<p>-ethnic background: Brazilian (moved to TX in late 2001)
-gender: male
-SAT I: 2050/2400 (CR 650, W 710, M 690)
-SAT II: Math II 740, Physics 800, U.S. History 650
-ACT: 31 (34 math, 31 science, 29 writing, 28 reading, 10 essay)
-GPA: 3.74 UW, ~3.9 weighted
-Rank: 7 out of 144</p>
<p>9th GPA: 92.94
10th GPA: 94.55
11th GPA: 99.16
12th GPA: So far, over 100</p>
<p>I'm taking the most rigorous classes available, and I go to a highly competitive magnet school in South Texas. It's been a top 10 high school on Newsweek a few times in the past few years, as highly ranked as 4.</p>
<p>ECs/Activities/Etc:
Taught myself HTML, PHP, SQL, ActionScript, couple other languages
Worked as freelance programmer/web designer since 9th grade, received excellent reviews and ratings
Did a lot of summer research at a local Texas A&M research lab
Co-authored a scientific paper
Worked as a lab technician last summer, excellent letter of rec from a leading scientist
Designed webpage for a local ophthalmologist, excellent letter of rec from him
A lot of community service
Worked as a volunteer programmer for LifeNets (non-profit working to end genocide in Africa)
Ran a very successful campaign for LifeNets, collected over 300 letters from concerned citizens to Senators, invited to attend meeting with Senators (unfortunately I could not afford the plane ticket)</p>
<p>since you're hispanic your chances are tripled essentially, so you're looking pretty good - four mexicans/hispanics got into stanford last year and they had similar stats.. perhaps lower</p>
<p>My understanding is that Brazilian doesn't count as Hispanic. Don't quote me on this, but admissions officers consider Hispanic to be from a Spanish speaking country. So being Brazilian doesn't really help or hurt you in this case. And don't try to lie, because that would be catastrophic if they found out. Not that I assume you'll lie, but I know this guy that when he applied he tried to mark Hispanic (he's Brazilian) and an admissions officer called his house and said that lying about anything on an application is basically the nail in your coffin. Apparently, they can catch you. I'm sure you wouldn't do that though.</p>
<p>It's a bit of a reach but not impossible. Go for it. You never know until you try.</p>
<p>I liked your EC's, jobs and what not and I believe that will be a serious boost. But, your SAT score does not compete with most of the other applicants to Stanford so that will hurt. Also, 3.74 GPA unweighted is not that high to stand out, most applicants have 3.9+. I don't know what the 99 and other gpa's you have are for, so I can't judge that. You should probably get a computer science teacher to write your rec as well as another teacher that knows you well. Also, focus on your essays and that should be a boost. </p>
<p>Final Verdict: Long-Reach, mostly because of SAT and GPA(If Brazillian is not a URM), You are pretty much in (If Brazillian is a URM)</p>