<p>I'm pretty sure universities will care only about your best score. At this point, I don't think you should apply EA to Stanford because of your standardized test scores, but you should definitely apply regular after you have improved your score to 2000+.</p>
<p>Im looking into alot of other Ivy schools, but Stanford is my dream university, so please let me know how my chances are looking as far as admissions, anf if I should go with early action or Regular decision. My passion is philanthropy and finding ways to improve the community around me.</p>
<p>Major (pending): Bio-medical engineer MInor (pending): Politics as in political science</p>
<p>Hook: African American, 1st generation from Nigerian Igbo culture</p>
<p>GPA: 3.99 unweighted, around 4.3 weighted with 3 APs so far, and 4 more to go remaining classes all honors/ adv.</p>
<p>SAT: My only and biggest flaw…a 1620 taking again in winter but i feel if i dont get in it would be because of the sats ACT: Taking in winter.</p>
<p>ECs: Tennis all my life, 4 years on varsity tennis, district champion, mvp all three years; Student council leadership/ First African american ASB president at my school; I went before the school board and brought back off campus lunch after 30 years of it being gone (a really big deal). national honor society 2 years; FBLA (2years); Speech and debate (4years), state qualifier in open rounds, won first place novice radio, won second place open ADS; REAP (reaching and empowering all people) an organization to help all people reach the future goals, leader in the Igbo youth community on the Igbo youth forum</p>
<p>Volunteering: Started CRT (Centennial restoration team) a graffiti cleaning team at my school; Volunteer at brook dale senior living about 50 hours, Oregon food bank 100plus hours, Community 101, Volunteer as an alter server and lecture for my church 50 plus hours, Volunteer on the Igbo youth forum, Volunteer to coach little kids tennis at Cascade athletics clubs, Have many different areas of volunteering in the EC’s that i am in 100plus hours</p>
<p>Part time jobs: Service Master Building maintenance of Gresham, Working at Cascade athletic clubs</p>
<p>Awards: Numerous Tennis awards from tournaments and school, Awards on the speech and debate team, Presidents academic achievement award (Idk if it counts since i got it coming out of middle school)</p>
<p>Worries: I am also worried about how well i need to do on the SAT’s if that alone will kill my chances of getting into Stanford/ any other IVY; Im worried if I have anything that really makes me stand out, or shows my personality through what I do. And of course im worried if my essays are top notch.</p>
<p>Questions: If you do bad on your first SAT and do better on your second one will Ivy’s still penalize you for the first one? How in the world will i possibly make an essay stating all that I do, without sounding like i am listing? If I describe my community service works/ EC’s and how they link to my passion is that a good topic for my essay?</p>
<p>Anyone who takes time to give constructive feedback, I really appreciate you! Thankyou</p>
<p>Ok thats what i was thinking too thankyou ^_^</p>