100% Scholarships for International Students at Stanford University | Road to Success Ep. 07
Summary
TLDRThis video offers a comprehensive guide to applying to Stanford University, covering both undergraduate and graduate programs. It highlights Stanford's competitive 3-4% acceptance rate, application processes, financial aid, and supplemental essays. For undergraduates, it emphasizes the importance of academic performance, extracurricular activities, and recommendation letters. Graduate applicants are reminded of department-specific deadlines and requirements like letters of recommendation and TOEFL scores. The video also touches on financial aid, scholarships, and the Knight-Hennessy scholarship. Lastly, the creator invites viewers to engage by sharing their birthdays in the comments.
Takeaways
- 🎓 Stanford University is a dream school for many students worldwide, offering a vibrant startup culture and being located in Silicon Valley.
- 📈 Stanford has risen to the second position in global university rankings, surpassing MIT.
- 🔻 The acceptance rate at Stanford is extremely competitive, currently at 3-4%.
- 🌐 Stanford takes pride in its diverse international student body, which makes up about 16% of the total student population.
- 💼 For undergraduate applications, students apply through the Common App, with a non-refundable application fee of $90.
- 📄 Undergraduate applicants are required to submit school reports, including a final report that is uploaded by the school counselor only if the student is admitted.
- 📝 Stanford considers academic performance, essays, recommendations, extracurricular activities, and talent when evaluating prospective students.
- 📉 Despite being test-optional, a strong SAT score above 1500 is recommended for a competitive application.
- 📅 There are two key application deadlines: Restrictive Early Action on November 1st and Regular Decision on January 5th.
- ✍️ Stanford requires multiple supplemental essays, totaling up to eight essays including a personal essay and additional long answers.
- 💵 The cost of attendance at Stanford is high, with tuition fees ranging from $60,000 to $70,000 per year before financial aid.
- 💸 Over two-thirds of Stanford students receive some form of financial aid, but international students need to apply through the CSS profile and understand that need-based aid is not guaranteed.
- 🎓 For graduate applications, students apply through Stanford's website with an application fee of $125 and varying deadlines set by each department.
- 📚 Three-year undergraduate degrees are not accepted for graduate programs at Stanford; a combined total of a bachelor's and master's degree is required for eligibility.
- 💼 Graduate students may be eligible for a variety of scholarships, fellowships, and assistantships to help offset the cost of tuition, which is around $62,000.
Q & A
What is the current world ranking of Stanford University?
-Stanford University has moved up to number two in the world, according to the US World Ranking.
What is the acceptance rate for Stanford University?
-Stanford University is accepting around 3 to 4 percent of applicants, which is one of the lowest acceptance rates.
What percentage of Stanford's student body is international?
-Stanford is home to about 16% international students, showcasing its diverse student population.
How much is the application fee for undergraduate studies at Stanford?
-The application fee for undergraduate studies at Stanford is $90.
What are the required documents for undergraduate applications at Stanford?
-Required documents include the school report, mid-year report, and final report, all of which are managed by the school counselor.
What is the policy on standardized testing for Stanford University applications?
-Stanford has a test-optional policy, meaning standardized test scores are not mandatory for application.
What are the two deadlines for applying to Stanford University?
-There is a restrictive early action deadline for November 1st and a regular decision deadline for January 5th.
How many supplemental essays does Stanford University require for undergraduate applications?
-Stanford University requires a total of eight essays, including five supplemental essays and three longer and more personal essays.
What is the approximate tuition fee for studying at Stanford University?
-The tuition fee is roughly between $60,000 to $70,000 per year before any financial aid.
How does Stanford University handle financial aid for international students?
-Stanford is need-aware, meaning that requesting financial aid may affect the admission decision. International students must fill out the CSS profile to apply for need-based aid.
What is the Knight Henley Scholarship at Stanford University?
-The Knight Henley Scholarship is a competitive scholarship for graduate students that covers up to three years of full funding.
