Chances - Regular

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>GPA: 4.00
Rank: 1/575
SAT I: 790M / 730V
SAT II: Math - 740 / Chemistry - 750</p>

<p>Courseload: hard
Recs: excellent
Counselor: excellent
Essays: sweet!</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>-Run my own company which does business internationally.
-Interned with a fortune 500 software company
-Lead an international initiative to add technology to impovershed schools
-Nationally Ranked debater / State ranked debater
-National Honor Society
-Robotics Team - Lead Web Design and Programming Teams/Founder
-Webmaster for my school
-Varsity Tennis (4 years)
-Go to a tennis academy 3 times a week 4 years
-I am a speaker for an Islamic Academy and have given speeches to large groups of people
-Worked on McKaskil Senatorial Campaign
-Volunteered for local democratic agency to raise awareness and reduce voter apathy during mid-terms
etc....</p>

<p>what are my chances?</p>

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<p>Looking good.</p>

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<p>do you think my SAT IIs are too low? Also I got my scores back today and I sent them to Stanford, but they were lower than my last ones, except for Chemistry and I took physics on a whim so that was pretty disgraceful (620), I was wondering if that would negatively affect my chances? Does stanford only look at the best scores since they don't actually require SAT IIs</p>

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<p>They only count the best scores. No SAT scores will get you in. Yours are high enough to get in the game.</p>

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<p>alright, so the change won't negatively affect my chances and my original scores were high enough to not keep me out? Cuz my dad thinks that my "image" will change in the eyes of the college and that they will start questioning my intellect, i'm just wondering if that was the case..</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>It is my understanding that people that work in the admissions office (and have 0 input in admissions) get all the info you send, and enter the relevant data (highest SAT I + 2 highest SAT IIs, recalculated GPA, rank, etc.) to the file that is passed on to the admission officers that judge your application. So it really does not matter how many times you take the tests, or how many sub-optimal scores you get.</p>

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<p>nngmm...are you sure that the admissions officers
only see the best scores???
i am so worried because my math II december score
went down!!!</p>

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<p>i've heard the same thing (that they only look at your best scores)</p>

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<p>do you mean "look at" as in "think about"
or "look at" as in "see"??</p>

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<p>No, I am not sure, but that's what I heard, and it makes a lot of sense for a school that gets 20,000+ apps...</p>