<p>Great advice! I would just like to add that Stanford has great interest in people who are very skilled at math. So if you qualified for USAMO or higher, you have a great chance at getting accepted (assuming your grades and test scores are decent)</p>
<p>Does Stanford consider your ethnicity?
Also, my GPA and SAT score aren’t that high, but I’m ranked top 10 in California for an instrument. What are my chances of getting into Stanford?</p>
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Would recommend reading the “Does Stanford practice Affirmative Action” answer.</p>
<p>And you’re going to have to give us a little bit more than “top 10 instrument player in Cali” for us to chance you going into Stanford. I would suggest making a Chance thread, but personally, Stanford has holistic review so everything on your application is considered. And Admissions is usually a crapshoot anyway; it’s hard to predict. CC chancing you isn’t a definite indicator of whether or not you’ll get in.</p>
<p>Talking about the random nature of admission. Someone in my high school got in. It surprised everyone including himself. His own word “why me?” Nothing about him really that stands out to the very top. His own guess-“could be one of my grand parents’ native Hawaiian status”. Similar case happened in my friend’s prestigious private high school. Someone not really standing out in anyway got in Harvard and made everyone guessing why.</p>
<p>I really want to show my passion for music. Other than winning competitions, what else should i do? I play the cello. Should i go and do a live audition?
In other words how do i show my passion for music?</p>