Outlines
🎓 Stanford University Overview and Admissions
This paragraph introduces the video's focus on Stanford University, a top-choice for students worldwide due to its location in Silicon Valley and its strong startup culture. The video will cover both undergraduate and graduate applications. Stanford's ranking has risen to number two globally, surpassing MIT, with an acceptance rate of only 3-4%, indicating increased competitiveness. The university boasts a diverse international student body, with 16% of the total population. The Common App is used for undergraduate applications, with a $90 fee. Required documents include school reports and recommendations handled by school counselors. The video suggests that for specific degree applications, one teacher recommendation should align with the intended major. Stanford has a test-optional policy, emphasizing the importance of school GPA, essays, and extracurricular activities in admissions decisions.
📅 Application Deadlines and Essay Tips
The paragraph discusses Stanford's application deadlines: a restrictive early action deadline on November 1st and a regular decision deadline on January 5th. There are also transfer deadlines on March 15th. The video then addresses the dreaded supplemental essays, of which there are five mandatory and one optional, focusing on societal challenges, summer activities, historical moments, extracurriculars, and personal traits. The presenter advises filling out optional essays to stand out. There's also a mention of a personal essay through the Common App and three additional, more extensive essays, totaling eight essays to be written. The video includes a sponsored segment on Dossier perfumes and discusses Stanford's tuition fees, financial aid availability, and the CSS profile for need-based aid applications.
📚 Graduate Application Process and Scholarships
This paragraph shifts focus to graduate applications, which are processed through Stanford's website with a $125 application fee and varying deadlines depending on the department. The video clarifies that three-year undergraduate degrees are not accepted for graduate programs but a combination of a three-year degree and a two-year master's degree is acceptable. Applicants need three letters of recommendation, and while the GRE is optional, TOEFL is required. There's a discussion on minimum score requirements for different programs and the importance of writing supplements like the statement of purpose. The video also mentions graduate tuition fees and the availability of scholarships and fellowships, including the highly competitive Knight Henley Scholarship, which covers full funding for up to three years and has a separate application process.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Stanford University
💡Silicon Valley
💡Acceptance rate
💡Common App
💡Recommendation letters
💡Test-optional policy
💡Supplemental essays
💡Financial aid
💡Graduate programs
💡Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program
Highlights
Stanford University is a dream university for many students worldwide.
Stanford's ranking has moved up to number two in the world.
The acceptance rate at Stanford is around 3 to 4 percent, indicating high competitiveness.
Stanford is located in Silicon Valley, offering a rich startup culture and technological innovation.
International students make up about 16% of Stanford's student body.
The Common App is used for undergraduate applications with a $90 application fee.
School reports and counselor recommendations are required for application.
Two teacher evaluations focusing on academic capabilities are necessary.
Standardized testing is optional for Stanford applications.
Academic performance, essays, and extracurricular activities are key factors in admissions.
SAT scores above 1500 are considered competitive.
Over 85% of admitted students have a GPA above 3.75.
Stanford has two application deadlines: Restrictive Early Action on November 1st and Regular Decision on January 5th.
Stanford requires five supplemental essays as part of the application process.
The cost of attending Stanford is around $60,000 to $70,000 per year before financial aid.
More than two-thirds of Stanford students receive financial aid.
International students must fill out the CSS profile to apply for need-based financial aid.
Graduate students apply through the Stanford website with a $125 application fee.
Three-year undergraduate degrees are not accepted for graduate programs at Stanford.
GRE scores are optional for graduate applications.
TOEFL is required for international graduate applicants with no waivers.
Graduate tuition is around $62,000, but can be offset with scholarships and assistantships.
The Knight Hennessy Scholarship covers up to three years of full funding for graduate students.
