<p>Thanks for taking the time to chance me guys~</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Location: Chicago, IL
High School: Public + Semi - Competitive</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.85 (W) [Huge upward trend since freshmen year (2.72 to current)]
Class Rank: Top 10%
Class Size: 305</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT I: 2000
ACT: 32
AP Biology: 4
AP USH: 5
AP French IV: 4
AP Physics B: 4</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Soccer: 4 years (Varsity 3 years)
Volleyball: 4 years (Varsity 2 years)
Volunteer service: At a hospital - 750 hours+
Jobs: Held one at target since freshmen year</p>
<p>Teacher/Principal Recs: Should be very good (the teachers love me)
Essays: Excellent (plan on writing about life changing experiences and how i overcame my disability)</p>
<p>I am aiming to do pre - med and continue onto medical school in Standford.
I can speak 4 different languages; Polish, French, English, and Sign Language.
I am moderately hearing disabled. </p>
<p>*Also my mom has a brother who's a CEO in Standford and is the head of the department of dermatology there. </p>
<p>^I know a kid who was a double legacy, PLUS 2 uncles, and 3 brothers. Rejected. Your score aren't high enough for out of state to get you considered. Stanford rejects Harvard's jewels.</p>
<p>Your ACT scores translate to an SAT score of 2160-2210. That helps a little.</p>
<p>What is your GPA excluding freshman year? Stanford recalculates GPA and doesn't use 9th grade grades. That also helps, in your case. </p>
<p>Unless you are really, really amazing at soccer and/or volleyball (I mean, much better than you appear to be), your ECs are quite weak. </p>
<p>And your essay had better be truly, unbelievably phenomenal if you're going to write it about "life changing experiences and how you overcame your disability." I'm afraid that's a highly unoriginal essay topic. </p>
<p>Are you going to play up your language abilities? It's unusual to be able to speak so many languages. If it's something that means a lot to you, then it'd be a good thing to highlight it. Do you dedicate outside-of-school hours to language learning? Do/have you used your language abilities--travel, volunteering, etc.? </p>
<p>I don't think your uncle's connection will help much. But who knows. If he knows you well he can write a recommendation for you that might be influential, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.</p>
<p>As far as chances... I think you'd need a lot of luck to get into Stanford.</p>
<p>Thanks guys!
I appreciate some of your comments unlike the unkind ones 'Firefox' wrote.
However, what other colleges could you guys recommend that i should take a look at and/or maybe apply too?</p>
<p>nope...most privates don't care about instate..however, if you come from a smaller midwestern state, it may help you.</p>
<p>if you want to stay in illinois, you've got NU and U Chicago...
do you want to stay on the west coast? have you looked into the UCs or the claremont schools?</p>
<p>even the most qualified people get rejected from stanford, so make sure that you have plenty of safety/match schools under your belt. you don't want to be scrambling come december.</p>
<p>Fred: I had never heard anything of the sort until recently. I presume they accept a greater number of Californians than anybody else, but I also presume that it's because Californians apply in greater numbers than anybody else. It says on College Board that geographical residence as an admission factor is "considered" (not important), but I would be quicker to guess that they'd want geographic diversity, rather than geographic homogeneity.</p>
<p>Stanford recently announced that it will be reducing the % from California. They were once a regional school and it has taken years and a directive from on high to finally decide to not be CA dominent.</p>
<p>But I think a lot of what makes Stanford unique from HYP and the like is it's distinctly west-coast attitude, which comes from having a lot of Californian students... :(</p>