Give me chances....just to blow off some steam and anxiety

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>-GA resident (Is GA underrepresented @ Stanford?)
-Male
-Ethnicity: mixed Hispanic (Spanish) and Asian (Filipino)
-UW GPA: 3.94ish-may go down slightly as a result of a B in AP Stats
-Weighted GPA: 4.14 (will go up by the end of the semester)
-school doesn't rank, but I got an award for being the junior with the highest weighted GPA, meaning I'm a would-be valedictorian.</p>

<p>SAT I's
Math: 800
CR: 730
Writing:710</p>

<p>SAT II's
Math II: 800
Chem: 720
U.S. History: 710</p>

<p>AP scores:
US Gov and Politics: 5
APUSH: 5
AP Chem: 5
AP Eng. Lang: 5</p>

<p>Senior Load-likely grades
1. AP Calculus BC: A
2. AP Statistics: B (My teacher gives us test questions on stuff that we didn't learn in class and/or isn't in our textbook. )
3. AP Biology: A
4. AP Physics: A
5. H British Literature: A
6. Economics (I wish my school offered AP.): A</p>

<p>-school doesn't offer honors classes, but mentions "due to the rigorous curriculum of the school, no classes are designated as honors" in school description.</p>

<p>My only other B's have been graphic design freshman year, AP Gov last year(will a 5 on the exam atone for this), and a mandatory composition class at our school this summer? I got straight A's junior year.</p>

<p>-will mention Economics, Mathematics, and Chemistry respectively as my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice majors. I want to be an investment banker or hedge fund manager when I grow up.</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Boy Scouts
-Eagle Scout. My project was building benches, pressure-washing old ones, and putting sealant.
-Senior Patrol Leader during 10th grade, Patrol Leader during 9th
-broke a national record for hiking. I hiked the Bartram Trail (100 miles/5 days, has a lot of elevation): honored by Governor Sonny Purdue and national head of boy scouts for this feat
-LOTS of community service projects
-raised money for inner-city kids to buy scout uniforms
-Philmont Summer 2010-completed trek 34, the hardest trek Philmont has to offer (Only 5 crews this entire summer out of the 1000+ that come to Philmont did trek 34).</p>

<p>Tennis (all 4 years)
-private lesons
-varsity tennis</p>

<p>Academic Quiz Bowl team (10-12)</p>

<p>I founded and am president of our school's food critic club. We go to restaurants about once a month and write critiques about them, which are published in the school newspaper. I'm trying to see if we can get published in the Zagat Survey. </p>

<p>Trumpet
-Superior Rating (9,10,11) at Solo Ensemble Festival
-Community Jazz Band (9-12)
-GISA all-select band member (11th grade) (top band members of private schools in GA)
-played for church on Sundays
-invited to play at school's open house 10th grade</p>

<p>Piano for 11 years
-invited to play at several concerts</p>

<p>Duke TIP summer program (summers after 9th and 10th grade, I respectively studied macroecon. and robotics)</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
-Georgia Certificate of Merit
-Phi Beta Kappa Award (given to Junior with the highest weighted GPA in class)
-National Merit Semifinalist </p>

<p>I think my essays are pretty damn good.</p>

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<p>Your stats look really good, but who knows at the end of the day? It’s a total crapshoot. What I do think is that you look really unique on paper, which is something I think all schools like. I got in with a 2060, and there are people that haven’t gotten in with much higher SAT scores. It’s impossible to say. At any rate, I think we’ll all wind up somewhere, and wherever we wind up, it’ll be much, much better than high school.
At any rate, you look pretty good, so I think you have a good chance. =]</p>

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<p>You’ve posted the same chance thread in the Chances forum and in many of the same top schools’ forums… Relax. Seriously, there’s nothing you can do about it now, and posters’ predictions/reassurances don’t mean anything regarding the pending admissions decisions from the schools you applied to. You have a reasonable chance as the above poster pointed out, and that’s all anyone can really tell you.</p>

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<p>Please forgive me for saying “at any rate” twice. I think I may have come off a little cavalier in my first post: I, as well as anyone else who has applied to college, know exactly what you’re going through in terms of nervousness and dread. I know this isn’t going to help, but just take a deep breath and realize that you’re going to get in somewhere, and that place is the place that you were supposed to wind up (or, maybe not; you can always transfer). Realize that by this time next year you’re going to have made a ton of awesome friends and have had some of the best times experiences of your life, and you’ll only be one semester in.
Great, now I feel condescending. Sorry. =(</p>

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<p>real impressive stats/ec’s; probably one of the best i’ve seen recently in a chance thread. i think you’ve got a great chance.</p>

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<p>Is GA underrepresented at Stanford? Just curious.</p>