<p>Bump!</p>
<p>Do NOT send Lilytangz your essay. Send it to a trusted CC poster who has been on for more than one day, more than a week even. You might get ripped off. Be careful. </p>
<p>Also, Berkeley isn’t not a good “back up plan”. It is too selective to be a safety, even if in stats.</p>
<p>Thanks for your concerns!
Yeah, I think I was going to choose UCLA over Berkeley because UCB doesn’t have med (grad) school. </p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>You have a very good chance, DO NOT GET OVERCONFIDENT AND BLOW YOUR ESSAYS!</p>
<p>Play up the volunteering/community service and any leadership you had there, that will help you look less like a cookie-cutter Asian. </p>
<p>Imo 80% chance of admission at Stanford. </p>
<p>You will make all the UC’s even if you write about hating babies in your essays. </p>
<p>Thank you! Haha I’m more worried than overconfident. Good luck to you as well. </p>
<p>0% chance at Stanford.</p>
<p>I don’t want to discourage you but Stanford may be a low match or reach, which it is typically for most applicants.but I think you will be accepted by most if not all of the UCs :)</p>
<p>haha, ok thanks!</p>
<p>“80% chance at Stanford?”
“It may be a reach?”</p>
<p>Stanford is the highest of all high reaches. It the most selective school in the country and the admit rate is probably gonna drop even lower.</p>
<p>@AnnieBeats </p>
<p>Don’t forget OP’s stats. If she has the GPA/SAT/ECs she says she does, she has a better profile than 99.99% of students in America. Although the caliber of Stanford applicants is much higher, you will be hard pressed to find people with a 4.0 in a Bay Area School/2390/lots of APs/so much community service- it is likely she will be in the top 10% of applicants. </p>
<p>Stanford adcoms are smart; they don’t want to miss out on students with the potential of becoming very talented doctors, especially when they have selected Stanford as their top choice school by applying REA. </p>
<p>@WhartonnotHYPS Yes, the OP is highly qualified, but, Stanford is still the highest of all reaches. You can have a perfect 2400 on the SAT, and a 4.0 GPA at Stuyvesant high school. Stanford will still be a high reach for you, as it is for anyone. No one has a good chance at Stanford, MIT, Caltech, or any of the Ivies. It’s just not possible. The OP isn’t excluded from that group. </p>
<p>On Parchment, ACT 35 with everything else at top level (e.g. gpa 4.0, etc) would only get a 20% chance at Stanford. Considering Parchment uses 2012 or earlier admission data for assessment, the current chance should be even lower.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies! Tbh Stanford acceptances are unpredictable so all I can really do is impress admission officers through my essays. </p>
<p>Definitely accepted. </p>
<p>Everyone here is so critical… here’s what I think:</p>
<p>I would be baffled if any of the UCs reject you. I wouldn’t worry too much in that department</p>
<p>For Stanford, write your heart out on its supplemental essays and you have a really good shot. They really put a lot of emphasis on essays. Best of luck!</p>
<p>You definitely have a very solid chance. The only thing I’d recommend is, although you have a large amount of activities, share the ones that meant the most to you on your Common App. I don’t think they’ll see being the president of everything as a positive. They want to see you have some focus on extracurriculars that matter to you. Also, make sure you apply REA if you want to maximize your chances.</p>
<p>I’m actually younger than you by a year, but I’ll be surprised if any of the UCs defer or reject you. I think you’re a very qualified candidate for Stanford, most probably you’ll get in. Let me know how it goes! Good luck! </p>
<p>Thanks @duhlife, @Shutterstock, @frostyy, and @sirswish7 for the encouraging replies. </p>