Stanford

Gladstone

He's also wrong. By far the most difficult aspect is getting actual admission into the university. If you're not an athlete, you will need a minimum 4.0 GPA, 98 percentile SAT, charity work, many of the kids started their own business, school club involvement, etc. Once you're admitted though, there is massive, massive grade inflation and everyone can sort of coast through. I am a Bay Area hipster (lol!) and work with many SU grads. It's the equivalent of Harvard, except there's some modicum of sports and the weather is always nice.

None of the SU grads I know care about football. Why the fuck couldn't we have hired Harbaugh. The fanbase is nonexistent/undeserving.

creepycoug

Gladstone said:

He's also wrong. By far the most difficult aspect is getting actual admission into the university. If you're not an athlete, you will need a minimum 4.0 GPA, 98 percentile SAT, charity work, many of the kids started their own business, school club involvement, etc. Once you're admitted though, there is massive, massive grade inflation and everyone can sort of coast through. I am a Bay Area hipster (lol!) and work with many SU grads. It's the equivalent of Harvard, except there's some modicum of sports and the weather is always nice.

None of the SU grads I know care about football. Why the fuck couldn't we have hired Harbaugh. The fanbase is nonexistent/undeserving.

what can I say? I don't go to school there, and I gave you my only first degree connection with someone who's been there recently (as in now).

Stanford earned the grade inflation rep. years ago - I know a lot of people who went there who are around my age - long, long time ago. And their version tracks with yours. That is, a very hard place to leave with a 3.7 or better GPA, but a very easy place to leave with a 3.0 GPA.

But it's possible that things have changed. It's become more competitive than ever .. that much I do know.

I'm guessing the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's probably doable, though not easy, for a jock to work his/her way through the school. However, based on what I'm told, the "skating through" thing is probably a stretch. Sure, a really really smart kid can pick a major that's not as rigorous as others and have a relatively easy time of it. But I'm talking about the kid who made the athletic recruit cut who would not have otherwise ever, ever been near the Stanford zip code. THAT kid, I think, has his work cut out for him, though I'm sure there is a lot of support there too. God knows that place has resources.

MikeDamone

I like UW in this one.

creepycoug

MikeDamone said:

I like UW in this one.

kris, is that you??

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Here's my Stanford admissions anecdote:

I knew a Pigott who applied to Stanford a couple years ago. If you're unfamiliar, the Pigott's founded PACCAR, and have been sending kids to Stanford since the 1950's. There are buildings and scholarships in the Pigott name down there. The person who applied had a 3.8 GPA at Lakeside and 2200+ SAT's, the only problem being they were white. They didn't get in.

Glad someone in their place will get to be the first from their family to go to college and flunk out midway through their first year!

Liberals everyone.

creepycoug

CollegeDoog said:

Here's my Stanford admissions anecdote:

I knew a Pigott who applied to Stanford a couple years ago. If you're unfamiliar, the Pigott's founded PACCAR, and have been sending kids to Stanford since the 1950's. There are buildings and scholarships in the Pigott name down there. The person who applied had a 3.8 GPA at Lakeside and 2200+ SAT's, the only problem being they were white. They didn't get in.

Glad someone in their place will get to be the first from their family to go to college and flunk out midway through their first year!

Liberals everyone.

yep, well aware of who they are. and that story is not as uncommon as it once might have been. Lots of stories like that floating around now - members of the Coors family not getting into Duke, members of the Firestone family being rejected at Princeton, etc. Now that those schools have endowements in the billions, I guess they're not the whores they used to be for $$, though I'm sure it still talks on the margin.

However, I have to say that a Piggot with a Lakeside 3.8 and 2200+ is a little less believable. I'm guessing that the person who relayed this story to you has bumped up baby Piggott's numbers just a bit. Lakeside sends kids to Stanford in droves - it's part of what makes Lakeside such a powerful prep school.

