Chances for Stanford Early Action, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>First post in CC forums! It's nice to meet everyone!</p>

<p>As a senior this fall, I will be applying to:
-Stanford (Early Action)
-Brown (PLME)<br>
-Northwestern (HPME)
-USC (BS/MD)<br>
-UCSD (BS/MD)
-Harvard<br>
-Yale
-University of Pennsylvania<br>
-Duke
-Johns Hopkins<br>
-Pomona College
-Swarthmore College</p>

<p>I would like to know (frankly) how likely I am to be admitted into the universities above. I know it's a long list, but I'm steering my applications toward the 7-8 year MD programs.</p>

<p>Much thanks in advance :)</p>

<p>Numbers
Weighted GPA: 4.44 (not including 2nd semester of Junior Year)
Class Rank: 1/800 (about)</p>

<p>SAT: 2380 (2nd Sitting)
ACT: 36 (1st Sitting)</p>

<p>SAT II:
-Chemistry: 790
-Korean with Listening: 800
-Math II: 760
-United States History: 740
-World History: 780</p>

<p>AP:
-Calculus AB: 5
-Chemistry: 4
-English Language: 5
-Human Geography: 5
-United States History: 5
-World History 5</p>

<p>Schedule of Courses
Current:
-AP Physics BC
-AP Calculus BC
-AP Government and Politics
-AP English Literature
-AP Biology
-Academic Decathlon</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Academic Decathlon: (10-12)
-Captain (12)
-Vice-Captain (11)
-MVP at County and States Competitions
-Speech Gold Medal
-Interview Silver Medal
-Art Silver Medal
-Honorable Mentions in other subjects</p>

<p>Clubs
-Art Exploration Club (10): Founding Member / Secretary (10)
^I moved schools in Junior Year, hence the single year of involvement.
-Math Club (09-12): President (12)
-Medical Club (11-12): Treasurer (12)</p>

<p>Music: Violin: (09-12)
-Youth Symphony Orchestra: Assistant Concertmistress (09-10)
-Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (11-12)
-4th Place in Southwestern Youth Music Festival</p>

<p>Volunteering: (10-12)
-300+ Hours at Maternity Ward of local hospital (10-12)
-Internship with Cardiologist (11-12)</p>

<p>Awards
Academic Decathlon
-Speech Gold Medal
-Interview Silver Medal
-Art Silver Medal
-MVP at County and State competitions
Discus Award
National Merit Commended Student<a href="as%20of%20now">/u</a></p>

<p>Other Notes
-Gender: Female
-Ethnicity: Asian
-Location: Southern California
-Recommendations will be from Acadeca Coach (& Biology teacher) and English teacher. They'll be personal at the very least-hopefully!-because I'm on very good terms with them.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure that's as specific as I can get at the moment; I'm sorry for the super-long post.
Thank you in advance <3</p>

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<p>honestly, with those numbers, i think you should find some safties</p>

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<p>Pretty good but nothing stands out to me.</p>

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<p>Please tell me whether you will get into Stanford! If you don’t, I’m probably not.</p>

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<p>790 and 4? What happened?!?!?!?!</p>

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<p>Welcome to CC! Where the extraordinary are ordinary, the overachieving come standard, and incredulously amazing profiles are…
Holy wankers in a jukebox.
I don’t know what to say. Based off your profile, you should know your chances decently well. Solid profile across the board; you’re a highly competitive applicant.</p>

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<p>hmm, not much medically related EC’s for those bs md programs though. you seem intelligent enough to make it through the reg path though.</p>

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<p>My D is also applying to Stanford(Early) and couple of BS/MD programs. Yesterday we recvd following update from her GC regarding REA –</p>

<p>" The student may not apply to an Early Action,Restrictive Early Action, or Early Decision program (or any variation thereof) at any private college/university in the U.S.</p>

<p>This restriction includes applications for scholarships or special academic programs where the college/university requires the student to apply under an early notification plan for consideration."</p>

<p>Same thing says on Stanford website also. I have two questions –</p>

<p>(1) What is early notification plan ?
(2) Do BS/MD programs considered as Special academic programs ?</p>

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<p>Agh, I had completely forgotten about this thread until I got an email notification yesterday. </p>

<p>Regarding my 790 and a 4 in Chemistry… I have no idea. I think I was stressing about the exam too much, as my AP Chemistry teacher took a maternity leave during the middle of the year, and so for the Spring semester, I had a completely different teacher.</p>

<p>I do have decent scores, I think; the only part I’m worried about is that I don’t have a specific talent to showcase in my application. Hoping that the general well-roundedness will be attractive instead. </p>

<p>An early notification plan means that the student will be notified of the admission decision early, isn’t it? I’m pretty sure the programs I will be applying to fall under the regular decision category, so I’m going to send in my Early Decision application for Stanford later this week.</p>

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<p>What I have heard that if anybody is applying to Stanford under REA cannot apply to any BS/MD program even if the program is under RD. I might be wrong. Are u sure u could apply to Stanford(REA) and BS/MD (RD) ?</p>

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<p>You should have a good shot anywhere. Heck, if all other Stanford REA applicants were as qualified as you I wouldn’t even bother applying.</p>

<p>Out of curiosity, what’s your unweighted GPA?</p>

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<p>You are among the bunch of nerdy Asians… (it’s rude, but that’s the truth)</p>

<p>You should be accepted, but if you are denied, the reason would be your non-passionate ECs.</p>

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<p>^ I am chancing you because I am an Asian too and I know the conditions & competition among Asians. (the competition is brutal)</p>

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<p>Am I considered into the “nerdy asian” pool? I mean I have high test scores and GPA, but I also devoted most of my EC time to sports. In particular, non-typical asian sports (sorry for the stereotype) such as football and track. I wasn’t able to do football this year and thus did cross country instead. Also, I’m from a predominately white state (WI), and not from CA?</p>

<p>Sorry for hijacking your thread lol, but harisheena’s comment piqued my curiosity.</p>

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<p>@bigkev - provide the link of your profile</p>

<p>how can I chance on the vague information provided by you.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1013964-stanford-duke-nwestern-like.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1013964-stanford-duke-nwestern-like.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Sorry and thanks.</p>

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<p>Although this thread has been long forgotten for weeks, posting again just to answer a question posed earlier. </p>

<p>BS/MD programs do not count as early notification programs, and so I would have been able to apply to the Stanford Early Action program. However, the deadline for the Baccalaureate/MD program at USC is December 1, about a month before the Regular Decision deadline. If anyone is planning to apply to both, it is not possible.</p>

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<p>If you don’t mind me asking, what was your REA decision?</p>

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<p>Sorry, I should have updated the first post or made it clearer. I didn’t apply to the REA because of the problem mentioned in the post before. I applied to the USC Baccalaureate/MD program, so the Stanford REA’s conditions could not be met.</p>

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<p>idaisyi, you have great chances at places like the Ivies and Stanford because of your amazing scores. Unfortunately, I don’t think that your medical extracurriculars, at least from what I can see, are deep enough for places like Northwestern HPME. That’s just me. Of course, essays play a large role. What other combined programs have you applied to?</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>