SCEA Chance! Please Chance my brother, please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>{This is a chance for my close brother}</p>

<p>Indian Male (Mother studied in a rural village; Father studied in IIT)</p>

<p>Public School in CA, Santa Clara
UW GPA: 4.0
W : 4.8</p>

<p>SAT: 2240
Math: 800; CR: 710; Writing: 730
SAT II
Math lv2: 800
Biology 760
Physics 800</p>

<p>EC:
1) Chess: Starter/President of chess club in school; Won regional tournaments; Member of USCF; Takes lessons and is involved in the Peninsula Chess Organization started by a UCLA alumini.</p>

<p>2) Religious activities: Writer of articles in a publiched religious magazine in India; Takes Religious lessons from grandpa; He is not an official priest of a temple, but he is allowed to enter sacred bounds, and he knows religious hymns. He is the youngest and only high schooler in the Temple.</p>

<p>{He only has these two, and will mention these two activities in his essay} </p>

<p>Awards:
Chenile Acedemic Block Award
AIME Qualifier
Math League Competition Award
The Tech Challenge winner
Synopsis Science Fair 2nd place
Stanford Math Tournament 3rd place winner
Sony Stars Semi-finalist
Olympiad of the Arts 1st place winner</p>

<p>He won other scholarships (National Merit, Datatel, Bank of America, etc) </p>

<p>He Volunteers in The Tech Museum (He loves it, but Im not sure if he is going to mention this explicitly in his app)</p>

<p>Rank 3 / 500</p>

<p>Summer:
Sophomore year: EPGY at Stanford
Junior Year: SSP </p>

<p>AP Courses/score:
Sophomore:
-AP European History = 5
-AP CompSci = 5</p>

<p>Junior
-AP Calc A/B = 5
-AP Biology = 4
-AP Physics B = 5
-APUSH = 4
-AP Statistics = 5</p>

<p>Senior
-AP Chemestry
-AP Calc B/C
-AP Literature/Composition
-AP Economics</p>

<p>My brother knows that Harvard wants a diverse group of students. My brother is a Hindu Bhramin, and we strictly follow spiritual activities. We even perform daily rituals. We also keep track of our family tree (My brother is the 25th decendant of a sage and Im 26th)</p>

<p><em>Yes, all our family were in India. We are the first of our family to settle outside India and in USA</em></p>

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<p>I hope your brother is more careful with school names. People get really annoyed by this, though everyone knows that they are not the one and only school you will be applying to.</p>

<p>He sounds interesting, so he will be a competitive applicant.</p>

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<p>I mean sorry, It was supposed to be Stanford not Harvard. I just copied and pasted fast. haha. my bad.</p>

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<p>Numbers-wise he's very competitive, if not a little bit ahead of the curve. His EC's though, just aren't there. I understand that his religious activities are very important to him and that they take up what is most likely a fair chunk of his time, but its very hard to quantify religious activities as an EC the way you can sports, band, choir, etc. The chess thing, while he certainly has done more than just join the school chess club, is still closer to filler than to a substantial EC. </p>

<p>His goal needs to be to prove to the admissions committee that his religious stuff is legit. Put it in essays for sure, get a rec from a person involved in the stuff, whatever it takes. Becaues his grades and awards are impressive, but they aren't anything Stanford hasn't seen before.</p>

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<p>Will he apply as an international student? If so, that will make his life much, much more difficult. As it stands, it depends a lot on recs and essays. Those will have to be incredibly strong.</p>

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<p>No, he's from CA, i've said it already near the top.</p>

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<p>How do you think he is award-wise (competitions)?</p>