Chances at stanford?

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<p>I am a rising senior at a competitive public school in Texas that sends many grads to top schools. I am Asian and Male.</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.288 (should go up, i had a beastly junior year)
Class Rank: 13
Class Size: 1017
Top 2%</p>

<p>Good teacher recs
Hopefully i can write good essays</p>

<p>Scores:
Jan Test
Math: 740
Critical Reading: 700
Writing: 700, 9 essay
Total: 2140</p>

<p>March Test
Math: 800
Critical Reading: 630!!!
Writing: 770, 9 essay
Total: 2200</p>

<p>Subject tests:
Chemistry: 740
Bio- 740
Math 2- 760</p>

<p>ACT: composite 36
35 eng
36 math
36 reading
36 science
8 essay (combined eng/writing 31)</p>

<p>12 APs by the time I graduate
Junior year schedule: AP bio, precal h, medical science, eng 3 ap, french 4 ap, apush
Senior year: AP physics b, eng 4 ap, ap macroeconomics/ap gov, french 5 ap, ap calc bc, ap stats, ap comp sci</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>play table tennis competitively
founder/pres of red cross club
VP of Students organizing community outreach
vp of table tennis club (co prez next year)
historian for habitat for humanity
nhs
key club
french national honor society
hosa- teachers were lazy this year.. didnt do anything
mu alpha theta- several math competitions
Texas state french symposium- school got 8th in state. i placed 6th in a category.
several local table tennis awards
national french contest- top 10% in nation
over 200+ volunteer hours
active member at the local buddhist temple
volunteer with mentally disabled kids
Hopspital internship for a month
volunteer once a week at another hospital
dropped orch after 10th for medical science, but in a small orch group still
commended for psat score</p>

<p>what are my chances at stanford?</p>

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<p>The grades and test scores are there, perhaps the CR reading is a bit low, but if I were you I'd take that as a mulligan and just forget about it, I can't imagine it alone would pull you down enough to seriously hurt your chances.</p>

<p>The weaknesses I see here are the EC's. You don't lack a diversity in the sheer amount of EC's you have, rather, in the depth into which it appears you have participated in any of them. What does playing table tennis 'competitively' mean? You'll need to flesh that out well enough to get across the significance of it to an admissions officer. I would also try and find a way to tie together all of your volunteer work, as volunteering seems to be the theme most prevalent among your EC's.</p>

<p>All that being said though, the EC's still seem a little weak to me, but this very well could be because I haven't seen your full app where hopefully you will flesh them out and tie them together.</p>