Stanford University and SAT Scores

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[TheTice1]

I am a college student at Renssalear Polytechnic Institute and had the same low SAT score worries as I had a 1760 with a 640 on the math section. What you say is true.

At 5:04 you said see "what is in them" and all I am wondering is what will it take for a brother to get inside you?

[MsVictoriaShantrell]

@TheTice1 lol smh

[TheOuroboros21]

@MsVictoriaShantrell And yet you still speak this ghetto?

[scsunsfan]

@TheHarvardMIT that shit amazes me, the fact that we have had to put up with shit for 200 years, and this one little thing that works to our advantage sends you into this outrage that's crazy fuck that shit get a fucking life and stop being so spoiled. We were not even allowed to go to college until like 50 years ago...for Christ sake they had to bring the national guard in to let a little black girl to to school. Cry me a rive and don't call me african America i have never even been to Africa.

[nyuckkyle]

@al2275 no, it isn't. you never saw the rest of her application, so you can't say how strong an applicant she was (Stanford does not weigh SAT scores very heavily compared to more subjective factors; as said before, SAT scores correlate very little with success in college, and Stanford realizes that)

[al2275]

@chinswagger

affirmative action is bs. I wonder how this student would react if they told her, "you only got in this uni to fulfill a target - you got in because of your race." I bet she wouldn't be so arrogant, then.

[al2275]

@nyuckkyle

for someone giving advice about LOW SAT scores (as low as 1800 and still applying to Stanford) and trying to convice us not to "trip" just goes to show that afirmative action is one way to get into Stanford.

[nyuckkyle]

@chinswagger you should look at stanford's admissions FAQ. regarding affirmative action, stanford emphasizes that what's more important than your ethnicity is your background, i.e. the context of your accomplishments (in other words, are you poor or disadvantaged?), crossing ethnic lines. regarding your example of a family of asian immigrants, in reality these students have a huge advantage. being a low-income, immigrant applicant, even if you're asian, is an advantage in stanford admissions.

[nyuckkyle]

@nyuckkyle oops, clicked on the wrong comment to reply to, but y'all get the point :)

[nyuckkyle]

studies have shown that SAT scores correlate very little with success in college. that's why stanford doesn't consider them nearly as much as schools like harvard and yale. instead, stanford requires more essays and weighs factors like teacher recommendations, essays, and extracurricular activities far more heavily.

[nyuckkyle]

@MsVictoriaShantrell this girl is probably debt-free too. unlike at the school you're graduating from, stanford's financial aid policy is loan-free - stanford replaced loans with grants, and if you make under $60k it's free; under $100k it's free tuition; and under $200k it's significantly reduced tuition. don't assume that prestigious school = expensive and puts you in debt. that isn't the case at stanford where 80% of the students are on some form of financial aid.

[nyuckkyle]

@TheOuroboros21 i've interacted, inside and outside of class, with many students who "speak ghetto." in class, they sound just like anyone else. outside, they're more willing to be themselves and "speak ghetto." look up the work of john rickford, a certified-badass professor at stanford, who argues that most black people in the US are actually bilingual, speaking both standard american english (a la ABC news) and african american vernacular english (AAVE).

[chinswagger]

@chinswagger here’s the problem: when you think of asians, you probably think of notoriously competitive groups such as the chinese, japanese, and koreans; but trust me—they’re not the only asians out there. immigrants from poverty-stricken countries such as cambodia need just as much aid as the blacks or the hispanics. i agree that something needs to be done about the performance gap, but i just don’t think that affirmative action is the solution.

[chinswagger]

@caraconcerta i completely understand where you're coming from; you're right, minorities do need to be lifted. my point is, however, that ALL minorities need to benefit from aa. why should asians get the brunt of the negatives when the other minorities enjoy aa’s benefits? i don’t think i’m generalizing. as an asian american myself, i don’t just understand the problems facing asians; i live it every single day.