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Stanford admits, what were your SAT scores, your GPA and the extracurricular activities and community service that you pursued?

By Stanfordman99 (Stanfordman99) on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 03:45 pm: Edit

1580, 4.0 unweighted

I co-founded my own e-commerce company, was President of a club, did some science competitions, etc.

By Trojan1444 (Trojan1444) on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 05:50 pm: Edit

1530, 4.0 unweighted, 4.25 weighted
800 Math IIC, 800 Writing, 740 US History

-Speech and debate
-Newspaper news editor
-Varsity golf team
-student government stuff
-internship with state senator
-couple summer programs in DC

By Behnood15 (Behnood15) on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 06:19 pm: Edit

Did you guys participate in those extracurricular activites for 4 years?

By Behnood15 (Behnood15) on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 06:23 pm: Edit

How much time did you guys devote to studying for the SAT?

By Stanfordman99 (Stanfordman99) on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 11:05 pm: Edit

I studied an SAT practice book the night before and the day of the SAT exam. Contrary to what most people will tell you, last minute studying helps A LOT.

I did most of my extracirriculars for 3 years. In all honesty, you just need to be passionate about ONE thing and express that in your application.

By Amylase (Amylase) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 12:01 am: Edit

SAT 1580
800 800 790 SAT II

did tutoring at school
also did online commerce thing (not very successful though)

By Efilsiertaeht (Efilsiertaeht) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 01:00 am: Edit

SAT 1550- not submitted to stanford (ACT 32 supposedly = 1410-1450)

theatre avg. 20 hr/week 36 wk/yr for four years. (in other words, my life)

piano, voice all through, tap 10-12 (just what I did, but not my core)

By Hiamerica (Hiamerica) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 01:09 am: Edit

dudes,
is it o.k. if my sat is like 1100. do you thing i stad chance at east if i have 17 other awards, ap scores of 5s, research in algorithm(searching, and navigational applications) developent, and autoionizaton constants(i developed a equation that predicts pH of water at different temperatures with a certain margin of error), USACO nominee, etc. i will finish off with 12 aps, rank of 1/876(currently) but somehow i can never get my sat score to go higher? is it a detrimental factor in my admission as i have such a low practice sat score. what do you guys think. should i take the new sat instead in march and send that in, or take the old one now. which is harder. by the way i am a junior in fall 2004. please advise, especially on the low sat thing.

By Hiamerica (Hiamerica) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 01:12 am: Edit

ok. to get a 700 on the verbal part how much should one get right out of 78 questions? and for the math part out of 60?

By Trojan1444 (Trojan1444) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 01:42 am: Edit

Hiamerica, how could you be smart enough to do all that stuff but only get an 1100? I mean from what it sounds like you should have the skills to get a 750-800 on math alone....and if you have all those AP's i would assume you could get a fairly decent verbal score too.


Anyway, to answer the previous question, I spent a lot of time studying for the SAT the first time I took it. I took a Princeton Review course which was a total scam: just buy the book they use and read it. The first time i took it after taking that class i scored a 1460.

Then, about a year later, I took it again without studying at all and got a 1530.

By Behnood15 (Behnood15) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 01:44 am: Edit

Are you guys voracious readers?

By Jlq3d3 (Jlq3d3) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 01:59 am: Edit

reading is one of the most exaggerated tools for doing well on verbal. I never read novels much, and I got a 750 on it. And I barly ever learned vocab from novels. maybe i am just weird

By Samueladams (Samueladams) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 02:50 am: Edit

1560. 800 Bio, 780 Chem, 760 Math 2C, 7-something for writing, but they didn't see that, maybe a 720?.
Unweighted 98.6 or so for GPA, which is a 4.0 I believe on that scale.
EC's, just lots of normal stuff, sports- sailing, football, male cheerleader, acting in school plays, class president 2yrs, student congress 4 yrs, other clubs, destination imagination on a global level for a few years. I did the whole science research/Intel ISEF thing and was very successful, but that came after I got my acceptance. However, they were made well aware of my research on the app. and my mentor wrote an additional reccomendation for me which was cool.

By Trojan1444 (Trojan1444) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 04:13 am: Edit

I agree with Jlg3d3....I never was a very active recreational reader and I scored a 780 on verbal.

It's all about having a large vocabulary, which for me actually means watching a lot of TV

By Cooldude (Cooldude) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 04:18 am: Edit

lol and playing age of Mythology

By Behnood15 (Behnood15) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 12:52 pm: Edit

So how about I just complete the book Word Smart by the Princeton Review?

By Jlq3d3 (Jlq3d3) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 02:11 pm: Edit

Oh yes, in addition to the 750 verbal, I got an 800 on writing. I just studied for it and it worked.

By 80drofnats (80drofnats) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 06:56 pm: Edit

ok
1580, 800 800 800, 4.0
-founded a club that researches/helps farmers
-environmental service club founder
-published research
-all area in 2 sports, not recruited
- some other cheesy •••• that doesn't help

By Hiamerica (Hiamerica) on Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 01:56 am: Edit

ok trojan guess i really exagerated my sat scores as i was really upset. i got a 1320 on the sat. No what do you say about the admission officers look when they see that.

By Paulhomework (Paulhomework) on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 09:20 pm: Edit

wow so almost anyone accepted to stanford has 1550+ sat and 780+ sat ii average?!!!

By Irock1ce (Irock1ce) on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 01:28 am: Edit

Paul- this forum is HELLA self-selective. Dont worry about it that much.

By Nngmm (Nngmm) on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 07:30 pm: Edit

>> i got a 1320 on the sat. No what do you say about the admission officers look when they see that.

Retake it. You can do much better then that, judging by other stuff you did. And proof-read your writing, especially on your app. essays.