Chances for Stanford & Berkeley at 15 yrs old? Help!

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<p>Chances for Stanford & Berkeley at 15 yrs old? Help! </p>

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<p>14-years-old Asian female (Chinese)
will be in high school after this summer (Fall 2008)</p>

<p>SAT at 12 yrs old (Dec. 2006):
Math-590
CR-600
Writing-490</p>

<p>SAT Subjects at 13 yrs old (June 2008):
Math 1: 740
Math 2: 770</p>

<p>SAT Subject Chinese in Oct.2008
Expected full score</p>

<p>PSAT in Oct.2008</p>

<p>SAT in Jan.2009</p>

<p>Talented Youth Program at Johns Hopkins Univ., 2007 & 2008 Summer Camp
Volunteer 2007 Special Olympic, Shanghai
One year full-time tennis school in China</p>

<p>I plan to get in university in 2009 Fall (15 years old) after finish the first year of my high school, and then pursue my college and high school studies concurrently.</p>

<p>What are my chances to get in schools like Berkeley and Stanford? Any suggestions?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure you have to graduate from high school before you go to college…</p>

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<p>lmao!!!</p>

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<p>I sincerely hope you’re joking.</p>

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<p>Very few colleges accept younger students unless they’re really something special. Look through acceptance threads in the Stanford and Berkeley sub-forums to compare yourself.</p>

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<p>Jeez, you are a CC noob if you don’t know that the OP is a ■■■■■/is ■■■■■■■■.</p>

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<p>For one second, I was about to be embarrassed of my race.</p>

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<p>youre too young, you wont fit in, and those are pretty bad SAT scores</p>

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<p>QDD, your SAT scores are nowhere close to meeting the Asian expectations.</p>

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<p>The 1st SAT was just for the J H Young Talent program and was taken when I was just 12. Right now I’m ready for a SAT score of 2250-2400</p>

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<p>QDD, wait until you are a junior in HS to transfer.</p>

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<p>Weak sauce; our val started SAT prep in 6th grade and got 1560/1600 in 8th (thats like 14 right?)</p>

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<p>First – why those schools? Are you being pushed? Do you feel stifled? What would you do if you “only” got into a school like Tufts, for example? </p>

<p>Second – why not just dual-enroll and make a very exciting transcript? Exhaust your academic possibilities first.</p>

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<p>Are you talking about the old SAT?</p>

<p>She prepped for 2 years – quite the fail.</p>

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<p>Gotta be the Old sat since he said
1560 out of 1600…
Or he just counted CR and Math..</p>

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<p>Well she got 2390 in Soph year, and 36. Retook in Senior year for 2400. Now going to MIT.</p>

<p>I admit, prepping for that long is quite a lot of fail.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton explicitly say they don’t require a high school diploma for admission. Oddly, Stanford says it does, but admits homeschoolers every year. But the OP needs a more impressive list of previous academic accomplishments to be ready for Stanford or for Berkeley, and still has time to get them, so what’s the rush?</p>

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<p>“I plan to get in university in 2009 Fall (15 years old) after finish the first year of my high school, and then pursue my college and high school studies concurrently.” </p>

<p>I don’t really understand this phrase. She is planning on pursuing a college degree while at the same time earning her high school diploma? Do all students have that option? Or am I misunderstanding OP?</p>

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<p>My sister went to UCLA at 15, and did not have a very good experience socially. Those 3 years make a huge age difference, simply 18 year old’s heads are in a much different place. The young women were more worldly, more confident socially. The guys freaked at the idea of jail bait, lol. Academically she was their peer, socially she was kind of alone for most of her undergraduate school and felt she didn’t really belong until grad school.</p>

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<p>why are people so eager to go to college? </p>

<p>jesus, i mean its not like im having a GREAT time in HS but come now girls not even IN hs…</p>

<p>i hate people who think they are special…woman go to hs do the whole deal and THEN apply to college along with EVERYBODY ELSE!</p>

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<p>I think people with special educational needs should get special educational provisions, and don’t hate them for that. I’m not sure if the OP has a fitting plan here or not–I’d need more details to get a sense of what the plan really is.</p>