34 ACT
4.0 GPA
800 SAT Math 2
780 SAT Biology M
3 varsity sports with All-Conference recognition, lots of volunteering/club activity, 4-year 1st chair in my band with State level awards
I want to go for Biology/Biological Engineering, but I’m from a very small town in Wisconsin. No one from here knows about any of the major math/science competitions and there were never any internship/research opportunities available for me. Do I have any chance at all without a STEM spike to emphasize?
Alright, I think you’ve got a really good chance at Stanford, which is a college that is focused on test scores. While MIT is also focused on test scores, they really want to see students who create a product or invent something very new. This makes your chances at Stanford higher than they are at MIT. What’s your ranking? If you’re in the top of your class, your chances would improve. Make sure you write an impactful college essay and get good recommendations from your teachers.
Stanford likes athletes, so you probably have a better than average (>5%) chance there. Being a rural applicant is also fairly unusual. I’d just cross my fingers, and use UW-Madison as my safety.
@0pt1muspr1m3 I think you have good chances given your background. if you didn’t have access to internships etc growing up they are not going to hold it against you, they will evaluate you based on whether you made the most of what you had available. Are you being recruited at Stanford for sports?
I am also applying to Stanford for bioengineering! Care to chance me back?
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/2026851-chances-for-stanford-penn-harvard-columbia-and-other-top-schools.html#latest
@Oceanchem wrong, stanford is less focused on test scores than other schools as you can see from their normal score range.
@MaybeHarvard2022 one could argue that Stanford wants very high scores for its non-athletic applicants in order to have capacity to accept top athletes with rather lowish scores. ivies do not have this issue to such an extent because their athletic departments are not top like Stanford’s