Transcripts
all right guys welcome back to a brand
new video in this week we are tackling
Stanford University it is the dream
University for so many students whether
you are in the US or an international
student just to be in California be
around that startup culture whether
you're trying to you know study business
international relations science Computer
Engineering whatever degree it may be
Stanford is probably a dream for almost
every single student and for some pretty
good reasons it is home in the Silicon
Valley where you know it's great
financial stability people like
literally want to go there to work in
that entire startup culture and be
around some of the most Innovative and
cuttingedge Technologies in their field
so in this video we are going to look at
the undergraduate as well as The
Graduate applications for Stanford
University and just taking a look at the
ranking itself Stanford has actually
moved up to number two in the world it
crossed MIT this year to become the
second most popular and the best
university as reported by the US World
Ranking now in general if you look at
the acceptance rate Stanford is
accepting around 3 to 4 percentage which
is one of the lowest that I've ever seen
like I know a few years ago Stanford was
up in like maybe the 8 to 9 percentage
acceptance rate but this year 3 to four
that is an all-time low so more students
are applying it's getting really
competitive to get in and talking about
their diverse international student
population it is home to about 16% of
its overall potion being International
students so they are very proud to admit
International students from various
countries and you know this is a great
destination to learn from some of the
best Minds in the world so talking about
the undergraduate applications we are
looking at applying through the Common
App portal now Stanford is no different
than the other colleges you will find
Stanford in the college drop-down list
of common app and it will cost you $90
which is a little bit on the higher side
as the application fee to apply to
Stanford now let's look at the require
reement so typically they ask for the
school report media report and final
report which are all required documents
but but as a student this is not
something that you have to submit all of
these documents are um taken care of by
your school counselor the final year
report is something that the school
counselor will only upload if you get
admitted and after you finished the
final exams next year this isn't
something that you need right now
because I know it's a common questions
that students that are currently in
grade 12 ask next you have the counselor
as well as this um recommendation
letters uh so this includes the
counselor recommendation that talks
about the students character personality
and just traits overall as you know
being a responsible citizen toward
society and then you have two teacher
evaluations which are more like teacher
recommendation letters that talk about
your capability and aptitude towards
specific subjects now my recommendation
towards this would be that if you're
applying for a specific degree maybe one
of the teacher recommendations can be
towards that and then the second
recommendation can be something else so
let's say for example you're applying
for computer science you can have a
computer science teacher write a
recommendation and then maybe like a a
math or a physics teacher so something
along that those lines that's like a
sweet spot to hit um there are one
optional evaluations that you can submit
again it's optional so it's up to you if
you have like a coach um a mentor or
like a tution teacher they can submit an
evaluation for you and the standardized
testing policy is test optional for
Stanford it was never you know mandatory
to begin with and that continues to
remain so since Stanford is test
optional what exactly do they look for
in a student profile when they are
looking at offering an admission letter
to students basically if we look at the
common data set which is a report that
Stanford publishes each year for its
previous year we can see that
academically your school GPA your um
essays your recommendations all are very
very important and non-academically they
look at your extracurricular abilities
your ability and talent and personality
traits so overall the ability for you to
write your essays how well you explain
and portray your activities your
extracurricular activities as well as
how well your academic intellectual
skills are so school grades if you've
written standardized test how well
you've done in that um if you written AP
exams how well you've done in that all
of this is what Stanford looks for in an
ideal candidate now if you are someone
who is considering writing the SAT even
even though it's test optional you can
see in this slide that this is usually
where the students kind of like land
roughly in my opinion it's always a good
idea to stay above 1,500 for the SAT um
that is considered to be in a good spot
but feel free to pause this slide to
kind of take a look at these numbers um
next up we look at the school GPA we can
clearly see that I would say more than
85% of the students had a GPA of above
3.75 so looking at academics Stanford
does keep that at high priority if
you're someone you know who has received
like an 80 or a 70% in high school it
may be a good idea to show your academic
ability somewhere else like a
standardized test score or the AP exam
so with all of this you are looking at
two deadlines that Stanford has there is
a restrictive early action deadline for
November 1st and there is a regular
decision deadline for January 5th now
there are transfer deadlines for March
15th each year where even International
students first and second year can apply
to transfer to Stanford now I know that
um a lot of students kind of have a
doubt on what these deadlines mean so
I've written like advantages and
disadvantages on this slide here uh to
show you guys that um now the coming to
the part that that all of the students
dread the supplemental essays Stanford
University has some of the most number
of supplemental essays that they ask 1 2
3 four five there these are like the
