Chance my E.C's? Business

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<p>Stanford has been on my top 3 list for quite sometime now, and I want to see what the community thinks if my Extracurricular section.</p>

<p>I am fairly confident that I have the grades and scores to get me in the threshhold (high 3.9 unweighted, 12 aps mostly 5's, 2310 sat composite). </p>

<p>What I want to know is, will my extracurriculars be able to get me through the door?</p>

<p>E.C List:</p>

<p>3 years of varsity tennis </p>

<p>Offer tutoring for students and local kids since sophomore year</p>

<p>Created a library of online physics, math and biology videos centered around my schools textbooks for the classes to use. Classes do use them a lot, and I get lots of positive feedback from teachers.</p>

<p>NHS member</p>

<p>Co- founder of "the future leaders club" for talking about political, economic and scientific dilemmas in the world currently and attempt to solve them through teamwork and strategizing</p>

<p>3 years of working at the priory Bridge Program. This is a summer school for underprivileged 8th graders, where I have taught Math and science for 3 summers</p>

<p>Stanford EPGY student</p>

<p>Amazing rec letters</p>

<p>Here is the big one:
I have co-founded and developed an online website. The website, although not quite launched( wait a few months!) is called "PeerVids" and offers ways for students and teachers to create and adapt curriculums around video lecture series. Essentially, it is based off of user generated content, where students make educational videos and teachers adapt them to their curricula. It was lots of fun to develop and I learned a lot. That is probably what I will write my essays on.</p>

<p>So I am trying to stick to and education/teaching theme. I hope it shows the passion and depth needed.</p>

<p>Please let me know if it will push me into Stanford!</p>

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<p>Your grade is certainly great, but I have bad news for you. Your bussiness alone is not very significant compare to other applicants. That is, many Stanford applicants have their own websites or something compareable to that. </p>

<p>The stand out ones are the ones who have serious part-time bussiness, many make thousands of dollar every month, some even got VC backed when they were just High school freshman. I’d say you might be a bit late to the game if you want to stand out among others using your website and I certainly think you have a good shot if you are a well rounded student (since you played varsity tennis I’d say so). You have a great chance as anyone else.</p>

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<p>Henryvli: You have been posting a lot on the Stanford site and much of what you say seems very opinionated and at times mean. Are you an alum? Is there some background that you possess that gives you the right to post and proclaim the things you do? </p>

<p>I would recommend the OP ignore your statements. CC is about mentoring others who need questions answered. Normally the people who reply, do so because they have some experience regarding the circumstance. Don’t mislead these kids who are truly looking for guidiance if you don’t know what you’re talking about.</p>

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<p>OP: If you want guidance look for answers from Zenkoan and Phantasmajoric. One is currently a student, while the other has graduated. They are a wealth of information when it comes to just about anything. And, if they don’t know an answer they won’t just bluff, for the sake of trying to sound informed</p>

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<p>Wow a website! Please share the link when you have finished it! =D</p>

<p>On the other hand though, the idea is not that new. There are tons of educational video websites online, like KhanAcademy. There is also teachertube (it has its own wiki page) that sounds similar to yours, so maybe you will need to inject some new ideas into your website to show that you are innovating something instead of merely following what others have done. I think you should also launch your website as soon as possible (provided that everything is done of course) because you have to wait for a while before users start uploading content. A website that is brimming with content and users is much more impressive than a skeleton website that is just recently functional. </p>

<p>But I think that your website can be potentially very impressive. You can also tie it in with Stanford’s recent coursera offerings.</p>

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<p>Yea I know of KhanAcademy and teachertube- We are pretty different from KA, but I am actually interning with them this summer. Teachertube I have not looked into fully. Thanks for the advice.</p>

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<p>Charlie: Your accomplishments are fantastic. Please note that unless you’re receiving advice from people on this thread who are either Stanford students, alum or parents of Stanford students, who have been through this process for Stanford, take this advice with a grain of salt, and even then no one truly has all the answers. Only Stanford will truly know what Stanford wants.
At the end of the day you have to go with your gut. You have to read lots and lots of threads, then formulate your own conclusions.</p>

<p>Good luck with everything…:)</p>