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creepycoug said:

CollegeDoog said:

Here's my Stanford admissions anecdote:

I knew a Pigott who applied to Stanford a couple years ago. If you're unfamiliar, the Pigott's founded PACCAR, and have been sending kids to Stanford since the 1950's. There are buildings and scholarships in the Pigott name down there. The person who applied had a 3.8 GPA at Lakeside and 2200+ SAT's, the only problem being they were white. They didn't get in.

Glad someone in their place will get to be the first from their family to go to college and flunk out midway through their first year!

Liberals everyone.

yep, well aware of who they are. and that story is not as uncommon as it once might have been. Lots of stories like that floating around now - members of the Coors family not getting into Duke, members of the Firestone family being rejected at Princeton, etc. Now that those schools have endowements in the billions, I guess they're not the whores they used to be for $$, though I'm sure it still talks on the margin.

However, I have to say that a Piggot with a Lakeside 3.8 and 2200+ is a little less believable. I'm guessing that the person who relayed this story to you has bumped up baby Piggott's numbers just a bit. Lakeside sends kids to Stanford in droves - it's part of what makes Lakeside such a powerful prep school.

Said Pigott ended up going to Northwestern. Didn't hear it through the grapevine but straight from the source. In that Lakeside class only 2 ended up going to Stanford and about 8-10 got in, but chose Ivies. Overall it was a pretty poor showing and had Lakeside administrators worried. Now they're taking 60% non-whites whereas before it was only 45%.

Again, liberals everyone.

RaccoonHarry

Robert Kennedy Jr's daughter got into Stanford. I'm pretty sure she's a genius and notoriety had nothing to do with it.

unfrozencaveman

Little Fred Savage (Wonder Years) was in my buddy's frat down there back in the day. His bong rips were beastly - notorious to this day.

creepycoug

CollegeDoog said:

creepycoug said:

CollegeDoog said:

Here's my Stanford admissions anecdote:

I knew a Pigott who applied to Stanford a couple years ago. If you're unfamiliar, the Pigott's founded PACCAR, and have been sending kids to Stanford since the 1950's. There are buildings and scholarships in the Pigott name down there. The person who applied had a 3.8 GPA at Lakeside and 2200+ SAT's, the only problem being they were white. They didn't get in.

Glad someone in their place will get to be the first from their family to go to college and flunk out midway through their first year!

Liberals everyone.

yep, well aware of who they are. and that story is not as uncommon as it once might have been. Lots of stories like that floating around now - members of the Coors family not getting into Duke, members of the Firestone family being rejected at Princeton, etc. Now that those schools have endowements in the billions, I guess they're not the whores they used to be for $$, though I'm sure it still talks on the margin.

However, I have to say that a Piggot with a Lakeside 3.8 and 2200+ is a little less believable. I'm guessing that the person who relayed this story to you has bumped up baby Piggott's numbers just a bit. Lakeside sends kids to Stanford in droves - it's part of what makes Lakeside such a powerful prep school.

Said Pigott ended up going to Northwestern. Didn't hear it through the grapevine but straight from the source. In that Lakeside class only 2 ended up going to Stanford and about 8-10 got in, but chose Ivies. Overall it was a pretty poor showing and had Lakeside administrators worried. Now they're taking 60% non-whites whereas before it was only 45%.

Again, liberals everyone.

wow. though have to say that 8 to 10 admits, given Lakeside's relatively small class size, is not a bad realization rate for one of the top, if not THE top, target for kids at that school. Mercer Island had a bunch admitted too.

one thing I hear that has not changed is the power of legacy - my bud's kid graduated from there this year and is at Berkeley - applied to, and rejected at, Furd. Said all but 2 kids at MI who got in, which was about 5 or 6 total, were legacy.

so I guess not everything has changed. then again, what are the chances of two Stanford people screwing and winding up with an average kid academically?

btw, Northwestern is a soft landing, though it's kind of an extreme reaction weather-wise. I think I'd have looked elsewhere, though NW is a damn good school.