Chance an Asian male for SCEA 2014

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Stats:
• SAT: CR 630, M 740, W 630 (essay 8); CR 620, M 800, W 690 (essay 8); best composite 2110
• SAT II: Math II 780, Chemistry 620
• GPA: UW 4.0
• Rank: top 1% (1/394)</p>

<p>Subjective
• Essays: Decent in my opinion
• Teacher Recs: I'm sure they wrote great ones
• Counselor Rec: very good
• Hook: music composer (senior project: concert band composition, directing my school's concert band to play it)</p>

<p>Personal
• Location: Hawai'i
• High School Type: so-so public school
• Ethnicity: Full Filipino
• Gender: Male</p>

<p>Other
• Extracurricular:
- Leo Club (9-12)
o Leo Club President, past Leo VP, past Leo Secretary
- Math Team (9-12)
o past Math Team Captain
- Songfest chief class arranger/transcriber (9-12)
- Filipino-American Club (10)
o past Filipino-American Club music director
- Drama Club (11-12)
o cast as lead male in The Sound of Music and as a principal role in Beauty and the Beast
- Jazz band keyboardist (10-12)
- Concert band pianist (11-12)
- Marching Band (9-11)
- Science Bowl (10-12)
o Captain-elect
• Awards: Published poet (local Star Poets contest), 2nd place in state for PTSA Reflections Program in Music Composition</p>

<p>I joined more clubs but I decided against sharing with colleges all the ones I briefly joined .</p>

<p>AP/Honor Courses:
• Freshman: Honors English and Physical Science
• Sophomore: Honors World History, English, Biology
• Junior: Honors English
• Senior: AP Lit, Calculus BC, Physics B
(Our school doesn't offer many Honors/AP classes and has six periods to fit whatever we can in. The only other APs were APUSH and AP Bio; AP Chemistry was cancelled this year because of a lack of interest.)
AP tests: I plan to take AP Lit, Calc BC, Physics B, Music Theory (self-study) and Spanish Language (self-study)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Work:
Through the Leo Club I've done about 200 hours+ of various community service projects.</p>

<p>For what it counts, I tried to get in a competitive summer engineering program at the U of Hawaii but was waitlisted and rejected due to space constraints. I also tried for an audio engineering program but didn’t get in.</p>

<p>**In Junior/Senior year, I helped to entirely rebuild our school website through our school's exclusive first ever web design class</p>

<p>Your time is greatly appreciated :)</p>

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<p>i wouldnt advertise not getting in to summer programs…</p>

<p>my chances:
u have a 7.9 percent chance, just like evry1 else
dont get hung up on people’s opinions of u
its the admissions office’s opinions that matter, not ours</p>

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<p>“u have a 7.9 percent chance, just like evry1 else
dont get hung up on people’s opinions of u
its the admissions office’s opinions that matter, not ours”</p>

<p>You’re saying well-informed prediction is non-existant?</p>

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<p>I would say that a well-informed prediction is non-existent on college confidential, at least for schools like Stanford.</p>

<p>However, @NJDS,</p>

<p>everyone certainly does not have a 7.9 % chance of getting in. does someone with a 2.0 and 1600 composite SAT have the same chances as someone with a 4.0 and a 2400? Obviously note. Also, stanford actually publishes the % of students accepted with 4.0s+, 3.7-3.9…etc. same for SAT ranges.</p>

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<p>“I would say that a well-informed prediction is non-existent on college confidential, at least for schools like Stanford.”</p>

<p>I disagree; I consider myself well-informed as a predictor.</p>

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<p>You’ve definitely made good use of the resources available to you. Your test scores are pretty sloppy, and that’s the main thing that really hurts you. However, you’ve got a lovely variety of ECs and, being from Hawaii, you’re not the typical Stanford candidate.</p>

<p>My guess is you’ll get deferred.</p>

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<p>@silver turtle</p>

<p>you can consider yourself whatever you’d like. :)</p>

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<p>You will be deferred or rejected… im sorry</p>

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<p>^I disagree.</p>

<p>You’re ranked #1 in your school. That’ll help a lot. Colleges want to see how you did with your school’s resources and in the local context. Your scores are fine - nothing spectacular, but they certainly won’t hurt you. I think you’re a match, but Stanford is really unpredictable.</p>

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<p>Nice EC range, good use of your school resources, I think your scores do put you on the lower end of the range though</p>

<p>Is your rank unweighted or weighted gpa? I’m ranked 1 unweighted, but I doubt that matters considering that I know 6 other potential vals in my graduating class</p>

<p>From what I’ve scanned from last year’s decisions, I’m guessing deferred, thought it’s really up to your essays now</p>

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<p>i think you have chance, but with schools like Stanford it’s hard to say more than that. I think for you it really depends on your essays and how much they care about SAT scores. Also, how competitive your school is probably will make a difference.</p>

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<p>“you can consider yourself whatever you’d like.”</p>

<p>If you deny the possibility of informed prediction, you either deny the presence of a pattern or the ability to discern the pattern. Both are absurd.</p>

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<p>@silverturtle: I believe an informed prediction can exist. HOWEVER, I frankly wouldn’t consider any prediction well-informed unless it also takes into account how uncertain admission at Stanford can be. It’d be a well-informed prediction, but by no means a certain prediction.</p>

<p>BigMike is just frustrated by the disparity between the kinds of answers that Stanford chance threads ask for and the kinds of answers we can honestly reply with. I don’t think he means to say that we can’t hope to know anything about our chances so much as he’s trying to say that the most we can hope to know about our chances doesn’t say much.</p>