Hey, all. Thanks for reading. Here’s some background: I’m a white male from Kansas in a medium income bracket looking to major in Biomedical Engineering or Astrophysics. Haven’t decided which is better yet, but one of the two.
UW/W GPA: 3.8, 4.3, strong upward trend (Started with a 3.4 Freshman year)
ACT: 33 (36 E, 30 M, 33 R, 34 S, 33 W), taken twice, thinking about taking once more
Awards: National Merit Commended, the highest awards for classwork from my nationally-ranked high school, AP Scholar with honors, various decorations for Orchestra at the state level
4 AP Exams under my belt: 5 on Lang, 5 on Euro, 4 on APUSH and 4 on Physics 1
ECs: I’ll start small and work big: I play intramural tennis for my school, mostly for fun. I also write novels in my free time and have won NaNoWriMo four times. I used to be in Boy Scouts and am an Eagle Scout, my project involved constructing signs around a local park. I am a Varsity member of my school’s Scholar’s Bowl. I am involved in four NHS organizations as a member and one- History- as President. I am First Viola on my school’s orchestra and I also tutor violin for a living; I am also a member of my district’s invitation-only Honor orchestra and will be playing keynote to my city’s symphony in a month’s time. And I am the head of a research team currently planing an experiment centered around synthetic biology and CRISPR with my district’s center for advanced studies.
Senior Course Load: AP: Lit, Phys2, Calc AB, Gov, Bio; Honors Engineering; Honors Orchestra; and Gifted.
Extra, potentially relevant information: I travel a lot, and have been to 32 states and 9 countries in the last year; I was raised by my single mom; I’m told my essays are the most powerful part of my application, besides possibly the research team; and I am a self-published author.
So, yeah. That’s what’s up. Think it’s enough? I have no idea what to expect. It all looks decent from my perspective, but this is Stanford we’re talking about. Their REA admit rate is 12%. We’ll see how this goes.
Thanks for the input!
You have as good a chance as anyone who is unhooked. If you have an alternate school that uses ED I’d consider that instead as REA and RD admission rates are about the same at Stanford after accounting for athletes, etc.
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Is that ACT score super scored? Stanford does use a form of super scoring for ACTs, so that may help.