Chances for Stanford&UCLA&UC Berkeley

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I'm from Turkey from a high quality private school. I applied to Stanford as REA, also to UCLA and UC Berkeley for biomedical engineering and as the notification date comes closer I grow nervous. Here are my qualifications: </p>

<p>GPA of 3.6. ACT of 33. Sat 2 Math 1&2 800, Biology 760, chemistry 790, Physics 780.
AP Bio 5, Calculus BC 5, Physics C 5, Psychology 5, Chemistry 4. </p>

<p>I've been to Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgical Skills Internship this summer and got a recommendation letter from a really renowned doctor from Stanford. Worked in an hospital twice for a month. Also I've done European Youth Parliament for two years. </p>

<p>Two big community service projects: Taught art to kids in one, taught math to blind kids in another which was later on recognized by a national newspaper. </p>

<p>I play the saxophone and the drums. And I have other crusts of talent I squized in the application.</p>

<p>The thing is the other three other guys who applied to stanford form my school have a higher GPA than mine. Also some of their testscores are better. Finally I heard one of them even got a recommendation letter from the president of the country by pulling some strings. (duh)</p>

<p>What do you think are my chances roughly?</p>

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<p>its going to be tough because internationally Stanford will compare you to everyone in your country not just your school. You have Stanford’s average statistics, but you have taken a lot of SAT 2’s so you could maybe use that to your advantage by sending all of them, not just the required 2. Your extracurriculars do not really show strong commitment from what you have said. Colleges like to see kids with a couple extracurriculars they center their lives around. I mean I don’t know what service opportunities exist in Turkey. It is definitely going to be harder for you but you have just as good a shot as any, goods luck! As long as you have more extracurriculars or some hook that makes you better than those other kids you should be fine, if you don’t its not the end of the world you still have a good shot.</p>

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<p>Your GPA is a bit low for Stanford, as 92% of admitted applicants have at least a 3.75 GPA, so I’d say that’s a high reach for you. UCB is a reach, but possible, and UCLA is definitely more attainable.</p>

<p>Good luck! :)</p>

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<p>it all comes down to your essays in the end…</p>