five that you have to have um my number
one tip is if there is a supplemental
essay that's optional fill that out if
you really want to get into Stanford
show Stanford that you are willing to
take these additional steps to stand out
now what is the most significant
challenge that Society faces today how
did you spend the last two summers
historical moments um one of your
extracurricular activities and five
things about you all of these hints are
kind of like jotted down on this table
here so you guys can go through that but
other than these five essays you are
also looking at writing one personal
essay that's going to be a common app
essay that goes along with your
application and if you guys thought that
that's it nope we have three more essays
that are even longer and lenier so
that's a total of like eight essays now
the one that kind of stands out to me
the most is um write a letter to your
future roommate that reveals something
about yourself now obviously when you
are you know thinking about your future
roommate the first thing that probably
comes to your mind is you do not want to
be stinking up your dorm room or you
know wherever you're going around campus
so you always need to carry around your
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for a discount so with all of this
rigorous application requirements that
Stanford has Stanford isn't cheap to
study at we are looking at roughly $60
to
$70,000 per year as tution fee before
any financial aid which is again on the
higher side but the quality of education
does kind of like justify this return on
investment now with this said I also
want to kind of talk a little bit about
the financial aid Stanford specifically
mentions that more than two-thirds of
their students do receive Aid in some
way or another but with that said
there's they also say that the request
for financial aid by International
students will be on like a need two
bases so they can maybe say yes to you
they can maybe say no to you there's no
guarantee that you'll receive this need
base Aid however if you want to apply
for the need-based aid you have to fill
out the CSS profile so remember that
Stanford is need aware which means that
if you ask for Aid it will you know
carry an effect on whether they even
admit you as a student or not but if you
want Aid make sure you submit your CSS
profile along with your um Common App
Stanford application however since
they've mentioned that two thir of their
students do get this Aid if you are one
among the fortunate students to actually
get this Aid in Stanford University
everything will be covered four years of
tution fee living expenses food um your
maybe flight tickets for an yearly visit
to your home country everything is
covered you may just need to pay ,000 to
$2,000 in expenses here and there like
Health insures and whatnot but Stanford
will cover you 100% if you do get this
need-based Aid now I know that a lot of
students have requested for step-by-step
walkthroughs of how to apply to the CSS
profile because this CSS profile is the
sole like application that determines
what and how much amount of Aid you will
get not just in Stanford but any other
university that you apply to so if you
guys are interested the walkthr is a
part of the IV 101 course it's not just
this walkthr there is a step-by-step
process of how to apply to colleges
building a college list what you need to
do to um make sure you stand out a 10
chapter module on everything you need as
an international student applying to the
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description below as well let's move on
to the graduate students now graduate
students will apply through the Stanford
website portal now there's no common
application for grad students and this
is usually how it's always been you guys
are looking at a hefty application fee
of
$125 with deadlines ranging from
November to March of 2024 the reason why
the deadlines vary is that each
department releases its own application
deadline so depending on what department
you're applying for take a look at those
deadlines respectively now with that
said let's look at the documents and
requirements first and foremost thing
Stanford has made it very very clear
that threeyear undergraduate degrees are
not accepted they have specifically
given India as an example here when they
talk about this if you've done a
three-year degree like a BCA degree for
example you cannot apply to Stanford's
graduate program how however what you
can do is with the three-year degree if
you do maybe like a 2-year master's
degree with those two degrees combined
then you can apply for a Stanford
Graduate program so remember this apart
from that you will need three letters of
recommendation uh GRE is optional uh
TOEFL is required there are absolutely
no waivers that they mention and just to
give you an example these are the
minimum scores required for different
programs you there are two pieces of
like writing supplements the statement
of purpose that The Graduate School ask
asks for so you guys can go through
these and my suggestion would be to
start preparing as early as possible um
there is an optional writing supplement
you know feel free to go through that
and like I said make sure you work on
these and submit these to show that
you're willing to stand out as well um
graduate students are looking at a
tution fee of roughly
$62,000 which can kind of be offsetted
with a variety of graduate scholarships
and fellowships ranging from research
assistant positions teaching
assistantships as well as Tyle for PhD
students now it's important to note that
there is a night Hensley scholarship
which is given to a certain number of
students there is a deadline of October
11th to apply for this and there is a
separate application the night Henley
scholarship is one of the most
competitive scholarships for graduate
students that covers up to three years
of full funding so again if you get the
scholarship Stanford will cover
everything since it has a separate
application make sure you guys spend
time and work on that um with sufficient
effort so that's all that I had for this
video and you guys didn't think that I
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