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<p>I've been avoiding this...but since the application is in I guess I want to know what my chances are</p>

<p>State: MI
School: Private, pretty good
Rank: im not sure, top 10%ish...
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: African American
GPA: 3.7 (i'm not sure what it is weighted)
SAT: 1980 W(690); Math(630); R(660)
SAT II: Bio(740), US History (720), Math II (680)
APs: Bio(5), Us History (4), Euro (3)
Total AP classes: 10 (Bio, Chem, Psych, Gov, US History, Euro, Shakespeare, AB Calc, AP Spanish V, World Lit)</p>

<p>GPA this year is only like 3.4 tho and taking 6 AP classes (Chem,Spanish,Psych,AB Calc, Gov, World Lit)</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
Study abroad in Spain for a month (09)
Stanford High School Summer College (08)</p>

<p>Community Service: (nothing stellar) - total about 50/60 hrs
Volunteering at Providence hospital
Volunteering at a Logan elementary school</p>

<p>Awards:
National Spanish Exam Bronze (3 years in a row)
National Society for High School Scholars
AP Scholar
Magna Cum Laude (3 years)
...</p>

<p>Clubs
Forensics Club
Model UN
Spanish Club
Community Service Club</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Piano
Painting
Creative writing</p>

<p>Classes:
Math:4 (2 honors, 1 IB, 1 AP)
English: 4 (2 honors, 2 AP)
Science: (2 honors, 3 AP)
Spanish: (2 honors, 1 IB, 1 AP)
History: (3 AP)
Electives: 3 (arts)</p>

<p>umm...i guess thats it? Is there anything I'm missing?</p>

<p>Pros: hard classes, interest in spanish, i think my essays were well written
Cons: SAT score, GPA (especially this yr it isn't so good!), extracurriculars aren't so good</p>

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<p>Hmm…you should really post this in the general Stanford forum instead of the Class of 2014 thread (just a courtesy thing). And keep in mind that when you post chance threads, most people won’t be able to tell you whether or not you’ll have a “good” chance of getting in because Stanford’s admissions system is quite holistic. Make sure that your essays are top-notch and afire with passion. And you don’t need a lot of fantastic extracurriculars…just let your application show which areas/activities are your passions…what exactly are you interested in? Creative writing? Piano? Community Service? Model UN. You have a lot of interests but are there any that mean that much more to you? What sort of things have you done to pursue these interests? Initiative is a quality that I think adcoms like to see in students.</p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

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<p>I guess my major passion is spanish. I highlighted on my application that I studied abroad in Spain for 5 weeks, I’ve taken four years of spanish and now I’m in AP Spanish, and I do community service at a bilingual elementary school where a lot of kids speak spanish, and I’m in spanish club.</p>

<p>My other passion is public speaking which is why I am in the Forensics Club and Model UN. In both clubs I can practice speaking, but in different ways.</p>

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<p>URM status will help but your stats besides that are ok and your ecs were a little weak. People still get in though with your stats so i think you still have a fairly good shot.</p>

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<p>did OP end up getting in???</p>

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<p>I don’t think so. D:</p>

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