Did you come here to assess your chances at UCB or Stanford or to argue? I recruit for my college whose admit rate is only slightly higher than Stanford. I tell students/parents that IF they are, at this moment, one of the handful of top students in their grade, known by the faculty and principal, then they MIGHT be a viable applicant. “I decided not to take AP classes” “My workload is already tremendous” Uh- ok.
Do
what
you
want.