Is It Even Worth Applying - I'm so lost

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Hey, all. This is my first time doing a “chance me” (or whatever you’d call this), so please bare with me.

Intended Major: Economics

I was wondering if it’s even worth applying to Stanford RD. Here are my stats:

• 35 ACT: 36E, 34M, 35R, 35S, 11/12 essay
• 3.8 UW GPA (including an embarrassing 85/B in Honors Pre-Cal my sophomore year, yikes)
• My class rank is right at top 3%.
• 11 APs (my school offers like 14)
• 3 college classes - including Calculus 3 - recieved As in all of them
• Lettered in soccer for three years. However, I didn’t play my senior year, for time reasons.
• Lettered in tennis for one year. Tried out as a joke my junior year, so I’ll probably just omit tennis as a whole.
• I won’t name my main EC, for confidentiality purposes, but it’s a big student organization. I hold a very large leadership role. I have won numerous awards, including placing second at the International competition.
• Attended a fairly prestigious summer entrepreneurship program. Acceptance rate was 12% and 30 countries were represented. I know two of the seniors that were in the program with me got into Stanford REA.
• Founded a club and served on the county board for that club
• In the typical honor society stuff
• No major hooks
• My teacher recs aren’t anything to kill for. My supplement recommendation, however, is pretty solid.

I don’t even know if it’s worth applying. $90 is a lot. What do you think? Thanks!

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You’re a senior, yes?
Sure, why not apply? You have the stats that Stanford wants. No reason why you shouldn’t apply. (while understanding that you’re likely not to get in because nobody gets in. But, as the cliche says, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.)

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@SouthernHope yes, I’m a senior. I would normally go for it, but I was just straight denied by my dream school, which shocked me a bit (was expecting a defer at the worst), so that really killed my confidence. $90 is a lot of money, but I’ll probably apply. I just see a lot of Stanford admits with a ton of research, perfect GPAs, etc.

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@TestWtfAmIDoing I see many students with less than awesome hard stats (as well as kids with awesome hard stats) get into Stanford REA, so it goes both ways.