Chances for Stanford and other schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Currently looking at Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and other schools but mostly these ones. What are my chances?

GPA UW: 3.911

GPA W: 4.711

ACT: 32

EC:

  • Piano (10+ years)
    -Student Council (Junior Secretary, Senior VP)
  • Key Club
  • NHS
  • Started my own community service club
  • Inspire Nevada (program for civic engagement)
  • Ekal Vidyalya (youth organization for India)
  • Classical Indian dance
  • Another club mentoring young children

Community Service: 300 - 400 hours

Awards:

  • National History Day (national outstanding entry, 1st at state two years in a row)
  • HOSA 3rd place
  • Some piano awards
  • Inspire fellow (1 out of 3 juniors picked at our school for the program)
  • HOBY camp,

Classes:

  • 3 APS so far (very low, I know)
  • Taking 4 next year (AP Calc, AP Lang, AP Comparative, AP Gov)

Employment: Internship w/the Bernie Sanders Campaign

Teacher Recommendations:

  • 1st will probably be 9/10
  • 2nd will probably be 8/10

Counselor Recommendation: probably generic, 6/10

Pretty average, but I plan to spend a lot of time on my essays

Thank you in advance!!

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No way to chance any applicant for Stanford since it is a Reach for everyone. Apply and hope for the best.

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Current Princeton student here with quite a few friends at Stanford.

Based off your current description, pretty much agree with Gumbymom.

You’ll either be in the general categories of “Admit”, “Strongly Recommend”, “Only if Space”, or “No”. Based off your current description, I’d throw a possible “Only if Space.”

However, that’s not because you aren’t a strongly recommend or maybe even Admit! I say my current evaluation because I don’t know enough about you.

  1. Academics: Your GPA seems pretty solid and I’m guessing is in the top 10% of your class. Your ACT is alright and won’t help or hurt you. So in terms of academics, you’ll probably pass the readers evaluation, although your class rank, if a factor, may change this if for some reason you happen to be like 100/500 even with that GPA.
  2. Essays: You mention you’ll spend extra time on this. Please do, essays + your extracurricular app can make or break Stanford
  3. Persona: You need to craft a solid “persona” to admissions officers.

I’m helping out students on CC for an entrepreneurship class project and giving out complimentary analysis of your app, so if you need more help, feel free to message me.

Also, feel the Bern!