My Favorite Peeps- Plz Rate Chances!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So here I am...My dream school is Stanford (I'm applying EA), also UCLA, Berkeley, Princeton, Wash U in St. Louis, Tulane, Rice, Williams, and Amherst</p>

<p>Female, White/Asian, Public School, New Mexico
SAT: 2090
SAT II's:
History: 630
Spanish: 550
Math II: 650
(may retake in October)
4.0 GPA
10/700 Rank
Probably good recs and pretty good essays
2 APs junior year, awaiting scores, senior year schedule will have 5 APs</p>

<p>ECs:
Cross country (freshman year)
Piano for 9 years, but no awards or ranking
Choir freshman and sophomore year
Key Club:
VP soph and junior year
#1 fundraiser in state junior year
President senior year
NHS Junior year, secretary senior year
VP of National Art Honor Society junior year, will be prez senior year</p>

<p>I have started volunteering with my home city (about 5 hrs/week), but have only been doing this since second semester of junior year, some over the summer, and probably into senior year- will this look like I just started to look good on the resume? (I kinda did...lol)</p>

<p>Worked at dad's lawfirm for 2 summers, mostly filing paperwork and such</p>

<p>Do I have no chance, below-avg, average, above average, or great chance at each school? Where else should I be looking? Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>bump (10 char)</p>

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<p>anyone??????</p>

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<p>stanforddreamerz:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>You'd get in to Tulane, but I don't know about the rest. You don't really have anything outstanding to get you into the ivies, and Wash. U and Stanford are hyper competitive. You might be able to get into Rice, because you're out of state. And really good essays would help at Williams & Amherst.</p>

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<p>ED at WUSTL will get u in instead of waitlisted :)</p>

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<p>so no real chance at Stanford? Would I be better off EA or RD?</p>

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<p>no chance at stanford or berkeley. maybe UCLA.</p>

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<p>I'd go EA to Stanford, which might you give you an outside shot, and worst case, they would just defer you back to regular admissions.</p>

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<p>uhh team_venture, worst case would not be a deferral at Stanford. Stanford doesn't defer that many people, and rejects many during EA. It's hard to say if Stanford SCEA will help you because even though the acceptance rate is higher (18-19%), the pool tends to be self-selecting.</p>

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<p>oh, my apologies. I was basing my recommendation on the EA policy of a few other schools. I'd still apply EA to Stanford over RD.</p>

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<p>Study, and retake your SATs. I was at 2070 as of the October test....and eventually rose it to a 2270. </p>

<p>Good luck...it's hard work, but it will determine the rest of your life. Only 6 months of hell and you're done with the process forever! hurray.</p>

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<p>Ok, thanks for the input. I will try to retake the SAT and maybe SAT II's if I can, but assuming the scores don't change that much, are my chances pretty much shot?</p>

<p>Also, I forgot to add originally, I have a sister who's a sophomore at Stanford and a grandfather who went there. Will that help at all? And I'm going on a People to People trip this summer and went on a trip with my aunt and uncle last summer to latin america where we worked for two weeks building homes for the needy there (they run the organization). I know those aren't too stellar, but if I made them into good essays could they maybe be a hook?</p>

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<p>are you going to the Key Club International Convention?</p>

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<p>Take the ACT in September after prepping, THEN apply to Stanford ED. PLEASE DO IT! I really think you'd be helped.</p>

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<p>No on the Key Club thing. And as for the ACT, I haven't prepped at ALL and I've never taken it, so I'm worried I'd be putting my time in the wrong place.</p>

<p>What about my above post, would those things increase my chances?</p>

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<p>naw...don't be scared about the ACT...what have you got to lose? just take it,honestly. i took all 3 of my SAT2s without even knowing the formats and got 800s on them...that's not boasting about me. most tests have similar formats so the newness aint an issue.</p>

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<p>Here's my realistic proposal:</p>

<p>1) Study and prep for the SAT. I used grammatix.com's prep book and I highly recommend it.</p>

<p>2) Take the ACT. Don't spend time studying for it, but make sure you know how the test works. You don't want to divert too much time from the SAT prep.</p>

<p>I did very little prep for the ACT, and a good amount for the SAT. I think the SAT prep carried over to the ACT (got a 34).</p>

<p>All that you need to do is remind yourself that your future is at stake for motivation when studying this summer.</p>

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<p>any input on impact on chances of legacy/summer programs as mentioned in my above post?</p>

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<p>bump........</p>