Another lame what are my chances post

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>I'm an Indian-born Canadian citizen living in California. I attend the 9th best school in the State, it's very competitive, we're a feeder school for UC Berkeley, a ton of UCs and we had 5 kids already accepted early to Stanford this year, amongst earlies to Brown, Cornell, 2 to Harvard, etc.</p>

<p>Sat1: M690 V720 Total 1410
Sat2: 2c: 640 Bio: 640 Writing: 800
Unweighted ~3.8 with 6 APs, 2 Honors</p>

<p>AP Bio 4
AP US 5
AP Euro 4
AP Calc AB 3
AP Calc BC TBD
AP Chem TBD</p>

<p>I'm a competitive speaker and debater. Amongst many many many top three finishes at league tournaments in Student Congress, International/National Extemporaneous, Original Advocacy, Parli Debate, Cross Ex Debate I have the following notable accomplishments:</p>

<p>Ranked 3rd in the State of CA in International Extemp last year</p>

<p>Ranked 8th in the State of CA in International Extemp my soph year</p>

<p>National Finalist at the 2004 NFL National Championships in Student Congress (top 20 in the nation)</p>

<p>I have a crapload of finalist finishes at tourneys like Stanford, Cal, i'll be flying to Emory to compete at the Barkley Forum tournament later this month, hopefully I can schedule an on-campus interview. I'm Captain of the Extemp team (the best team in the State), I'm an officer on the speech team. Was cofounder and treasurer of Conservative Club, co-founder and secretary of Indian club, Tech Editor and Assistant EIC of a indepedent student news magazine (much like the economist), I'm a Defense Attorney and Pretrial Attorney on my schools highly competitive mock trial team. I've been a youth group leader in my local temple every week for the past four years. Played volleyball soph year, got a couple of meaningless awards like scholar athlete and mvp.</p>

<p>My slight hook: my parents moved our fam from Canada 4 years ago and they own a few UPS Stores. I've worked at the stores every day for four years, I have like 5000 hours of work experience. Through work, I got in contact with the CEO of a large Indian airline and I've been given an internship for the summer after my senior year.</p>

<p>My essays were decent I guess, I dunno, im a pretty good writer. My recs are impeccable because i've had my eng teacher for two years and my speech coach/teacher also wrote me a letter.</p>

<p>Im not applying for financial aid and im applying undeclared arts and sciences, but my app has a STRONG business/econ theme because of work and the whole "immigrants American Dream thing"</p>

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<p>I would say you have a decent shot. Your EC's and "others" are spectacular, definitely stanford material. Your grades and SAT scores will hurt you, but as you said, your school is extremely competitive, so...
Good luck!</p>

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<p>I will give my evaluation of your chances if you tell me where you got the "9th best school" from? Is there an organization that ranks high schools? Or is it merely something that your counselor / principal told you?</p>

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<p>Here's one site, it's kinda old. This one has it at 11th (miramonte high school)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.greenes.com/html/2001Top50.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.greenes.com/html/2001Top50.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>its improved since then.</p>

<p>Im sorry, I cant find the updated rankings, ill continue looking,</p>

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<p>from what i gather, this is based off of the State Ed. Dept's Academic performance index.</p>

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<p>Have you competed in the TOC? Gotten any bids?</p>

<p>If so, that would be fantastic. Those are hard to come by around here...</p>

<p>Oh, g/l in the BF tournament as well!</p>

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<p>sadly, sadly, no TOC. I did congress at nats. I havent qualified in extemp</p>

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<p>Academics) SAT and SAT IIs are below average, but 3.8 is good (considering how competitive your school is). APs are decent. BTW what's your rank?</p>

<p>ECs) Spectacular! You are dedicated to speech/debate, and your work may become a major hook for you.</p>

<p>I think you have a chance, but unfortunately not a great chance. Your SATs may end up hurting you a lot. However, if it was up to me, I'd say admit. I did a simple calculation, and apparently, you have worked for more than 3 hours daily for the past four years! That's amazing!</p>

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<p>Eh, of all my schools, I think Stanford is my farthest reach, except for maybe UPenn. I'm only applying because A) my parents want me to B) I'm an overachiever at CA high school, I "have" to. Our school doesn't rank. Too many people have 4.0s. A 3.9 doesn't even put you near top 10%. Yeah, 3 hours a day average for the past four years, thats just about right. On the weekends its about 8-9 hours.</p>

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<p>haha, which indian airline offered you an internship?</p>