<p>I'm set on doing SCEA for stanford but i still have a few questions</p>
<p>1) how much does stanford favor in-state? does being from MD hurt?
2) how much does being asian hurt? (female)
3) i am applying SCEA, but so is this other girl at my school who is an amazing track star. how much does that decrease my chances? should i reconsider scea?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>1) Stanford takes a lot of kids from CA (around 40% of enrolled students are Californian) but despite that seemingly high figure, it's actually extremely competitive because of the vast number of CA applicants. Maryland is not really an underrepresented state like some Midwest states, but it's not nearly as competitive as CA. I don't think it'll either help or hurt.</p>
<p>2) Being Asian will hurt, especially if you're a stereotypical Asian (math/science oriented, classical musician, etc.) I think that the Asian male pool is the most competitive, but it's not that much easier for females.</p>
<p>3) From what I've heard, applicants are not directly compared with others from their school, but rather a hypothetical applicant that they create to gauge your accomplishments based on the opportunities that your school and community gave to you. There are no set quotas for any high school, so I definitely urge you to apply, SCEA if it's your first choice.</p>
<p>1) What ForeverZero said, except added on the fact that CA is a huge state (if we were on the East Coast, just think how many states we'd be...). People have actually done the math (I'm too lazy to do it right now), and the percent of Californians at Stanford is comparable to the percent of a certain number of close-by states at, say, Princeton. So being in-state doesn't help. Maryland will probably be neutral, but I couldn't say for sure.</p>
<p>2) They're not going to reject you for being Asian. They might, however, reject you for being a less-interesting version of someone else (but that could happen to anyone, of any race). So all I can offer by way of advice is to try to give them a good sense of who you are, and hope.</p>
<p>3) I've heard the same thing as ForeverZero. I would definitely suggest applying SCEA if it's your first choice, because showing that level of interest as an out-of-stater can only help. (This is, of course, unless your application would benefit from an extra semester's worth of grades, test scores, or extracurriculars).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks for the replies... i'm still undecided whether to scea stanford or ed brown. i'm getting so easily intimidated by all the kids at my school that're applying to the same colleges as me, because i know they're more qualified.</p>