Chance Junior for Stanford

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2380 (780CR, 800M, 800W, 12E)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math IIC; taking US History and Chem
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (most rigorous courseload)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10% (school only does deciles)
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): taking US History, Chem, BC Calc, Stats
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Lit, AP Span Lang, some non-AP social studies class, Math at Stanford University
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): CA State Tournament Qualifier in Policy Debate, USAJMO Qualifier, 4th Place at So Cal Championship in Black Belt Sparring, NMSF (probable – 240 PSAT), Silver President’s Award in Community Service
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Policy Debate (9/10/11/12, President of the Speech and Debate Team, Captain of the Policy Debate Team, CA State Tournament Qualifier, finalist at District Tournament and first alternate to Nationals, Top Speaker at SCU Invitational, organized and taught at summer speech and debate camp fundraiser), Math Club (9/10/11/12, USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad Qualifier – Score: 27, 3 x AIME Qualifier – highest score: 9, National Winning Team – 4x4 Competition, National 3rd Place Team – Mandelbrot Team Play Competition, 2nd Place Open Division in Santa Clara Valley Regional Competition, Mandelbrot Competition West/International Region Individual Leader-board), Karate (since 4th grade, Black Belt, 4th Place in Black Belt Sparring at So Cal Grand Championship), Cross Country (9/10/12), Track (10/12)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Silver President’s Award in Community Service for working at a monthly fundraiser booksale, phone banking for the 2008 Obama Campaign, teaching debate to novices, and a lot of miscellaneous service activities
[</em>] Summer Activities: Debate camps (9/10/11), worked/organized summer speech and debate camp fundraiser (10/11, raised $30,000)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA (Bay Area)
[</em>] School Type: very competitive Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Algerian-American
[</em>] Gender: M
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<p>I must commend you for your accomplishments. Your scores, course work and ECs are impressive. You should be a strong candidate for Harvard, Yale & Princeton as well. Have you decided on a major?</p>

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<p>Strong credentials, you’re HYPS material. Stanford seems to have taken notice of Speech-Debate inflation though (I’ve seen state db8 finalists & nat qualifiers get rejected) so make those essays count, as you very well know.</p>

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<p>I also believe that you have a strong chance at the HYPSM, but from going through Stanford acceptee’s and such, Stanford tends to be inclined towards more talent oriented people (of music, sports, etc) (I’m a violinist and was accepted to Stanford, and they are trying to recruit me into their orchestra). But, that doesn’t mean that you don’t have a good chance at Stanford (which I personally believe you do)</p>

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<p>^I don’t know, jsungoh–the only talents that have surfaced in me so far are of the intellectual variety, and they still let me in. :)</p>

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<p>Make sure that your essays are extremely well-written! Those scores won’t mean anything unless you are able to express yourself in writing as you clearly are able to verbally. There will be a ton of kids with your stats applying as well.</p>

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<p>oh zenkoan, you’re so funny! dude, don’t stress - I got in with nowhere NEAR the creds you have. You’ll go far!</p>

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<p>You have a very good chance as long as you write compelling essays :)</p>