Stanford's Detailed Screening Process

[surfdevl02]

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Hello All-
Just read something today that might peak your curiosity as to how a school, in this case Stanford, evaluates applicants pre- and post-secondary. I think it's an internal report that wasn't supposed to get out but some slick SDNer got a hold of it and posted the link yesterday. It's a really interesting read to see how they screen us and the factors they truly consider important. Notice how your ECs and overall GPA have no bearing whatsoever in whether you get picked for a secondary. Notice also on page 5 of where Stanford considers its best applicants come from:

http://www.med.stanford.edu/senate/...ns Report.pdf

Surfdevl02

 

[*fatmike*]

Check the link, I think it is broken...try posting the doc on the message board.

 

[katem]

i'd love to read it, but for some reason the link isn't working! any idea why?
katem

 

[Cerberus]

Originally posted by surfdevl02
Hello All-
Just read something today that might peak your curiosity as to how a school, in this case Stanford, evaluates applicants pre- and post-secondary. I think it's an internal report that wasn't supposed to get out but some slick SDNer got a hold of it and posted the link yesterday. It's a really interesting read to see how they screen us and the factors they truly consider important. Notice how your ECs and overall GPA have no bearing whatsoever in whether you get picked for a secondary. Notice also on page 5 of where Stanford considers its best applicants come from:

http://www.med.stanford.edu/senate/...ns Report.pdf

Surfdevl02

You need to repost the link.

 

[Cerberus]

hmm all the links from the http://www.med.stanford.edu/senate/
main page are dead but manually entering the URL to the minutes page brought me here
http://www-med.stanford.edu/senate/01-02/ and then a little searching got me this:

http://www-med.stanford.edu/senate/01-02/01-11-14 Att B1 Admissions Report.pdf

Which is actually pretty boring....

 

[xaelia]

Here you go...the link is screwy with so many spaces in it.

http://www-med.stanford.edu/senate/01-02/01-11-14%20Att%20B1%20Admissions%20Report.pdf

It really does have a lot of fascinating (if difficult to read) statistics at the end. The most particularly interesting statistics were those of the "multiple" acceptances to Stanford, UCSF, and Harvard and how those lucky bastards 😉 made their choices.

 

[tBw]

no, no, this is the link

http://www.halfmoon.org/bul.html

as you can see, it outlines the admission criteria quite nicely

 

[Blitzkrieg]

we posted that document a few months ago.. 😛