Chance a really weird applicant?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>im a musician, and im trying out for 7 music conservatories, BUT some part of me prompted me to apply for stanford, since it had been my dream school before i decided to pursue music. </p>

<p>i dont have strong grades in school at all; i took all honors and APs but i wouldnt go to class so i could practice and would come in only to take tests. i'd study in my own free time. </p>

<p>STATS:
GPA: 3.91 W, 3.39 UW. (ew)
SAT composite:2140
AP distinguished scholar
5s on ap music theory and ap language
4 in calc ab
3s in ap euro and apush :(
i went to a arts boarding school, north carolina school of the arts, for freshmen year
i went to my public high school for the next two years
and now im home schooled senior year. so i dont have a class rank.</p>

<p>HOWEVER, i do feel that im a talented musician. i have a strong artistic resume in my opinion, which includes things for violin, composition, and piano. im doing a live audition for violin and i sent in an art supplement with tracks of two of my latest compositions:</p>

<p>here are youtube links to one of them:
YouTube</a> - Orisinal</p>

<p>i also feel like my essays werent run of the mill.
and i also feel like an applicant with a situation and background like me isnt really expected at stanford, and i wonder if that will help me or hurt me.</p>

<p>i understand that stanford takes AMAZING people and the most qualified people i know have been rejected EA but i also spent a week at stanford and literally lived in the dorms with the students for 5 days, and they assure me that my violin playing will get me into stanford (after a week of having to hear me practice in the dorms). they say that stanford truly likes angular people, and grades arent everything, which is what ive started seeing reading the threads on college confidential.</p>

<p>does anyone have any advice/opinion?
SORRY for the long post!! and good luck to everyone!!</p>

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<p>Your race is relevant, so it would be helpful if you shared it.</p>

<p>Your GPA is well below the typical acceptee’s.</p>

<p>(Also note that links to YouTube are prohibited.)</p>

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<p>silverturtle, a 3.39UW is extremely low even for hooked applicants. I had a 3.84 and that was even on the low end.</p>

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<p>why the hell do you want to go to stanford?</p>

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<p>I like the music a lot(ps is that the Orisinal Winter Bells game w/ the rabbit??). If you send in a music supplement you have an excellent chance</p>

<p>Edit: I’d love having someone like you as a roommate b/c i love when people practice music lol</p>

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<p>PS. I’m a creep & I watched your youtube videos b/c I was bored.
2 people have died playing Chubby Bunny…I find that really weird & sad</p>

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<p>I’m aware.</p>

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<p>im chinese =_=
aw thanks xAAAx! um kind of i just named it after the website but its a long story why :stuck_out_tongue:
well, i hope you guys dont take me wrong. i dont think that i have a chance, im aware of the incredible standards of stanford…im just curious of how heavily extracurriculars are weighted for an applicant who was striving for something unacademic, not just specifically for me anymore but just in general for stanford. (i regret posting on college confidential, especially in the stanford thread…i feel very unworthy)</p>

<p>its just that im flying all the way out to california just to play this audition for a school that i have no chance of getting into academically…and i was just curious if the trouble was worth it. not that i can cancel my audition or something…but i havent quite met an applicant with my situation and i just wanted to know =/ im sorry if i am blatantly underqualified and i probably shouldnt have posted. haha.</p>

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<p>Can’t hurt to try out, or to post here. You never know. Go for it, and good luck.</p>