楼下提到现场对AO提问。问: 对斯坦福录取,上10门AP拿9个A/1个B好, 还是上8门AP拿8门A好?
AO答:We never admitted any student with a B on AP, in fact, not even with A.
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为啥?因为AP只有4分5分,无A, B. ---- Of course!
正确的答案是:Take 10 APs and get 5 on all!
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从这个问答,看出S招生最关心啥(S的很多AO是S毕业生长期浸染于这种文化)
是EC么?NO
是GPA/SAT?ACT么?NO
答案:思维活力/活跃度 (intellectual vitality) - the ability of thinking out-of-box
intellectual vitality也是S多年的一个essay 题目.
一些名牌高中里录取进S的往往不是排名1,2,3的公认学霸(这些多数会被H,M,P招走)。被S录取的经常是排名6,7,8,10但思维特别活跃的孩子。
从S录取来说,AO拿到一个孩子的材料,很多数量指标已经按标准化算好了。轻瞄一眼,大致知道这孩子是个啥样了
当AO看完整份材料,如果印证到这娃与数量指标读后印象很一致(but nothing more),那么很不幸,这娃录取的可能性也许不大了.
"Please surprise me (in a positive way) !" - That is what Stanford AO is looking for.
You have to have something amazingly interesting beyond the numbers. That's it.
(To some extent, that is true for all super elite schools)