Chances for my dream school?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>White Female from Michigan
12/521 (I believe.) Somewhat competitive school.
Both parents went to college but never graduated.</p>

<p>GPA (Don't know which Stanford uses)
Fresh-Junior UW- 3.89 W-4.03 (Sick 2nd semester of fresh yr... grades suffered, 3 b's)
Soph-Junior UW-3.96 W- 4.17</p>

<p>ACT- 33</p>

<p>AP Classes (including next year's)
Calc AB
Calc BC
European History
World History
English (Lit and Comp)
Chemistry</p>

<p>AP Tests: All of the above plus Psychology (5), Biology (5), Government (5), Statistics, and Spanish.</p>

<p>Recs: Teachers: Great. All of my teachers love me.
Counselor: Don't know because it'll be a new counselor next year. Which is good because mine hated me for some reason.</p>

<p>ECs (weak)
Debate Club (10th-12th)
Model UN (11-12). Many trips to Model UN at U Mich.
National Honor Society (11-12)
Basketball (9. Injury, could only do city sports after.)
City Sports (Basketball, softball, volleyball, swimming)- 11 years.
Volunteer Coaching- 5 years. 3 teams a year for inner city kids. 3 hours at least a day. g
Well over 300 hours of community service (Not something I kept track of =[)
Basketball Referee- 2 years. 6 Hours every weekend.
Volunteer Umpire- 3 summers.
Part-time Job.
2 summers at CTD program at Northwestern.
Piano 6 years. Self-taught but never did any concerts or anything. Just entertained children at my community center at an after-school program.
One strange fact: Technically I am an plumbing apprentice. I could get my journeyman's before I go to college. Hey, women plumbers get paid at lot of money. =] Haha. </p>

<p>I am looking to major in psychology or sociology. Want to go on to law so I can one day grow up to do something in children's rights.</p>

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<p>Your stats are good, especially your AP and ACT scores (the latter place you at the 99th percentile). Your rank is OK. Your ECs are actually decent (I really like the referee/umpire work that you are doing), and I would play-up the plumbing apprenticeship in your essays - it is very unusual and impressive for a high-achieving high school student to go through an apprenticeship and you are probably having to spend many hours in this endeavor. If you could have substantially completed your apprenticeship by the time that you apply to Stanford, I would even say that it would be a "hook". The fact that neither of your parents graduated from college will also help you when you apply.
BTW, Stanford does not use your Freshman year grades.
Are you planning on taking any SAT IIs? Stanford "strongly encourages" (read: take a couple of them!) applicants to take them.
All-in-all, I would say that you have a very good chance if your application essays are strong, you maintain your GPA, and your SAT II scores are high.</p>

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<p>I won't be able to finish the apprenticeship by the time I apply because you have to be 18 and I will only be 17 when I apply.</p>