<p>new sat; 2350
satII; biology 750 french 760 chinese 780 english 750 Physics 760 writing 720 math 760 german 750</p>
<p>5.0 GPA weighted
top 10 out of 500</p>
<p>AP English 5
AP french 5
AP Biology 5
AP US History 5
AP Calculus BC 5
AP Phy c 5
AP german 5
U.S. Government & Politics 5</p>
<p>ec's</p>
<p>varsity basketball team- 4 years (captain 2 years)
key club
community service hours- 400
tennis-jv 1 year varsity 3 years
violin- 6 years
nhs- 4 years</p>
<p>i lvie in california, 20 minutes away from stanford</p>
<p>your stats are amazing but stanford accepts very few students outside of California. If you live in California, consider yourself accepted there already. Otherwise, you have to be extremely amazing. I am not saying that you are not because you are. But if stanford is your choice, and you don't live in California, then the only thing you can do is wish yourself some luck, or try M.I.T.</p>
<p>not to be rude, but i wouldnt say definitely for stanford.</p>
<p>you are extremely qualified & have one of the best chances i've seen. do you have a really strong focus on one of your ec's? that would be the clincher.</p>
<p>Sorry I just know a lot of great kids that got rejected from Stanford...but I am sure you are at the top of the applicant pool. Best of luck...you have a great chance.</p>
<p>Stanford gets a huge number of applicants from the Bay Area. Many, many are faculty kids, legacies and the very well connected Silicon Valley executive kids. Then they seem to take quite a few local athletes as the coaches are familiar with them. Then many vals. That does not leave a lot of open slots for Asian South Bay kids who don't fall into one of those categories.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think you have a much better chance at one of the lower ivies then you will at Stanford.</p>
<p>Sports can certainly help. Contact the coaches at your schools of interest and start up a dialog. </p>
<p>In addition to Stanford, you will need a well-balanced list of matches, safeties and reaches. What are you interested in majoring in? Is money a factor (finaid or merit aid needed)?</p>
<p>i would think that you would need to be recruited for the stanford basketball team, since they have a fairly strong program. (not a great year this year, but #1 in the nation going into tourney last year) so, its not really something you can 'join'. but if you are really good at basketball, definetly try and get into contact with the coach.</p>
<p>The Stanford basketball team would get you in for sure. You'd have the highest stats on the team! If you think you have a shot, contact the coach ASAP. Your coach should know if they would be interested.</p>
<p>Smart, what grade are you in? There are summer camps for each sport where the coaches get to see you in action. This is how most kids get recruited. You need to be signing up for those camps NOW. Your coach would be able to help.</p>
<p>So, wait are you a senior or a junior??? If you are a senior, then you already would have applied to Stanford and gotten your decision either RD or EA, so basically you are just wasting everyone's time and making a fool out of yourself. On the other hand, if you are a junior, then you are either a mad supergenius with athletic ability or a pathetic liar. Come on, 8 AP's by junior year???? Is that even possible???? First of all, I'll just pretend you're the next Einstein and concede that you did indeed take and receive 5's on all the History/Math/Science AP's you have stated. But AP English, NO school that I know of even lets a student take that AP till at least junior year. But I guess it is possible to self-study the AP, so mayyybe you did do it.</p>
<p>Next you claim you played 4 year of V Basketball and 4 years of Tennis. If you are a junior, the nyou have only been in high school for three years so how can this be? Also, I find it hard to believe that you can make your school's varsity basketball team as a freshman with all of that studying going along as a side. Finally, you say you've captain of your b-ball team for 2 years. What kind of dimwit V b-ball team lets a sophomore become a captain?? Only upperclassmen are usualy given positions like that.</p>
<p>I'll stop whining now, I guess I just suck at life compared to you dude.</p>
<p>You've got good enough stats to get in, definitely. However, about 6,000 other people who apply do, too. The trick is being very friendly, personable, and very much yourself in your college essays. For you, college admissions will probably be based mostly on how much they like you- this is coming from a guy with similar stats who got in.</p>
<p>For a D1 school, you have to be REALLY good. Think an all state star at the least, the athlete everyone in your town says is the one that comes along once every 5 years at most.</p>
<p>If you have that going for you and prove yourself under stress with the best candidates at the camps, you can get in with stats MUCH lower than the average for the school if the sport is important to the school. Basketball is VERY important at D1 schools!</p>
<p>Recruited athletes have the best advantage of all applicants. Better than URMs, legacies and even billionaire kids!</p>
<p>Of course it can. Does he have to apply as a nearly-professional violinist for it to help his resume and make him look more rounded? Of course not. Sports look good because they indicate that you may not be a pedantic, overly academic zombie.</p>