Shot at Stanford?

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<p>Curious as to what people think of my chances.</p>

<p>White male from public school in Eastern Mass.</p>

<p>Standardized Testing-wise:</p>

<p>SAT: 2350 (800M, 800V, 740W)</p>

<p>SAT II:
Sophomore:
US History 800
Biology E 800
Junior:
Physics 800
Math 2 800</p>

<p>AP:
Sophomore:
US History 5
Physics C (Mechanics): 5
Calc BC: 5 (AB Subscore 5)
Junior:
Art History 5
English Lit 5
Physics C (E/M): 5
Statistics: 5</p>

<p>GPA: 3.83 UW (everything has been honors/AP though)</p>

<p>ECs:
Captain of Science Team, 3rd in New England
Captain of Math Team
Cellist since age 4
Cello in competitive all-NE orchestra (Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra) for 9 years; principal cellist (sometimes)
Cellist in local klezmer groups, improvisational jazz/fusion group for charity, classical chamber music groups
Ultimate frisbee team
ACLU school chapter member
School newspaper contributor
Instructor in 2 physics courses, Thermodynamics and AP Electricity/Magnetism
Courses at John Hopkins during summer for four years
Exchange student to Japan, summer 2005</p>

<p>Awards:
AIME Qualifier/Top AMC Scorer in Grade in School
Mass. Math League High Scorer
National Spanish Exam, 6th Place in MA (Level 2), 8th Place in MA (Level 3)
Japan-US Senate Youth Exchange scholar 2005 (one person/state)
Mass. Forensics League State Qualifier (couldn't attend)</p>

<p>So, does it look decent?</p>

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<p>Wow. Good Job.</p>

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<p>Since I can't edit I'll just repost; that's a 2340 SAT--I'm not going to college on my phenomenal addition skills.</p>

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<p>Excellent chance, but I'm sure you knew that...</p>

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<p>Very, very good chance.</p>

<p>If you go SCEA and your recs & essays are good, there's no reason why you shouldn't get in.</p>

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<p>Why do you want to goto UC Palo Alto, go for the real thing UCB.</p>

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<p>^ This is coming from the guy who's apparently going to Penn next year. Why go to Penn when you can go for the real thing to Penn State? :p</p>

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<p>how did he get into Penn with grammar like that?</p>

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<p>With MSWord's wonderful and infallible grammar checker, of course.</p>

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<p>Why you would go to UC Palo ALto aka leland Stanfurd Jr College with 80% folks coimng from CA, AZ, OR, NV UT MT. It is very regional school. You would feel like a international student here. Stay in East where at 15/20% ALONE COME FROM WEST.</p>

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<p>In west USC ranks ahead of Stanford and Caltech.</p>

<p>Check out Andover 2005 and stevenson 2004 placements.</p>

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<p>try these:
<a href="http://www.andover.edu/news/commencement05.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.andover.edu/news/commencement05.htm&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.rlstevenson.org/ftpimages/28/misc/misc_14901.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.rlstevenson.org/ftpimages/28/misc/misc_14901.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Proves USC is doing better at top 20% type kids in top prep schools, Go Trojans.</p>