EA/ED Chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>OK, do I have enough of a chance for it to be worht applying EA/ED? Here's my stats:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9 Weighted, 3.7 unweighteed
By year:
summer school in between 8th and 9th grade: 3.0 (computer careers, not college prep)
9th 3.66 (english, spanish 2, algebra 2, drawing, PE, world cultures)
10th 4.0 (english 2 honors, biology, geometry, journalism, spanish 3)
11th 4.5 (english 3 ap, chemistry, trig, spanish 4 ap, advanced journalism, ap us history)
12th (planned: american institutions, english 4 honors, ap statistics, advanced journalism, physics)</p>

<p>class rank: low 20s out of 414</p>

<p>SAT: 2230, 710 math, 720 reading, 800 writing
ACT: 33 composite, 7 writing (writers block sucks)</p>

<p>ECs: president of progressive club for 2 years, editor of school paper senior year and assistant editor junior year, member of interact (community service) club, 9 years karate (brown belt), 10 years acting, 9 years dancing (hip hop). </p>

<p>White male nonreligious resident of california.</p>

<p>And Stanford doesn't look at freshman year, correct? So then I'd have a 4.25 weighted and a 3.9 unweighted? That'll certainly be a boost. But is it still way out of my league?</p>

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<p>u have a shot. Its a reach but u have a shot</p>

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<p>Correct, Stanford doesn't count freshman grades and they use unweighted grades (although they do look at difficulty of courses). Are you taking/have you taken any AP tests? Good scores on those will help you. Also, Stanford recommends taking two Sat subject tests: Math IIC and another of your choice. You should definitely do those. I'd say your stats place you a bit below average in the Stanford EA applicant pool. </p>

<p>Your activities look pretty good. If you have awards, especially state-level ones, that would boost your chances. Being a California resident and non-asian helps you as well. You do have a chance, but you'll need incredible essays that explain your activites and interests, as well as great recommendations that can help make up for your GPA and rank.</p>

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<p>I'd say your chances are very slim and Stanford, or any other elite college for that matter, is a significant reach.</p>

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<p>retake the ACT and get a perfect (which it seems you can do). that will help a lot</p>

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<p>I do have a couple of awards, but nothing at the state level. My journalism work has won a couple of awards, and so has the paper in general, but that's on a regional level. I've gotten a two awards at karate tournaments, but again, they were local tournaments. I should have a damn good recomendation (I'm extremely close with my AP english Language teacher), and a pretty good essay. I took 3 ap tests last year, spanish, english language, and us history, but I have yet to see how I did on them.</p>

<p>Oh, I nearly forgot. I just got back my grades on my sat subjects. I got 690 Math 1 and 740 Spanish. I'm planning on taking English Lit and Math 2 next fall. </p>

<p>Thanks, all, for the honest evaluations.</p>