Stanford Chances?

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<p>Hey....so i just kinda found out that ill be graduating a year early cuz my high schools running out of classes to keep me occupied. Ill be attending college for most of the day for my junior year at suny stony brook, and will be graduating in 2013. Please let me know my chances. I have already obtained most of the stats below, however i will be taking a bunch of ap tests this may. If i score as i predict i will, i would like to know my chances for getting into harvard, yale, stanford, oxford, cambridge, Cal berkeley, Stanford, U chicago, northwestern, cornell, brown, dartmouth, upenn, columbia, princeton, MIT, Caltech, michigan, and suny binghampton or geneseo. even if you just can chance for one of the colleges i would really greatly appreciate it. Ive just been thrown into this college application business a year early so i need some help. thanks!</p>

<p>[li] SAT I (breakdown): 2400 (already have score)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT: perfect 36 with 12 on essay (will take in september; but always score 36 on practice tests)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: Already have scores Math 2:800 World:800 Physics:800 Chemistry:800 Biology E:800; might take Spanish and Literature in October; expecting 750 to 800 if i take</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 98.something/100, 105/100 weighted</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/800ish</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): already have- World(5); will most likely have after this may- Statistics(5) Psychology(5) Physics C Mech(5) Physics C E+M(5) Physics B(5) Biology(5) Chemistry(5) Euro(5) Calculus BC(5) Computer Science A(5) Environmental Science(5)(all self study except world and euro, but im in the calc A class)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] IB (place score in parenthesis): None </p>[/li]
<p>[li] Junior Year Course Load: AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP English Literature AP English Language, AP Spanish, AP US History; at college(SUNY stony brook)- 1st semester - multivariable calculus, linear algebra, organic chemistry; 2nd semester- differential equations, real analysis, intermediate mechanics</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): bunch of local research awards,</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): started organization to tutor underprivileged kids in poor neighborhoods, part of organization which fixes computers and donates to poor schools, math honor society mu alpha theta, spanish honor society, national honor society(not many leadership positions because im just a sophomore), played football and basketball in freshman year, couldn't play anymore due to tearing ligament in ankle during summer( do you think they'll understand?), US Government club, summer research at SUNY stony brook</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: will lifeguard this summer at a gym, sat tutor, [/li]school tutor</p>

<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service: my tutoring to underprivileged kids ^, National honor society tutoring, math honor society tutoring, volunteered all the time to serve food at local indian community center and run events there</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities: lifeguard, research at stony brook, tutoring</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays: Im an amazing persuasive writer should be really great essays</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recommendation: my teachers love me should be really good</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec: Will be AMAZING</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Principal Rec: Will be AMAZING</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Additional Rec: idk who yet</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview: im a great speaker and really friendly so should go good</p>[/li]
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant): New York</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: Catholic School in Long Island</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: Indian FML</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: Male..... FML</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket: >250,000k....again FML</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): both parents went to great colleges in india, but they're not very well known schools so could that be an advantage maybe?</p>[/li]
<p>Im just really nervous considering im a rich indian boy but i dont have any connections to the colleges and dont attend a feeder school like andover.</p>

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<p>Flamboyantly disingenuous or plain stupid? You be the judge.</p>

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<p>Could be both?</p>

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<p>You have no chance at all at any of those schools. Why bother applying? You should raise that SAT score and no IB classes? Sad.</p>

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<p>Perfect score on the SAT → Of course you need to take the ACT. Very logical.</p>

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<p>I smell a ■■■■■</p>

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<p>alright look im not a ■■■■■ im completely serious. if you dont have anything to say which will help me then please dont respond. and im taking the act just to raise my chances and my parents want me to.</p>

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<p>Of course your stats are awesome, so you’ll be very competitive in the applicant pool. However, Stanford in particular (along with the rest of the Ivy Leagues to some extent) notoriously turns away awesome students because they’re just not interesting enough. They’ll understand about your sports injury if you tell them, not that it will matter much.
I’m not going to get your hopes up. Everyone who applies to Stanford is an awesome student. You are particularly awesome. But Stanford regularly admits kids with 2000-2100 SATs just because they’re interesting people. I think I got in because I do classical-style stone relief sculpture and I’m fascinated by prosthetics, even though my SAT IIs were in the 650-range (2260 SAT reasoning) and I only have three AP scores.
When you apply, do your best to make yourself come off as a human with passions and beliefs and faults. I know that sounds like a no-brianer, but you have such a long list of accomplishments that it can be hard to get away from all of that and just be a person! YOU are unique, not your achievements. Your achievements get you off the discard pile, and your humanity gets you in the door.</p>

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<p>haha thanks!:slight_smile: at least someone can be nice on these threads. how do you think i should go about appearing more interesting?</p>