一个adcomm member的回忆片断

leapon

Many, many moons ago I sat on the admissions committee at Stanford as a
student rep to the MBA admissions process. I can tell you it was not
all about grades. In fact, once they determined a person had sufficient
academic prep to do the work there, higher grades became much less
important. Emphasis moved to proven leadership skills in all walks of
life - e.g. business, non-profit, club, neighborhood, horse farm, etc.
Tell how you saved an expensive software development from obvious doom
and what uniqueness you brought to the table, etc. They wanted to pick
folks who already were going to be successful in life and then take the
credit. I saw many people with better grades get turned down because
they had no interesting background that the whole class could benefit
from. So I would say don't automatically count yourself out because you
didn't score the highest on GMAT, for example. However, if you are a
"jerk" with high academics, you might be wasting your time applying.
Things may have changed since then, but I get the sense they are about
the same. Good luck! You'll need that too

-- 来自英文论坛

leonchan

thanks

eggie

very good point, any other comments from former adcom? 

katrina52

"They wanted to pick folks who already were going to be successful in life and then take the credit. "

I guess that's true for most schools, they are all looking for the most promising applicants so they can have strong alumni to brag about... But Stanford is a little different, they want not only promising candidates, but also interesting candidates...

yy3806

once they determined a person had sufficient academic prep to do the work there, higher grades became much less important

well, is 710 with a verbal of 67% sufficient(my case)? I guess not

moomoo

以下是引用leapon在2006-7-29 4:30:00的发言：
Many, many moons ago I sat on the admissions committee at Stanford as a
student rep to the MBA admissions process. I can tell you it was not
all about grades. In fact, once they determined a person had sufficient
academic prep to do the work there, higher grades became much less
important. Emphasis moved to proven leadership skills in all walks of
life - e.g. business, non-profit, club, neighborhood, horse farm, etc.
Tell how you saved an expensive software development from obvious doom
and what uniqueness you brought to the table, etc. They wanted to pick
folks who already were going to be successful in life and then take the
credit. I saw many people with better grades get turned down because
they had no interesting background that the whole class could benefit
from. So I would say don't automatically count yourself out because you
didn't score the highest on GMAT, for example. However, if you are a
"jerk" with high academics, you might be wasting your time applying.
Things may have changed since then, but I get the sense they are about
the same. Good luck! You'll need that too

-- 来自英文论坛

Great, at least they don't seem to discriminate "geeks" ....