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From: jsl@princeton.UUCP (Jong Lee)
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Subject: Re: Stanford admission
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 09:21:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 09:21:39 1985
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> If you've got a 4.0 GPA from a BIG name school and place in the top 0.001%
> on the GRE its no sweat.  HOWEVER, a 3.67 GPA, top 8% on the GRE and a 
> 3.8 GPA in GRAD courses (non-matriculated) at Stanford didn't get me in.:-(

Your aren't kidding here obviously, but just out of curiosity, do 
you mean top 8% on all three parts, or just math, or what?  Where
did you go undergrad (I don't mean to pry, but again, just curious)?
Stanford? Berkeley?  If it's the former, isn't it the practice of most
schools to not accept its own undergrads?  Anyway,
your credentials sound good; maybe recommendation letters did you in.
Or you applied to an especially strong dept.  For example, I got
negged by Cornell's Solid State Devices dept. and got in everywhere 
else; and a friend got burned by Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics group, and
his stats aren't too shabby.

Just putting in my two cents worth.

jsl@princeton

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