<p>Stanford's my first choice, but I've heard that the applicant pool is WAY tougher if you apply EA. I don't know if that's true, that's just what i've heard. Anyway, I guess I'll get right to it... Here's my stats, let me know what your opinion is on whether or not you think I'd have a shot going EA, or just applying regular deadline.</p>
<p>SAT/ACT: 2120 SAT, 33 ACT (first try for both)</p>
<p>class rank: 6th out of 350</p>
<p>GPA: 4.42 weighted, [one B+ in HS, all the rest A's (no A-'s, only A's and A+'s)]</p>
<p>Course Load: will finish HS with 10 AP's, basically hardest possible course load</p>
<p>AP's: 5's on all four AP tests so far, AP Scholar with Honor</p>
<p>EC:
4 year member, 3 year officer, and current President of Future Business Leaders of America
Senior Class Officer
VP of French Honors Society
Secretary of Key Club
Member of NHS
French Club and Math Club member
roughly 100 volunteer hours, with Key Club and Habitat for Humanity
Contributor and Syndicated Writer for big sports website Bleacherreport.com
3 years of rec baseball and basketball while in HS</p>
<p>Awards:
attended Governor's foreign Language Academy for French in VA in summer 2010 (competitive/prestigious program)
National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist
tons of various yearly school subject awards (about a dozen?)</p>
<p>Major Interest for College: Civil Engineering</p>
<p>Oh, and another thing. I'll be taking the SAT and ACT again before the regular deadline (but NOT before the early deadline because I'm taking subject tests in October), and I'm pretty confident that I could at least land in the high 2200's on the SAT (i got 230 on the PSAT), and maybe get a 34 or 35 on the ACT (if I could just do better on the stupid Science, haha). </p>
<p>Other schools I'm interested in are Rice, Vanderbilt, Duke, WUStL, and UVA (it's in state), roughly in that order. So if you don't think I've got any real chance at Stanford, what do you think of my shot at those others?</p>