Chances for stanford w/ a bad freshmen year (and I mean bad)

<p>Freshmen year uw/w: 2.00 gpa, my brother had cancer so I missed ALOT of school, pretty much nothing else happened
Sophomore year: 3.75 gpa uw/w, won best biology student, best history student, best English student, played varsity tennis. Started a very well received comedy show on my schools bulletin, won a tri-county biology contest, volunteered for 30 hours at an aids food bank. The uw gpa was low because I was taking two maths to catch up with myself and I had to learn algebra and geometry in 1 semester
Junior 4.0 uw, 4.4 w: took 3 APs and an accelerated, ran varsity cross country, v track (I realized I love running like crazy), won best physics/apUS hist student, most fluent Spanish student. was the ap ush representative for leadership, became a safe school ambassador (a bully fighting program), volunteered approx 100+ hours total at the free teen clinic (a position I unfortunately had to miss my homecoming to train for).
That summer I took precalc and Spanish 3
Senior: 4.0 uw, 4.6 w: senior class president, 60 more hours at the teen clinic, a humanitarian trip to Nicaragua. Another year of cross country and track
Since sophomore year I've been a scholar athlete, and have continued my comedy show (the school actually gave me a period for it)
2140 sat
The big issue I see is that even with these accounted for, it still comes to a hs gpa of 3.65, which I'm not sure is top 10%
I'm a scholastic honors graduate with 15 tutor hours
My teacher recs are friggin insane</p>

<p>I am never sure about cases like this. Is it impossible to contact your regional adcom?</p>

<p>I am almost positive that Stanford is one of the few schools that do not look at Freshman year grades. :slight_smile: They recalculate your grades using their own methodology.</p>

<p>Awesome! I didn’t know, sweet!</p>

<p>Yea they don’t look at freshmen grades. And the rest of ur application is literally perfect so…</p>

<p>Even if they did look at your freshman year grades, who gives a ****? You have an amazing application, and you’re very obviously passionate and motivated.</p>

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<p>[School</a> Reports & Transcripts : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/transcripts.html]School”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/transcripts.html)</p>