New member, Chance for Stanford + others please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chance for Stanford (1st choice), Ivys excluding HYP because I have no chance, Georgetown (Sister went there), Vandy, WashU, Berkeley</p>

<p>Indian Male (anti hook yay) not requesting financial aid</p>

<p>SAT: 800 R 790 M 680 W with 8 essay (1590/2270) ACT taking later
Subject Tests: Taking Chem, Math II, and US in October and November (expecting 700-800). Signing up for November subject tests before I get my results back so I can retake any of the ones I need to or cancel the registration if I did well.</p>

<p>GPA UW: 4.00 GPA W: 4.5957 Ranked 7 out of 337 Competitive Public Florida</p>

<p>Course List (Pretty much most rigorous possible)
Freshmen year
Pre-IB English
Pre-IB Geometry
Pre-IB Biology
Drafting 1
AP Euro
Pre-IB Spanish II
Commercial Art I</p>

<p>Sophomore year
Pre-IB English II
Math Analysis (precalc with a funny name, 4.5 weight)
Algebra II through online school so I could take precalc
Physics 1 Honors
Pre-IB Chemistry
TV Production 1
AP Government
Pre-IB Spanish III</p>

<p>Junior year
IB Psychology
AP Calc AB
IB Chemistry 2
APUSH
IB Spanish IV
AP Stat
IB English III</p>

<p>Senior Year (Probably up there for highest course load at school since I’m taking those online classes and I made my elective AP Environmental instead of like TV Pro)
AP Calc BC
IB Chemistry 3
AP Environmental Science
IB English IV
Theory of Knowledge (IB class 5.0)
History of Americas (IB class 5.0)
Non credit study hall
AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics through online school</p>

<p>A’s in everything so far.</p>

<p>AP Test Scoring </p>

<p>AP Euro – 4 AP Government – 5 AP Lang – 4 AP Calc AB – 5 AP Stat – 5 AP Psych – 5 APUSH – 4<br>
IB Tests</p>

<p>IB Psych – 6 IB-Spanish - 6</p>

<p>Extra Curricular/Other stuff</p>

<p>Honor Societies – Math, Science (Treasurer), English, Spanish, Normal,
National Society of High School Scholars – Some random non school thing I got in 9th grade and it’s continuous forever I guess</p>

<p>National Merit Semifinalist
AP Scholar with Distinction
Brown Environmental Leadership Camp (10th summer)
Lead America Camp at Stanford (11th summer)
EPGY Robotics Camp at Stanford (9th summer)
Future Problem Solving (10-12) Prob co-pres this year. Went to State Competition</p>

<p>High Q (trivia based competitive club) – 9-12, Treasurer 11th, maybe something higher this year. JV and Varsity captains at points while on each team. Won district competition last year and second place whatever came after that.</p>

<p>Interact Club – 9-12
Stock Market Simulation Club – New club this year probably going to be Vice Pres
Ultimate Frisbee Club – 12th Treasurer</p>

<p>JV Soccer and Tennis in 10th grade
Played Piano for 11 years although I haven’t done any competitive stuff with it</p>

<p>Work Experience – Worked in a hospital office for about 25 combined hours over the past summer </p>

<p>Volunteering
420 hours at a Hindu Heritage Summer Camp in NY. Counselor for last 2 years. Attended for 2 years before that.</p>

<p>64 hours as counselor at a day camp version of the above camp that was brought locally to my town when I was younger.</p>

<p>Lincolnville Project Leader – A project for increasing cultural awareness in a poor area of my city.</p>

<p>IB Beach Cleanup Mile Leader
15 hrs Hispanic Awareness Festival
Did Habitat for Humanity once for about 10 hours
Volunteered at the Guana Reserve National Estuaries Day thing. Only about 6-7 hours there though.</p>

<p>Essay – I’m not an amazing writer but I think I have a good topic and if I have lots of time I can churn out a great essay
Recs – 1 amazing-really amazing, 1 good, IB Counselor – Really amazing
I’ll probably add some other small stuff on the real app but this is anything important.
Thanks for any input!</p>

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<p>“Chance for Stanford (1st choice), Ivys excluding HYP because I have no chance”</p>

<p>If you are excluding HYP because “you have no chance”, your chance of acceptance to Stanford is about the same as the top-tier Ivy schools.</p>

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<p>Okay maybe no chance was a bit too strong but I don’t really feel inclined to apply to those 3 because the other ones are more reasonable. I feel as if I have a slightly better chance for Stanford because I’ve sent a lot of stuff there already and I’ve done stuff there a couple times. I also might do ED there.</p>

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<p>Stanford does SCEA and not ED. Stanford is possible but not likely (which is the case for most applicants). Your class rank puts you at a slight disadvantage, along with your SAT and AP scores. Your EC’s lack some distinction as well. I’m not sure I’d apply early to Stanford if one of the other schools on your list is a close second. </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Okay, I guess that’s the brutal truth although I don’t see anything too terrible about my SAT and APs. Does anyone have an opinion on anything other than Stanford like Ivys like Brown, Duke and whatnot and the other stuff I listed?</p>

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<p>Bump? Over 100 views and only a perspective on one school?</p>