<p>SAT I score: 1850 (I can't remember which, but math was high and my writing score sucked)</p>
<p>HS GPA: 4.0
(I was in homeschool for most of my high school time, and graduated with recommendation letters from the program's principal.)</p>
<p>College GPA: 3.27
(Weighted? I'm not even sure what to weight! Hahah)</p>
<p>ECs:
* ACM ICPC (programming contest) from a bit over a year ago.. we placed at #67 or something low like that but were the only community college (and no, we did not place last in our regional lol).
* college's ACM club vice president (although I'm not sure whether it's worth mentioning or not since it wasn't all that official) - we broke up the group that year due to lack of interest :(
* web design business (of sorts... more for fun than anything else)</p>
<p>I currently attend Diablo Valley College and want to transfer out next year into Computer Science or Electrical Engineering depending on how it's called. One thing I noticed when reading the information for Stanford, is when considering transfer students they like people who don't just go into prerequisites for their subject head first and ignore everything else. </p>
<p>I can't say I've taken the most unique classes or anything, but I did try to spice up my transcript! There are some odd things like architecture classes, various art/architecture history classes, astronomy, psychology, but I'm not sure they'd classify as ODD ENOUGH for Stanford heheh. </p>
<p>The SAT? Oh the SAT! It was taken blindly (I didn't even know what an SAT looked like until the night before and didn't really care). From what I've heard I could improve that score drastically had I studied geometry and read a bit more, but I don't really think I want to. If all else, I'm willing to take the SAT subject tests to prove myself a bit better. </p>
<p>The GPA used to be better, taking a 5 unit Chemistry class with a new professor (to teaching) ruined it pretty substantially; I along with the vast majority of the passing students received a C. (There were 2 girls that almost never attended labs that got As, I call shenanigans!) Calculus has been a varied success, with a C and a B (my 2nd class a B! Yay!) - I'm only proud of that for getting 93s on tests where everyone else did miserably lol. Anyway, I have yet to receive a recommendation from a Physics or Math teacher (although I intend to shortly), but I have from an .. English professor! How about that?! </p>
<p>With all of that said, watch out 2200 SAT students with 4.5 GPAs and ECs that include walking on water, I am applying! lol. I wanna hear about how I'll be rejected. :) </p>
<p>Now.. wanna hear why I am going to apply to Stanford? I love it; the campus is beautiful, the atmosphere seems exceptionally pleasant, and despite the posts I've seen here from concerned hyper-overachievers, I just don't see that kind of people on campus. I like the attitude too, encouraging a bit of randomness instead of just being a pin-head engineer that does nothing but worry about their math grades (although, I usually come out just fine with those.) </p>
<p>That evil GPA thing? I think I could do better, as it is I live at home with my mother and two brothers; the closest in age is autistic like the Rain Man, and the other? Fairly normal, but I think... I THINK.. he's got Aspergers, but I am not a psychologist. -_- Studying around them can prove to be quite the challenge at times. Damn, in the spring I had to drop my Physics class because I was beginning to go insane from trying to make things work. </p>
<p>I try to hang around the library more, and.. that sometimes works... </p>
<p>Such as life huh? :(</p>
I thought it was odd that almost nobody appears to transfer from a CCC, but some CCCs are pretty decent. I’d like to do some more ECs but right now I’m not so sure (I have 2 physics classes coming up I’d like to get good grades in). </p>