<p>I'm really considering Stanford SCEA (major: engineering or maybe econ?) but scores aren't everything....so if you could chance me, that'd be superawesome. I don't have a superlong list of EC's, but yeah...</p>
<p>Asian female, school is sorta competitive (sends a few people to top schools every year)</p>
<p>SAT: 2360 (780 CR/780 M/800 W)
SAT II's: 770 Math IIC, 790 World History, 690 Chem (def. retaking that one in the fall)
GPA: 4.0 UW/4.8 W
Rank: 1/300-ish</p>
<p>Still waiting for APs, but should be mostly 5's with a few 4's (5 in AP gov as soph, took 7 this year)</p>
<p>ECs:
Young Democrats president
Model UN president
Mock Trial (witness)
Math Team co-capt</p>
<p>Last summer I spent about 100 hrs volunteering on my county's local county executive campaign...the candidate won, w00t. This summer I am volunteering at the Red Cross, hopefully I can organize a big fundraiser for them in the fall. I got elected Senator at Girls State so I'm moving onto Girls Nation.</p>
<p>I do digital photography on my own and it's kind of a business I guess? I take people's senior portraits...Pretty good money, and I love doing the work. :)</p>
<p>When I apply, I want to send in a portfolio of photography and traditional art...I did the studio art AP exam, hopefully I got a 5 on that. <em>knocks on wood</em></p>
<p>CHANCE ME! I'm trying to decide between SCEA Stanford and EA MIT, because I'm looking to do engineering (though not willing to do Caltech)</p>
<p>I know nothing about Stanford but my nephew applied to both Stanford and MIT this past application year and was rejected by both. His Stats:</p>
<p>SAT 2390 (800/790/800) - one and only testing
ACT 34 - took once as a sophomore (for fun!)
Full IB Diploma
Presidential Scholar Semifinalist
President of some H.S. groups
some pretty unusual EC's - working with the elderly, a hall of fame in his home town, veterans, etc. - mentoring gifted children</p>
<p>It is hard to figure out what they want - just make yourself as unique as you can.</p>
<p>As said, write good essays and make sure to show a passion/focus for something -- in your case, photography and the like. Also, I would recommend not retaking that chem score -- your other two scores are awesome, and a 690 is still pretty damn good. Restudying it just to get a slightly higher score (even if it is 750+) won't make a difference and will probably just portray you as some overachieving, overly meticulous person who just wants to impress adcoms.</p>
<p>don't bother retaking chem sat II because stanford only requires 2 and they will only look at your top two. your sat scores excellent. better to focus your time on essays, etc.
i'd say you have a very high chance of getting in scea</p>
<p>your stats are good enough that they won't hold you back... all that's left is for you to demonstrate that there is a REAL person behind all those scores and everything... show passion and personality in your app (it's especially difficult with stanford b/c there's no interview) and you'll be fine....
remember that you're being evaluated by a holistic assessment, so your academic stats can only matter so much in the big picture... </p>
<p>not that it makes everything i say an incontrovertible truth, but i got in so i might have an idea :)</p>
<p>if you want to do engineering retake chem. it's your only science sat II-sure maybe they only use top 2, but obviously they see that one-a computer isn't analyzing score reports for them.</p>