Chance me for Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Personal:

Asian, Male, American citizen

extremely competitive Gifted Science High school in Korea

Class Size of 130, rank unavailable

Numbers:

ACT: 33/35/36/36 (tested once)

GPA: 4.22/4.3 (Our school calculates 4.3 as an A+, 4.0 as A0, 3.7 as A-. I don’t have any Bs or below)

APs:

AP Cal BC (5, took last year), took AP lang, Physics C Mechanics, Physics C E&M, Statistics, Chemistry this year and haven’t got the score yet. Probably all 5 maybe 4 for AP lang

School course:

taking Linear algebra(Anton’s textbook), Automata thoery, Number theory, etc. this year. Took Calculus, Physics, Chemistry(Zumdal’s textbook), Biology, Computer(C+), Quantum physics(Griffith’s textbook), etc. Also took English, literature, Korean, Chinese, world history, Korean histroy, etc. Also, taking Cornell’s summer program this summer.

Extracurriculars:

  1. Basketball varsity captain.(But our team is the weakest in the country)
  2. Did research about game theory and won the gold prize from our school
  3. Did internship in Korea University NanoBio Sensing System Laboratory
  4. Athletic Department President in student government
  5. Editor at school’s newspaper
  6. Did volunteer of under the Korea MOLIT for more than a hundred hours(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)
  7. Won a research award with 3,000$ prize
  8. The president of school TED club(a sort of speech club)
  9. KPHO winter school (kind of like MOP but selects about 60 students and it’s about physics)
  10. Haven’t decided the rest. I have a good research about COVID-19 which also won a school prize and some other minor clubs.

Awards and Honors:

  1. USAMO qualifier (score of 16)
  2. USAPHO qualifier
  3. KSEF(might be a finalist for the ISEF, hopefully)
  4. School research awards(3 in total. Two gold, one silver)

Essays: Haven’t wrote it yet, working on it.

Rec Letters:

Haven’t got it yet

Additional Information Section:

My dad studied and got a PhD degree from Stanford. I’m not sure this counts as a legacy because he isn’t an active alumni.

Areas of Interest:

Statistics, Bio informatics, CS, EE

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Congratulations on your achievements so far. I can’t chance you but believe your application will get a serious look. Legacy definition at Stanford includes undergrad and grad, so you should also get a legacy bump Admissions considerations for children of alumni or donors - Office of the Provost

Make sure to have a balanced list that includes some match schools, as well as at least one affordable safety. Are you looking at ex-US schools as well?

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Thank you for the comment. Yes, I’m also applying to SNU and probably going to get accepted according to our alumnis’ previous results. But still my priority is US colleges such as Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, etc. Do you think it is worth to apply restricted early on Stanford?

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If Stanford is your top choice, REA is likely worth it, but only you can be the arbiter of that. Applying REA to Stanford will prohibit an early action app to MIT (or any other private college, and of course you won’t be able to apply ED anywhere). Definitely apply EA to any public schools on your list that have an early action round (UMichigan, UVA, et al).

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It may be unspoken but I believe Stanford expects legacies to apply REA.

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What is the difference between REA and early action round? Doesn’t REA prohibit applying to any other colleges?

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Stanford is single choice early action so a student can only apply to Stanford early (no ED or other REA). He/She can apply to other schools regular decision.

From Stanford’s website,

  • It is Stanford policy that, if you apply to Stanford with a decision plan of Restrictive Early Action, you may not apply to any other private college/university under their Early Action, Restrictive Early Action, Early Decision, or Early Notification plan.
  • In addition, it is Stanford policy that you may not apply to any public university under an early binding plan, such as Early Decision.
  • If you apply to Stanford under Restrictive Early Action, you may apply to other colleges and universities under their Regular Decision plan.
  • If you apply to Stanford under Restrictive Early Action and your application is deferred, you may apply to another college’s Early Decision II plan.
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Thanks a lot

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Do you have a source for that?

We all know there are schools who directly state they only consider legacy in their early round(s).

But, since Stanford is pretty clear on other aspects of legacy definition, it’s curious they wouldn’t address REA vs RD if there is a difference in how they are treated.

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No, I don’t. We are not legacy but I thought I remember them mentioning it at their admissions presentations. I could be wrong but OP should look into it.

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