids are CS double majors. It’s their “thing”… |
it's sad so many of you send the message to your kids they can't get into these schools on their own merit, you need to move to the middle of nowhere, fake their majors, fake their interests, cultivate their ECs based not on what they like but what you think will help. So these schools really don't want them, the real them, they want this fake cultivated version of them, because they just aren't good enough.
It's actually not sad, it's pathetic. |
Hate the game. Not the player. |
Not if they did not declare a CS major in the first place. As explained above, there is no real resource difference between a double major in CS and something undersubscribed, and a straight CS major. Also, Stanford knows it is more and more being perceived as an MIT with supplementary “enrichment” classes. If it truly wants to be known as the best college in America (I think it is still tied with Harvard for this honor, US News aside), it needs to stymie this festering wound. |
Stanford explicitly allows anyone to come there and major in CS. Talk to students. Read on unigo.
The school knows what kids are doing. It’s not a secret. https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/03/the-most...ter-quarter-courses/ |
Wake up. No kid gets into any of these schools “on their own merit.” Even those kids you think got in on their “own merit,” by not “gaming,” had innumerable privileges enabling to be who they are — privileges that in many cases were far more meaningful than the measures you sanctimoniously decry. |
Clearly you are not getting the point. Of course they know, but only looking into the black box of admissions reveals the extent of their ongoing actions to curtail it. |
Maybe they don’t want to curtail it. It’s working out for them. |
Several podcasts discuss “strategic positioning”.
Search apple? |