Anonymous
04/05/2018 07:56
Subject: Re:Stats it takes for a student to get into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton & Yale (2018)
Anonymous
04/04/2018 21:00
Subject: Stats it takes for a student to get into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton & Yale (2018)
Hope he gets an aid package that requires a 3.5 average each year. Hope he knocks it out of the park on a difficult STeM major.
Anonymous
04/04/2018 17:59
Subject: Stats it takes for a student to get into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton & Yale (2018)
Anonymous wrote:For my son it took 17 sacks and 31 tackle for loss over 45 games giving him a production ratio of 1.55. That plus 5.21 in the 40 yard dash and 42 reps in the bench press to get offers from all of the above. He went to Stanford which was our compromise between football and academics.
Academic stats were UW GPA of 3.2, ACT 28. His GPA would have been higher but he had a terrible 9th grade year. He took a couple of AP classes in high school, did well in the class but never took the AP exams - no point when you have a free ride for 5 years.
My suggestion - pick a sport and be a standout player.
Most real stats on here.
Every university wants to send one to the NFL.
Anonymous
04/03/2018 20:36
Subject: Re:Stats it takes for a student to get into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton & Yale (2018)
Intelligence, creativity, knowledge and expression reduced to an intense infatuation in assessing “high quality”American education with coloring bubbles with a number 2 pencil.
How far education in this land has fallen!
Signed by Bubble Lady
How far education in this land has fallen!
Signed by Bubble Lady
Anonymous
04/03/2018 16:56
Subject: Re:Stats it takes for a student to get into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton & Yale (2018)
Anonymous wrote:I saw this student on College Confidential and was blown away when he got into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Here's a direct link for those interested: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chanc...-chance-me-for-ivy.html#latest
The young man in The Times and CNN deserved admission to elites. But this young man above absolutely does not warrant getting into the same caliber of elite schools. His accomplishments are completely pedestrian! Also seems like pretty strong ammo for lawyers of Asian families suing these elite universities.
Do not be deceived by numbers alone. Einstein was not an A+++ student!!
And those who recognize this will always take Einstein over the A+ student.
Is that you bubble lady?
Anonymous
04/03/2018 15:46
Subject: Re:Stats it takes for a student to get into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton & Yale (2018)
Anonymous wrote:I saw this student on College Confidential and was blown away when he got into Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Here's a direct link for those interested: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chanc...-chance-me-for-ivy.html#latest
The young man in The Times and CNN deserved admission to elites. But this young man above absolutely does not warrant getting into the same caliber of elite schools. His accomplishments are completely pedestrian! Also seems like pretty strong ammo for lawyers of Asian families suing these elite universities.
Do not be deceived by numbers alone. Einstein was not an A+++ student!!
And those who recognize this will always take Einstein over the A+ student.
Einstein was clearly very intelligent as a child: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/02/11/was-albert-einstein-really-a-bad-student-who-failed-math/?utm_term=.8ddc209f85ed
"at age 9½, he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium, a competitive school. He liked some subjects better than others but progressed through school, again earning high marks. By age 11, he was reading college physics books... He did fine in math, but he did flunk the entrance exam to the Zurich Polytechnic when he first took it — when he was about 1 1/2 years away from graduating high school, at age 16, and hadn’t had a lot of French, the language in which the exam was given."