*GPA is a 4.5 (weighted)
*Top 10% of my class
*I am trilingual (English, Spanish, Chinese)
*I will have taken 7 years of Chinese. (6th to 12th grade)
*I will have taken four years of debate (including AP Seminar and AP Capstone)
*8 AP Classes
*Clubs include: 4 years debate club, 4 years Model UN Club, and 3 years Chinese Club
*Sports include 4 years of varsity basketball
*I am a Hispanic female
Sorry if it seems like I’m bragging, I’m simply trying to list off information. If you have any advice on how I could increase my chances of getting into Stanford University or into other reputable universities it would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance!
Advice for applying to Ivies/Top Privates:
- Have realistic expectations. For every one person those schools admit, 9 or more equally qualified candidates get axed
- Leadership in your clubs will help
- Get those dank teacher recommendations
- Write good essays and package yourself
- Get a good set of SAT/ACT scores. 32-33 is enough to put you into the ‘average’ category, 34+ will put you in the top quartile
- S̶a̶c̶r̶i̶f̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶s̶t̶-̶b̶o̶r̶n̶ ̶c̶h̶i̶l̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶d̶m̶i̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶s̶ Hope for the best
It’s a crapshoot, for most. Unless you cured cancer, won IChO medals and was a Siemens finalist, you can’t really assure acceptances to ivies/HYPSM. Best advice to get into those schools if that’s what you’re set on is to apply to a lot of them. But what you can do is make sure your recs are good, your essays reflect yourself well, and you get high standardized test scores- 34-35+ on the ACT which is upper 1500s on the SAT.