I know nothing is official, I just want an idea. Any tips would be appreciated.
Background:
Resident of Michigan
White
Male
Not applying for financial aid
Stats:
1440 SAT (750 Math, 690 English)
31 ACT (35 English, 33 Math, 30 Reading, 25 Science)
*Send both to show that I don’t absolutely bomb in a certain area?
GPA UW: 3.78 (but with Stanford exempting freshman year, should be around a 4.0)
GPA W: 3.87 (again, with Stanford, should be higher)
*Upward trend
*Senior grades not counted (yet)
Classes:
*Took most of the APs that my school offered, took honors when couldn’t take APs, no APs allowed before Junior year
Junior Year -
AP Chem (3) send score?
AP Gov (4)
AP Lang (4)
Physics
Spanish 4
Pre-Calc
Senior Year -
AP Calc
AP Physics
AP Lit
AP Micro
Visual Basic (C++ coding)
Anatomy
ECs:
National Honors Society (2 years)
Key Club (4 years, on board)
Link Crew (Peter mentor, 2 years)
Science Olympiad (3 years)
High School Soccer (3 varsity letters)
ECs outside school:
Club soccer (all my life)
Took computer coding and app development classes at the University of Michigan for 2 summers
Dropshipping
$1.8K+ in stocks
Photography and filmmaking is a passion of mine (wrote on my common app main essay)
Essays:
Letters of Rec should be good, I have 4 + counselor’s
I think I was creative and genuine on all my short responses and essays
Chances for 4.0 GPA, 1600 SAT applicants are very low. They reject MANY Valedictorians every year. There are simply too many qualified applicants applying to too few slots. Apply if you are intrigued, but don’t get your hopes up. Students with your stats do get in, but who and why remains a mystery, even to those accepted. The odds are greatly stacked against you.
Then, you need to ask yourself, would the education you’d get at Stanford be vastly superior to what you’d get at Michigan if you get in. The answer is probably not, but it would be WAY more expensive.
Excepting your ACT composite, your standardized scoring falls within Stanford’s middle range for attending students. The post above mentions accepted students, who represent a different group.
As an opinion, I think you might be a good candidate at a reach-type school, but I don’t think it will be Stanford. Nonetheless, I wish you luck with all of your college applications.
By “excepting” I was noting a technical point, that your composite ACT does not land within Stanford’s middle range. However, because of your superb English score it serves to substantiate your profile. Personally, I think it should be sent for this reason (as you also tentatively observed).
“$1.8K+ in stocks”
Do you know what Stanford looks for, in choosing top applicants? Or just how fierce the competition is? Tell us how you researched your shot at one of the tippiest tippy tops.
The SAT English is low, The ACT reading and science subs are low. (It’s not composite, alone.) You’ve got AP scores of 3 and 4 (even the 4s are low for S.) That’s going to make them wonder how academically prepared you are, for the 4 years.
You have Sci Olympiad and a sport. I don’t see any stretch (except taking AP, but more matters) or impact. Assuming you want STEM (the dwindling number of humanities courses,) you have no math-sci activities other than the sci team?
And where’d you get the idea 5 LoRs will be seen as a positive? DId you even read how many S will accept?
When tippy top colleges talk of standing out, it’s on top of academic excellence and the right ECs. Not a replacement. And it’ means relevant to the U, not just to you.