First, carefully coach your parents to be smart about buying you into Stanford. Just a joke, but chances are that most applicants will not come from families capable of donating a building or a large sum of money. Applicants so well-endowed will find safe strategies for getting in anyway, as most of them have in the past. The
recent brouhaha has been going on for some time.
Typically, nearly 50,000 apply and 2,000 are admitted. In the class of 2022, 17.5% were first generation college attendees and 11.4% were international.
In the latest class with 4.0 being straight A, the
average grade of an admitted freshman was 4.18. The
average SAT was 1520 out of 1600. However, if you scored a perfect 800 in either the math or reading test, there is only an 8% chance you were admitted. 28% of those admitted scored 800 in one of them.
But you don't need to have those above credentials to get admitted. It would help if you were an all-star athlete or Nobel Prize winner. This was a long time ago, but I remember the Stanford football coach addressing the freshman class when I was there, and he proudly indicated that every player he recruited who qualified for Stanford decided to come...all two of them.
For most, you apply because your grades and SAT scores are stellar. That's a given. Thus, the key for
admission to Stanford is mostly based on non-academic factors. What stands out is a special ability, achievement or story, especially where you show promise for making a significant and positive impact on the world. A spiked talent in a desirable area can make that crucial difference. Stanford does, for good reasons, take chances on outliers.
It's possible that
pumpkin pies served as that key decision-hunch for me. A bit of a stretch for the selection committee to be so clairvoyant as to thus visualize that I would someday dedicate my life to finding Simple Solutions for Planet Earth and Humanity through the Blue Revolution and Hydrogen Economy. But, whatever, thank you Stanford. And, who knows, perhaps a century from now, maybe I'll have fulfilled that desired goal of being a positive difference-maker.
Typically, nearly 50,000 apply and 2,000 are admitted. In the class of 2022, 17.5% were first generation college attendees and 11.4% were international.
In the latest class with 4.0 being straight A, the average grade of an admitted freshman was 4.18. The average SAT was 1520 out of 1600. However, if you scored a perfect 800 in either the math or reading test, there is only an 8% chance you were admitted. 28% of those admitted scored 800 in one of them.
But you don't need to have those above credentials to get admitted. It would help if you were an all-star athlete or Nobel Prize winner. This was a long time ago, but I remember the Stanford football coach addressing the freshman class when I was there, and he proudly indicated that every player he recruited who qualified for Stanford decided to come...all two of them.
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