Chance for Stanford EA?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I’m currently a Junior Asian in Texas trying to decide whether to apply early to Stanford or wait it out for regular admissions.</p>

<p>SAT I: 1510 (780M, 730V) Will try to improve in Janurary. Taking the new SAT I sometime later.
Will take SAT IIs next spring.</p>

<p>GPA: Currently 4.0 unweighted, 4.35-4.4 weighted (5.0 scale AP=5, Honors=4.5) would be 4.45 without freshman year.</p>

<p>AP Test Scores: 5 AP World History, 5 AP Human Geography. Will be taking 3 more this year and 7 more next year.</p>

<p>Rank: 6th-8th out of 1300 at a very competitive public school.</p>

<p>Schedual:</p>

<p>Currently in the IB program</p>

<p>Sophmore- 2 APs, 5 Honors, 1 Regulars</p>

<p>Junior- 3 AP/IBs, 4 Honors</p>

<p>Senior (Projected)- 7 AP/IBs, 1 Honors</p>

<p>Extracurriculars-</p>

<p>Played String Bass for 6 years, all region bassist 5 years, all area (east Texas) bassist 3 years. Numerous solo awards. Principal bassist in community orchestra for a year. VP of school orchestra ( currently ranked best in the nation ) junior year, Technology Officer of orchestra sophmore year.</p>

<p>NHS 3 years, was secretary sophmore year. 80 hours service.</p>

<p>IB CAS hours- 50-60 so far. Will have around 100 hours end of this year.</p>

<p>FBLA sophmore and junior year, placed 5th in state in 10th. Awaiting competition this year.</p>

<p>French Club-11th, National French Competition 3rd place in state, 4th nationally. Awaiting Texas French Symposium this year.</p>

<p>Science Fair-10th, advanced to regionals.</p>

<p>Others: Math Club-11th, Habitat for Humanity-11th, IBSSA-11th</p>

<p>Work Experience: Summer internship automating direct marketing for credit unions and testing out new software. 8 hours a day, 2 months. More work helping credit unions in the spring.</p>

<p>Questions:</p>

<li>What are my chances applying EA to Stanford?</li>
<li>Should I wait to have 7 more AP/IBs show up on my transcript, a few more leadership positions ( seniority rule for many officer positions ), and possibly a chance at state orchestra to bolster my application or apply early and risk denial?</li>
<li>I know theres no actual quota by highschools but at least 3 other juniors (with better grades and extracurriculars) are applying EA to Stanford so would that hurt my chances in any way?</li>
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<p>a) you're a junior... don't sweat it
b) standford is non-binding... go right ahead.</p>

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<p>Stanford is non binding so it doesn't really matter if you apply early or not.</p>

<p>Just a warning, Stanford is extremely trendy and they reject a lot of good people...extremely talented and qualified. </p>

<p>If you're going to spend time filling out applications, make sure you want to go to Stanford for what's at Stanford and not just the name.</p>

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<p>If you want to continue with Bass, Stanford is NOT for you.</p>

<p>Check out other top-notch schools like Yale and Northwestern.</p>

5

<p>hm.. it would help if you had a definite niche</p>

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<p>I was hoping bass playing could be my hook. After all, how many bass players apply to Stanford especially considering the dumb bass player stereotype.</p>

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<p>Believe it or not, a lot of smart people play bass. I'm sure there are plenty of bass players who apply to Stanford.</p>

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<p>stanford prefers people that are super good in one thing rather than well-rounded people</p>

<p>u should stress ur bass playing abilities and i think you'll have a good chance</p>