East coast kid, trying to get out to Cali

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Hi all, just wondering about my chances RD, any suggestions would be helpful. thanks.</p>

<p>Math- 800
Reading-710
Writing-760</p>

<p>SAT II's
Math IIc- 800
US History- 800</p>

<p>Top 30 school in NJ (send about 4-6 ivies a year), 300 kids in my grade- no ranking
GPA Weighted- 94.234 (I know...) but there is a huge upward curve.
Fr- 89
so- 94
jr- 98</p>

<p>AP's
Macro- 5
Micro-5
US gov- 5
comp gov- 4
Euro-5
Composition- 4
My school doesn't offer AP's to sophomores, so all of the above are from junior year. Also, the only ones i took in school as part of a class were Composition, and Euro- all the others were not offered so I self studied. </p>

<p>Senior year-
AP Spanish, AP Calc BC, AP Biology, AP US History, AP Literature</p>

<p>Freshman year- 2 B's (Spanish, math)- does freshman year count?
Sophomore- All A's</p>

<p>EC's:
Freshman:
JV Baseball (season ending injury in my first V game)</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Captian of DECA Quiz Bowl team and Consumer Bowl Team- South Jersey Champions in my first year (Sophomore)
DECA Quiz Bowl- 6th in state
DECA- 1st in the state International Business Plan
DECA- fourth in the state E-Commerce
70 hourse community service
JV and V baseball- knee injury in county championship- wasn't allowed any more baseball</p>

<p>Junior year-
DECA VP- chapter of over 150 kids
DECA- 1st in state marketing management
DECA- 1st in state quiz bowl (second year as captain)
DECA- 1st in state International Business Plan (defended my title)
DECA- 1st place in international competition International Business Plan- officially became #1 in the world.
Consumer Bowl- southern jersey champions (captain)
50 hours community service
560 hours working at a bank- accounting, loans, and certified teller</p>

<p>Senior year-
Same as last year, im out to defend my titles. </p>

<p>Also- last summer i worked at a hedge fund in Greenwich, CT. Awesome experience</p>

<p>sorry, i know its long. btw, my school has never sent anyone to Stanford(but only one has applied in the last four years- everybody loves the north east too much). thanks</p>

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<p>cool- you did DECA too. as a DECA member, i bow down to your accomplishments- awesome job. im only a junior who doesnt really know much about stanford but those stats look really good. also, i dont think stanford looks at frosh grades, is that true?
Also- you should definitely consider wharton at upenn- best undergrad biz school.</p>

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<p>I have no clue about your chances, but, no, Stanford does not look at freshman grades very much.</p>

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<p>You're lucky that your 89 was freshman year, since Stanford doesn't consider that year. You're also lucky in that I have seen Math SAT scores correlate well with admission at Stanford (if you doubt me, look at last year's Stanford College Confidential wiki with stats and acceptances). Your #1s at state and national level (and general commitment) in DECA should help you. I think you have decent chances, actually.</p>

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<p>nice, that helps. and twistedlogic, im also applying to Wharton, thanks for your advice, have a good DECA season, maybe ill see you at ICDC in Dallas?</p>