Chance me for Stanford?

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<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2300 one sitting (800 math and 750 on the other two)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: MathII (800), Chem (800), Bio-M (780), Physics (740)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Close to 4.0? We don't have an unweighted scale. </p>

<p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/494</p>

<p>AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5), Bio (5), USH (5), Chem (5), Stat (5), Micro (4), Macro (4)</p>

<p>IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A</p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Lit and Comp, AP Psych, Art (graduation requirement), and Tech Drawing. I take Calc III at a local college after school too</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Scholar Semifinalist, AP scholar w/distinction, Aime qualifier, then a bunch of small time regional math/science related awards</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Ultimate Frisbee Captain, Math League Captain, Editor/Treasurer of School Literary Magazine, Dance (bboy) - Perform at various school functions, Math/Science League (Team High Scorer, some certificates), </p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: Interned as a data scrubber in an Asian-American Advertising Company, Private SAT tutor (paid)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: Christian Youth Group, Veteran Home, Tutor (unpaid). Not a lot</p>

<p>Summer Activities: Nothing major :\, vacations I suppose? Went to Canada and China, worked at my uncle's newly opened restaurant, learned some French. China, went to visit family, might have mentioned how i noticed the increasing modernization in China (I lived there as a kid)</p>

<p>Essays: Common App - Wrote about my childhood in china and how it made me the person I am today. I liked the shorter one though - talked about Frisbee and how it inspires athleticism, camaraderie, and my involvement in helping make it a gym activity. Stanford essays weren't terribly exciting, but concise and highlighted all the points i wanted to make. </p>

<p>Teacher Recommendation: One was phenomenal. My math teacher let me read it, basically went on about how my amazing grades were secondary to my desire to learn, how intelligent i am and yet still possess a refreshing innocence/lack of arrogance, my contributions to the math team, and how she's certain i'm destined for success. Chem teacher should be very good as well, maybe not as personal as my math teacher. Gov teacher should be pretty good</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: never saw, but i assume it's good</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Medium/large public school
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Low 6 figures
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I think I count as 1st gen? I was born here but lived in China from ages one to six.</p>

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<p>Edit: Slow internet. double posted. don’t know how to delete.</p>

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<p>^generally chance threads happen before applicants have applied, either as a way of figuring out what schools should be reaches/matches/safeties or (earlier on in the HS years) to maybe change parts of the profile (drop this club, add another, improve grades, get awards, etc.). </p>

<p>If you’ve submitted your app, this exercise is kinda futile. If I say you’ll get in and you get your hopes up, the best outcome is you get accepted and are like “yeah I saw that coming.” Your fate is in someone else’s hands now. Embrace that.</p>

<p>That said I like your chances. Nothing would surprise me though. Stanford rejects a lot of people with your grades and scores.</p>

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<p>I’d say about 8-10%.</p>

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<p>Definitely better than 8-10%.</p>

<p>You have a lot of good advantages, such as growing up in China, work as a tutor, and awards. BUT, you don’t have a great hook- something phenomenal that you’ve done- and you don’t seem to have a major extracurriculars (just a bunch of minor ones).
By first generation they mean the first to go to college, not a first generation immigrant.</p>

<p>I’d say 25%, but what do I know?</p>

<p>If I was you, I would apply to some tech schools, like MIT and Caltech. You seem more fitted to them than to regular universities.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input, but my focus on science in hs pretty much turned me off of those tech schools haha.</p>