<p>@Aegise, you said that you submitted a supplement for visual arts? What is your medium? How long have you been interested in art? Have you checked out the D school??! On the off chance that we are both accepted, I would be D-lighted to take classes there with you </p>
<p>@allofyoumusicpeople
You guys rock. I actually play guitar and sing. I can also sing in this high pitched squeaky voice that sounds like Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks. So if I don’t get in to Stanford, I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.</p>
<p>I don’t believe in the concept of competitive music, so the only musical “awards” I have were a result of required competitions with my school’s jazz band. Also, I’m sure that I could have made my arts supplement far better than it turned out if I had time to record new material for it. Gaaahhh</p>
<p>Also, I have CTRL-F-“Hispanic”‘d several results threads and it seems that Hispanic/Latino applicants get in basically all the time. Do results threads have huge response bias for Hispanics? Am I crazy? Is there an invisible league of puppet CC posters venturing to crush little Hispanic boys’ dreams?</p>
<p>Hi, normally, I don’t post chance threads (well, this isn’t even my account, it’s a friend’s), but I wanted to know what 'yall think of my chances.
My app will be more academic based than EC, because I’m more academic based.
By graduation, I will have taken 19 AP classes (3 Freshman, 3 Sophomore, 6 Junior, and 7 Senior), 1 college class (linear algebra), and 5 honors classes.
I have a 4/4.79 10-11 GPA and a 4/4.72 9-11 GPA and a 2270 SAT. </p>
<p>MY ECs:
Non-Profit (501c3)
FBLA
Internship at two starting up writing based companies
Peer-Counselor
CIT and Gesher (counselor for day camp)
400 Community Service Hours
First Generation College Grad
Fluent in four languages (English, ASL, Hebrew, Spanish)
White (North African), CA, Upperclass</p>
<p>*btw, I scored a 5 on all my AP tests, excluding Freshman year Environmental (4), and Sophomore Year Biology (4). </p>
<p>Also, 5 SAT Subject Tests:
Hebrew, 800.
English Lit, 800.
USH 780.
Math II 800.
Chemistry 800.</p>
<p>c8h11no2: The portfolio I submitted focuses on graphite and acrylic/watercolor, and I also work with pastels, papercutting, and digital painting. I can work with almost any medium decently, but I’ve experimented a few times with stuff like charcoal and sculpting and I didn’t like it too much. </p>
<p>I wanted to submit a digital portfolio too, but most of my digital art is fanart of movies, games, etc, and art admissions never answered my email about whether there were copyright issues even if the fanart showed technique well. </p>
<p>Been interested in art since about 3rd grade, I think? But I only really got into drawing in middle school. I did see the D school and I was more interested in the fine arts, but you never know, I might change my mind. (I won’t get my hopes up if I’m rejected haha)</p>
<p>LOL 19 APs ***? My school doesn’t even offer that many APs, even if you took all of our languages at once. You certainly have a chance at Stanford, but don’t rest on your academic laurels. Write great essays, because no GPA or amount of 5s on AP exams will get you in.</p>
<p>UCschools
how do you have a 4.0 unweighted then a 4.8 weighted with 19 AP’s? 0<em>o
i have a 3.6 UW then a 4.7 Weighted with 8 0</em>o
shouldn’t it be way higher if your unweighted is 4.0?</p>
<p>Lol, I wish my school offered 19. I took 4 online.
-Environmental
-Biology
-World History
-Human Geography</p>
<p>Yeah, I know. Last year, someone with a 4.8 10-11 GPA got rejected from my school- yet, a 4.2 10-11 GPA got accepted!
Granted the 4.8 didn’t run a non-profit, but that’s still insane!</p>
<p>I agree with orbdas. One of my old teachers is close friends with someone on an admissions committee, so she provides us with tips sometimes. One of the very first things that she said was that taking a freakish amount of APs may raise some eyebrows on the readers, but not in a good way because they might assume that you were just trying to buffer your GPA. </p>
<p>It’s not necessarily bad, though. Your fluency in 4 languages could also interest them. </p>
<p>The only thing is that at a school like Stanford, academics only get you so far. At some point, they have all of the top academic students who basically have the same statistics and they have to start judging by essays, passions, extracurriculars.</p>
<p>Because:
Freshman: 4.5 (3 APs, 3 UW classes)
Sophomore: 4.5 (3 APs, 2 UW classes)
Junior: 5.0 <em>only one in grade to have this</em> (6 APs, 0 UW classes
That makes 4.72 9-11 GPA, 4.835 10-11 GPA
Lol, I guess you’re right. That’s not my official GPA, I went on Aeries and plugged it in. Guess I plugged something wrong into my calculator.
I mean, I guess my GPA is slightly higher than I originally thought! Sweet!!</p>
<p>nooooo, wouldn’t it be much higher? AP’s are on a 6.0 scale
Honors are 5.0
regulars are 4.0
so if your unweighted was 4.0 that’d mean that your junior year you’d have a 6.0 GPA.
O_O which is highly incredible, gooooood f-ing job!</p>
<p>I never believe APs matter that much. Rumor has that Stanford assesses AP classes according to what the school offers ( otherwise it’s unfair for schools that don’t provide as much APs or international applicants). In short, we don’t know what they do about it and it certainly is not a deal-breaker. </p>
<p>I agree with Aegise, just write great essays and be a person instead of a bunch of numbers.</p>
<p>@bluetyphoon
Lol, that’s really cool that your school does that!
My school’s weighted scale goes up to 5.</p>
<p>@keepyourshirton
That’s a cool username, hahaha.
APs don’t matter that much, if your school doesn’t offer them. I have a friend who got into Stanford two years back- she had no APs (because her school didn’t offer them). Instead, she only took honors and college courses. I guess colleges really do only judge you based on your school!</p>
<p>@orbdas
Nooooooo… lol. That wouldn’t be good. hahaha. I’ve never been able to get an A+ in my life, lol. My grades range from 90-93.5%, hahaha. Shh… don’t tell Stanford though. lol</p>
<p>What Keepyourshirton is correct, as far as I know. My school only offers a maximum of six APs prior to senior year if one doesn’t self-study. I’ve known people who have gotten in having taken only two APs and people who have been rejected with eight under their belt. Academic scores will only carry an applicant so far.</p>
<p>Are GPAs calculated very differently in different areas? Because I took 6 APs in the last 3 years (freshmen year didn’t offer any) and the rest of my schedule was IB, and my GPA is around 7 right now. Unless IB is also weighted differently, which it might be. </p>
<p>UCschoolsftw, don’t become /too/ confident in your academics. If they compare you to someone who has a 2100, only 3 APs, and a 3.6 unweighted, but is extremely passionate in robotics and has been building robots since they were very young, they may very well take that person over you.</p>
<p>Mine offers only 3 before senior year. And phew, okay, because I have a [brag] 4.0/4.83 without a single A- or non-honors/AP course to speak of. [/brag]</p>
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