Please chance a super asian female from Arizona for Stanford

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<p>SAT I:</p>

<p>Math: 740
Writing: 800
Critical Reading: 750
COMPOSITE: 2290</p>

<p>SAT II:</p>

<p>US History: 760
Math II: 800
Physics: 800
COMPOSITE: 2360</p>

<p>AP Scores: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5</p>

<p>GPA: 4.8, UW: 4.00
Class rank: 4/490</p>

<p>State: AZ
Gender: F
Race: Asian(Japanese/Korean)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Founder and President of Robotics Club (9,10,11,12)
-Vice President of Key Club (10,11,12)
-Gymnastics (9,10,11,12)
-Cheerleading Varsity (9,10,11,12)
-Math and Physics Tutor (9,10,11,12)
-Mu Alpha Theta (9,10,11,12)</p>

<p>Jobs:
I was a video director/filmographer/editor for a couple of months.</p>

<p>Intended Major: Electrical Engineering</p>

<p>Senior year courses: all APs, 11 AP courses total throughout high school, also took Calculus II</p>

<p>Awards: AP scholar with distinction, student of the month, some excellency awards from my school, Varsity Letter for cheerleading</p>

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<p>Looks pretty good. Good SAT and subject test scores - can’t do much more there. Nothing super outstanding in the ECs, but that doesn’t matter too much as long as you convey your passion.</p>

<p>Can’t do much to change your application at this point, but you seem to have done what you could. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thank you. I know that Stanford is very hard to get into, and I wish you all luck.</p>

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<p>Your stats look fine; ECs are decent (unless you did really well in Gymnastics); but honestly, it’s all up to your Essays and showing passion and personality; good luck</p>

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<p>Again? You’re clearly REALLY smart. And I think you have great ECs…cheerleading, gymnastics, etc. take a LOT of committment.</p>

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<p>Thank you. No, I am not that great at gymnastics. I never actually went through the levels, but trained by myself sort of. And it was mostly just the beam and floor tumbling. I never did vault or bars. I’m not trying to get recruited. I did gymnastics mainly to learn skills(safely) for cheerleading.</p>

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<p>Very nice chances. I do think that Stanford tends to judge more heavily on the subjective stuff, like essays, so do all you can to make sure they’re top-notch. Have them reviewed by us CC frequenters if you like! :)</p>

<p>[Go Asians!]</p>

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<p>I think I chanced you somewhere else but you do have a great chance. Woohoo Asians!</p>

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<p>As I said in your Upenn thread, you have a “good” shot. Though please know that good is very relative to others. Take a look at the Stanford Results threads over the last couple of years. Unhooked asians and whites get slaughtered every year there. Stanford just has a strange admissions process in my opinion. So, while you have a better chance than most, I would highly advise you to not bank of Stanford. (I would tell absolutely ANYONE else the same thing).</p>

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<p>Yeah, you are above average for sure, but I wouldn’t take chance threads very seriously; the deciding factor in the admissions process – your essays-- is something we can’t see, and something we can’t make an accurate judgement without. </p>

<p>Take it with a grain of salt; my chancers didn’t think too highly of me, but I guess Stanford didn’t think so.</p>

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<p>That film director thing sounds pretty cool.
Just a note though, from what I saw on the EA thread, Stanford didn’t really care about academics at all, and weighed ECs WAY more. They seemed to really pay attention if you had one particular thing that you were really passionate about and really committed to. The only time that I saw “well-rounded” work on the EA results thread was when the person was just really freaking amazing overall. So it would be to your advantage to focus your essays and app and stuff around just a few things.
(and adding to Rolandic’s comment, the problem with CC chance threads is that we tend to weigh grades and test scores more than colleges do)
I’d say you have as much of a chance as anyone else :slight_smile: Good luck!</p>

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<p>diamonds, the Stanford Dollies need to fill vacancies just like every other team on campus and not many girls will have your combination of top academics and cheerleading. It’s an unusual combination at a top school-and a non-stereotypical Asian EC as well. And multi-cultural too! So I think your shot is a lot better than most. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Honestly, this is an example of the kind of dubious advice that makes these forums less valuable than they might be. We have an REA admittee here who has superb and varied academic credentials and rather minimal ECs. He is not an URM, nor a legacy, nor does he have any “hooks” other than his abilities. No one here actually believes that Stanford doesn’t “really care about academics at all”, do they?? That is an absurd conclusion to reach. Like all the most selective schools, Stanford requires a certain demostrated level of academic ability, then looks for something extra. The “extra” can take many forms; it needn’t be an extensive list of “ECs”.</p>

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<p>I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to imply that she needed an extensive list of ECs, I was just advising her to focus her passion on one or two rather than trying to be well-rounded. In fact, I argued against the “extensive list of ECs” strategy, NB: “They seemed to really pay attention if you had one particular thing that you were really passionate about and really committed to. The only time that I saw “well-rounded” work on the EA results thread was when the person was just really freaking amazing overall.”
Also, I don’t see how your one example of a super-academic minimal-EC acceptee is more credible than the EA Stanford results thread on average? But again, just my opinion and the conclusion I drew from what I observed, take it with a (large) grain of salt. And you can dig up the results thread and make your own conclusions too, I certainly don’t want to imply that my conclusions are any better than yours.</p>

<p>(and clearly, she reaches the “certain demonstrated level of academic ability”, I don’t think that’s a concern :))</p>

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<p>you should be fine. i think stanford puts sooo much weight on essays/ec’s. i applied SCEA to Stanford and got deferred, i was really shocked i didn’t get rejected because i had awful SAT scores. but my essays were really solid, so were my EC’s, and it was obvious how it was my dream school. i think you have a good shot, sell yourself in the essays!</p>

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<p>Haha I’m an asian female from Arizona who applied to Stanford too.
Your stats are definitely better than mine. Good luck! I’d say you have a good shot at Stanford.</p>

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<p>^Thanks. Good luck to you too :)</p>

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<p>The typical strong Northeast-Asian applicant. Excellent stats, strong commitments into E.Cs, demonstrated leadership, and ambitious personality.
You got about as much chance as the token-Black student/ star athlete at your high school.</p>