chance? moved from another school during JUNIOR year

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Applying Stanford EA</p>

<p>2200 SAT [CR:700, M: 760, W:740]
710 (math2c), 700 (mathIC), 700 (Bio-m)
no rank
no weighted gpa (3.65/4) [lower than expected b/c change of gpa system from old school to new school; also, new school didn't include some of the grades i received from old school]
have taken a rigorous courseload</p>

<p>from new jersey</p>

<p>moved from another school during junior year
continued some clubs that i was a part of in old school
(ruined my chances of aquiring any 'high' positions, but i became a secretary, editor and executive member of 3 clubs) + ruined a lot of other things too
youth club vp-11th, pres-12th</p>

<p>member of: national honor society, national art honor society, mathletes</p>

<p>but, grades are higher in junior year than in 10th</p>

<p>varsity xcountry and varsity track since 7th grade (could have been captain, but moved to new school)
symphony orchestra- received gold medals for music competitions</p>

<p>important awards: ap scholar(pending, i guess), national merit commended student, national history day competition- 1st place, girl scout gold award</p>

<p>volunteer religion teacher
volunteer at the hospital (200+ hrs)
work as a secretary for a pediatrician
researched at a professional lab for 2 summers- have entered siemens/ will enter intel & isef</p>

<p>taking 7 aps this year: physics b, calc bc, spanish, stat, gov, eco, lit
--> doing well in all of them, so far </p>

<p>recs: ap bio, english, ap euro
essays: fairly confident of their strength and meaning</p>

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<p>It's a bigggg reach. Below average GPA, average SATs and mundane ECs.</p>

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<p>I think your ECs are good, especially the volunteering/research ones. If your gpa was maybe .25 higher, you'd be looking at a low reach school. This way, it's really big.</p>

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<p>Even with .25 higher GPA I still think Stanford would be a reach (MAYBE slight reach at best).</p>

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<p>NATIONAL HISTORY DAY!!! wait. you got 1st place at nationals? what? what division?</p>

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<p>Stanford is a big reach. So are most of the Ivies. But there's still lots of good schools that probably wouldn't be such a heavy reach. Think schools just a little less selective:</p>

<p>Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
Emory
Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Maybe even U of Chicago.</p>

<p>You'd also have to add some safeties, of course.</p>

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<p>thanks guys.. gpas suck!</p>