chance at stanford~

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<p>I have just come to America a few months ago, as a junior, this is the first time that i'm learning in a english-based school!
I'm a Chinese, US perminant resident in CA.
My statistics: foreign grade: top 4 out of 70
my junior year first semester grade 4.6667(weighted) 4.0(unweighted)
i'm now taking, ap physics c, ap chemistry, ap calculus ab, ap us history(extremely hard for me), visual art, english one.
my sat score is :math 790, writing 660, reading 550
my sat 2 score is: math2 800, chemistry 800, physics 800, (do i need to take chinese, is that so pretentious for Chinese to take chinese sat2?)</p>

<p>i have so limited ECs, because in my former school, we have a school scheduel of 7:30 am to 9:40 pm, and went home every 2 weeks, so we have almost no chance to participate in any thing rather than classes.
i'm a national level 2 badminton athlete in china, 4 years training.
i'm one of the inventors of some inventional patents.
thanks so much for any respond!</p>

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<p>Hi, and welcome to California. </p>

<p>I'd say just keep it cool with those SATII tests. Impressive.</p>

<p>Try to pull up those reading and writing grades a little more. Dunno what to say about ECs. Try to start working on them right now.</p>

<p>Question: Is that the normal school schedule? That's really tight schedule man. </p>

<p>badminton thing looks good. i really can't say if you're a match or not, i mean it's Stanford. </p>

<p>do you have any passions? tell me about the inventional patents thing.</p>

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<p>Retake SAT I next fall - your English scores will go up, and it is very important. It is not pretentious to take SAT II in your native language - everybody does it. You don't need another SAT II, but I think you should maybe take the Chinese just to have your proficiency "registered". It will satisfy your foreign language requirement automatically.</p>

<p>No one can predict your chances at Stanford, but badminton and patents will certainly help your chances.</p>

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<p>I predict a reject. Trust my judgement</p>

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<p>DON'T trust anyone's judgement. Sure, 88% are rejected, but you'll never know unless you apply.</p>

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<p>you mean 80% rejected?</p>

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<p>Goldfish, 80% is only EA</p>

<p>those are still okay sat scores given the fact that you just moved. did you take english at your old school?</p>

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<p>i learned English in my former school, but just as a foreign language.
I got 590(not high) on TOEFL, UC requires 550.</p>

<pre><code>and guys, I got another question now ,would you mind you help me?
how important the PE grade is? I got a B in 10th grade on PE, will it hurt much? will college value the PE more than the other classes?
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<p>thanks for any response~</p>

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<p>i doubt that a B in PE will really harm your application. AP Courses are seen in a much greater light. </p>

<p>You should definitely explain somewhere (maybe the essays) the difficult schedule that your school ran on--it'd help the admissions officers with the lack of ec's.</p>

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<p>Go ahead and take the Chinese SATII. The majority of students who take it are Chinese and most of them score 800s (go figure...). In fact, a guy at my school (white, learned Chinese as a second language) took it a couple years ago and scored a 780, but it was still just a 15th percentile. The test is geared towards native speakers, which is part of the reason I decided not to take the test myself.</p>

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<p>Stanford recalculates GPA using only academic unweighted grades. Your PE grade won't matter at all.</p>

<p>You do need to improve your English scores on SAT though.</p>