[Stymie]

Don't have any more angst over that C in Math 43, Publius.  I got the same grade/same 1st Frosh 1/4 and lived to tell the tale.  Of course, then (1964) anybody who got a 5 AP score got a pass on all of Math 41-43 and only the dummies like me that got a 3 had to take Math 43.  Outside of "The Philosphy of Language" it was the hardest course I took in my 4 years on the Farm, and the only reason I got a C was because the Prof. (or his assistant) carried the "1" one too many times and scored my paper as 67 rather than the 57 points that I actually accumulated in the final exam.  Go figure....

As to admissions, and as one who interviews 5-10 kids every year for Stanford, I think that the elite Universities have reached a tipping point vis a vis the number of applications, where they are probably going to have to move to a two-step process which separates the wheat from the chaff far earlier in the process (December?) and then focuses on the 15-20,000 remaining applicants who have a real chance to be admitted (including elite athletes, musicians, poets, etc.).

Finally, as to the issue of international applicants, they are not going to go away, particularly if Stanford wants to be a global force in education (which they very much do, and should do).  As high as the bar is now at LSJU, once the % of international students rises aboe 10%, to 15-20% as it should, the bar will take a quantum leap, just as it has over the past 5-10 years.

Do not be afraid.

Stymie

[Stymie]

Don't have any more angst over that C in Math 43, Publius.  I got the same grade/same 1st Frosh 1/4 and lived to tell the tale.  Of course, then (1964) anybody who got a 5 AP score got a pass on all of Math 41-43 and only the dummies like me that got a 3 had to take Math 43.  Outside of "The Philosphy of Language" it was the hardest course I took in my 4 years on the Farm, and the only reason I got a C was because the Prof. (or his assistant) carried the "1" one too many times and scored my paper as 67 rather than the 57 points that I actually accumulated in the final exam.  Go figure....

As to admissions, and as one who interviews 5-10 kids every year for Stanford, I think that the elite Universities have reached a tipping point vis a vis the number of applications, where they are probably going to have to move to a two-step process which separates the wheat from the chaff far earlier in the process (December?) and then focuses on the 15-20,000 remaining applicants who have a real chance to be admitted (including elite athletes, musicians, poets, etc.).

Finally, as to the issue of international applicants, they are not going to go away, particularly if Stanford wants to be a global force in education (which they very much do, and should do).  As high as the bar is now at LSJU, once the % of international students rises aboe 10%, to 15-20% as it should, the bar will take a quantum leap, just as it has over the past 5-10 years.

Do not be afraid.

Stymie