Stanford Chances?

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<p>I decided against SCEA because I heard the applicant pool is ridiculously qualified demihumans/legacies/atheletes/developmental cases.</p>

<p>As such, I will be applying to my number 1 in the RD round.</p>

<p>Yes, I do realize that anybody's chances or slim, but I'd appreciate it if some of you offered some insight on my chances to the school? (I'm interested in engineering/entrepreneurship)</p>

<p>I know my extracurricular's are quite unorthodox so please refrain from laughing! They demand much of my time; perhaps are the number one reason why my grades aren't stellar for a Stanford applicant.</p>

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<p>GPAs w/out senior year 1st semester </p>

<p>Unweighted: 3.86
Weighted 9-Present: 4.2
Weighted 10-Present: 4.38 (Could rise to 4.44 after 7th semester)</p>

<p>ACT: 35 (36 R, 34 M, 36 W, 35 S)
SAT Subjects: 800 Math, 770 History, Chem & Physics in October (Wish me luck!)</p>

<p>Significant ECs (Leaving out trivial stuff like CM Piano, etc):
*Speech & Debate since freshman year. (3rd place, 8th place, 2nd place at State consecutively - lucky, I know. Got screwed over not qualifying to nationals though)
-Club V.P.</p>

<p>*County Search and Rescue Team - 3 years, 120 hours a year </p>

<p>*Competitive Latin/Ballroom Dance since freshman year, 1st Place Regionals last year (I do a mean cha-cha)</p>

<p>*NHS President at large public high school</p>

<p>*Founded Hip-Hop Dance/Bboy Club at school freshman year, really weird for an AP kid I know, but I love it. We perform for school rallies and fundraising shows.</p>

<p>*Volunteer Videography for non-profit Youth Foster Homes (produce promotional clips for their galas and events and stuff; kids are awesome)</p>

<p>*Co-leader for Worship Team at my church. I've played guitar/keyboard on Sundays for about three years. Jesus-Freak! :P</p>

<p>*Herd impoverished alpacas in Guatemala every summer</p>

<p>Totally joking about that last one</p>

<p>*And finally: I was lucky enough to intern this past summer for an angel investor organization. I am hoping to get the CEO/founder to write a rec letter for me about how brilliant and handsome I am, or something along those lines. They are very well known in the Bay Area especially by Stanford so I'm hoping this will score me some brownie points.</p>

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<p>Please please please keep the responses civil and constructive. If I have no chance, let me know and I will gladly take that into consideration.
If you think I have a shot, much appreciated, and please indicate why so I can capitulate on that in my essays and whatnot.</p>

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<p>As a current student, you have a decent chance. There’s a lot of people who do Debate, are class and club presidents. Try to focus on what makes you stand out from the others. Your scores are fine. What is your class rank? All that matters now is the subjective part of your application. Why should Stanford pick you? Think about that.</p>

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<p>Actually our school doesn’t do class rank!
Speaking of subjectivity, do you think my essays should approach more experiencial topics? Like specific events that don’t involve the qualifications in the rest of my application?</p>

<p>E.g writing one about trying to make a viral youtube video of my chinchilla
Rather than one about what I learned at my internship at the angel group?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Did you succeed with the viral video? Worked for investor could be interesting depending on how you pitch it up.</p>