<p>He has a good chance considering his grades are outstanding but the point that I am trying to make is that Stanford would rather see someone with good grades and perhaps two strong ECs where the candidate shows leadership and dedication instead of 7 or 8 activities where basically all he does is just shows up and follows directions. The editor thing sounds great. Perhaps he could focus on that more and make a bigger impact with it. Like I said before there will be MANY students that apply who have perfect SATs and tons of APs and honors classes and academic awards. But Stanford doesn’t want a whole freshman class of 4.0ers so what’s going to make your friend stand out from all of the other brainiacs?</p>
<p>Your friend is NOT in a bad situation here. He sounds really amazing and has better academics than I had when I applied to Stanford. He could TOTALLY make it in. But what you need to know is that Stanford would rather have a 3.6er who started an outreach program in his community and who’s the Captain of his debate team over a 4.0er with no serious commitments (exaggeration here, not necessarily your friends situation). I’m just stating something that appears to be the weakness in his application.</p>