<p>Junior Male Asian Indian
GPA 3.75
SAT 2010 (retaking hoping around 2200)
Future Major: engineering
Classes very good: some notable classes - took AP Physics B as a freshman and got a B in it. Took Honors Precalc as a freshman and got an A, took AP Calc AB and got 5 on it soph. year.</p>
<p>EC's </p>
<p>I want to go into business (with engineering) so my ec's are all business and community service related. </p>
<p>Very very involved with this community service club at my school. I live in Michigan and I helped register people in Downtown Detroit to vote for the recent election by going door to door. I also helped sell brocures to people in a Detroit Lion's football game. I help low-income kids do their hw most weeks throughout the year because their families don't know how to help them. I also help set up our yearly walk that occurs at our school. I help get donations from stores in the area, set up the walk, and publicize it. The walk appears in the FOX news every year. This year I was selected by a committee to travel to Mali to help build a school there in a very impoverished village where the overall majority of the people can't read or speak english (like only 1% in the village can, if even that). I will be staying there for two weeks and helping to build the school and teaching citizens in the village how to speak english. I am def. going to write my essay on this. I am a boardmember and VP of community service of the club.</p>
<p>I co-founded a chapter of Future Business Leaders of America at our school. We have already had guest speakers from companies like Merill Lynch and we have had popsicle sales in our school where we have raised money for the club. We have our own website and departments. We are also involved with the community, where we organize and manage events that benefit the public. </p>
<p>I cofounded a non-profit organization that pubishes a paper with community service opportunities for kids to do. It will start to appear in the Detroit Free Press soon in the next few months. Currently, it just appears in local papers and in the school paper. This basically combines my interest in business management and community service. </p>
<p>I am very outspoken about business and how community service is essential to business leaders. I will mention this in my essay about my trip to Mali. </p>
<p>My dad got two fellowships from Stanford and I used to live there. </p>
<p>Do I even have a chance at Stanford? Should I consider applying there?</p>
<p>Apply, but with under a 2200, even as a legacy, chances are slim. Your non profit project sound great! With a 2200 plus and that idea well presented, you're a good candidate.</p>
<p>awww.....ummmm good luck. i still think you have a shot...never give up hope. you still have time. ummm....you gotta understand though that minority advantage wont work for you at stanford because they have all the asians they can handle in cali....but good luck!</p>
<p>dude, dont listen to these guys...they r prob 18 yr olds who think they know all about admission, the only people id listen to r the admissions board when they send me that letter...no1 else knows, so good luck to u, whatever u choose will work out for the best.</p>
<p>If you're so interested in engineering....why choose Stanford? Your ec's would count more at schools like caltech. I don't suppose there's much you can do about your GPA now, but work on your SAT score and if you can get it over 2200, stanford will only be a slight reach</p>
<p>I like engineering a lot, but I don't want to go to a predominantly engineering school like caltech. I would like to take courses in economics because I want to go into business as well. If I got my sat score at about 2200, do you think I got a good shot at stanford?</p>
<p>zagat is always making critsisms of everyone's post without even taking into account their accomplishments. For him/her , a "appropiate" candidate would be a person with a 4.0 gpa, 2400 SAT, and is the mayor of a state, or a young millionaire. Zagat also thinks a good candidate are nobel prize winners :)</p>
<p>Sorry primiative, but not enough people are honest. Asian males with below 2200s just plain don't get into Stanford. It would be very nice if schools truly looked at the human, but they mostly look at stats and then differentiate by looking at a list.</p>
<p>It would be very nice if schools truly looked at the human, but they mostly look at stats and then differentiate by looking at a list.</p>
<p>HYPSM stresses extensively on the importance of rec letters, essays, and interviews. They do want humans, and not robots. The decision roster threads here on CC confirms this for all the ivies and if you check them, their ecs do not really stannd out in the way you expect them to. Academics is important but a 2200 + SAT score wont really help an asian much. their personality portrayed in their essays and recs will definately.</p>