Chance me on Stanford and More Please!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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rom Michigan
GPA: 3.5 UW 4.12W ( we don’t have pluses or minuses, which hurts me cause all my B’s are B+'s)
Took a very rigorous course load at a renowned private school
probably gonna get 4 A’s and 2 B’s senior year, neutral trend

AP’s taken/ taking: AB/Bc Calc, Psych, APUSH, BIO, Chem, Gov
IB’s: Organic Chem, TOK, Physics, Precalc
Total Honors/IB/AP: 16

ACT: 34(34,35,33,33 writing: 8)
Math 2: 770
Bio:660 not sending

EC:
1.) SAGA Club- Founder–> My school’s version of GAS/LGBTQ society and we help other teens struggling with their sexual orientation and gender identity

2.) Project Break The Cycle: I joined a business with my friends, it is a non-profit that sends money to orphanages in Lebanon. We sell T-shirts and hoodie, and I am a co-founder–> we have raised almost 8.5K sinch June

3.) Volunteering: 500ish in total (200 working in a hospital)(200 helping underprivileged children in India)(50 peer tutoring)(50 work in many of my clubs)

4a.) 3 years JV tennis–> 1yrs JV captain

b.) 4 years V Track–> 2yrs Leadership Council

5.) MIT Inspire finalist (top 100 out of 5k)( contest involving subjects in the humanities)- I presented a paper i wrote about Pablo Escobar and Drug Trade

6.) GYLI Club(Global Youth Leadership Initiative)–> group leader --> 4-year member

7.) Newspaper Club–> 4 year member–> editor for two years(Section then Senior Editorial Board)–> we got top 50 newspaper in the country

8.) Summer Job at Kumon tutored kids in math and reading

9.) Attended the NYU Lead(SBI) Business summer program (I am creating an app with my cohort, it’s about mental health)

10.) Research Assistant in a University level Lab that worked on diabetes, and schizophrenic people

Male, Indian, Middle Class, top 20% of my class about 30-35 out of 180( we don’t have official rankings), Detroit, Michigan

I guess LGBTQ is kind of a hook, and my grades dipped last year due to extenuating circumstances that I put in the additional info section

Rec Letters: above average, One teacher know me really well and will give a great rec the other knows me pretty well as well
Essays: above average

EA’s
Uof Michigan- LSA and Ross( sister legacy and my uncle works at the CoE as a professor)
Purdue
Georgia Tech
UMiami
Butler- accepted w/$17,000
IU-Kelley- accepted w/ deans scholarship
MSU- accepted
ASU- accepted w/ full ride

RD( i am not sure ill apply to all of these places)
1.) Dartmouth
2.) Cornell
3.) UPenn( cousin legacy idk if it counts) ( hail-mary)
4.) USC (legacy)
5.) Stanford ( Legacy) ( hail-mary)
6.) N’western ( cousin legacy idk if it counts)
7.) UCLA/UCB (might not apply because low aid for OOS, and they are just as good as Umich)
8.) Xavier ( cousin legacy idk if it counts)
9.) NYU
10.) Vandy (might not apply because my family says I wouldn’t like it there)

THANKs so much

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You’re GPA will hold you back with the Ivies. I was told that Stanford is unlikely unless you are valedictorian or salutatorian, Olympic-bound athlete, or so noteworthy that you appear in the press. Of course there are exceptions but if you are out of the top 10% it may not be worth its. Take the free ride at ASU or go to Michigan in-state.

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“UCLA/UCB (might not apply because low aid for OOS, and they are just as good as Umich)”

Your reason to not apply to these two makes a lot of sense to me. From what I have heard NYU is also likely to be expensive, although I don’t know much about it other than by reputation. From the information that Stanford sends to alumni it sounds like legacy doesn’t actually help much there. Most of your RD list looks reachy to me. I would probably skip most of them.

Your EA list makes a lot of sense to me. While Michigan might be a bit of a reach with an unweighted 3.5, you are in-state and to me it certainly is worth applying.

Congratulations on already being accepted to some very good schools!

“Take the free ride at ASU or go to Michigan in-state.”

This also makes a lot of sense to me.

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@DadTwoGirls In regards to NYU, I’ve heard the give a decent amount of scholarships and financial aid

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@redwingz123, NYU is notoriously stingy with financial aid.

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i guess someone gave me false info, what about merit scholarships?
@suzy100

Also I played football this year(kicker), and my counselor said I can contact the recruiting offic and admissions office and have them flag my application. Does this help admission at all??