<p>So I figure I've read enough of these chances threads to know what everyone is going to tell me, but I just applied and am freaking out so I want to just get some opinions anyways.</p>
<p>Testing/academics</p>
<p>SAT:
750 Writing
750 Math
760 Reading</p>
<p>ACT
35 Composite
35 English
35 Math
33 Reading
35 Science </p>
<p>GPA
4.0 unweighted
4.08 weighted</p>
<p>7 AP's and and a bunch of honors/pre-ap's. pretty much the hardest course load I could take at my high school</p>
<p>Ranking
19/160 (yeah this is my weakest part of my application I know, but I come from a super competitive school where everyone in the top 50 has 4.0+ GPA's and my grades have improved significantly since freshman year--or at least have gone from A- to A+) </p>
<p>Letters of Rec
Should be really really good. I got to read the one from the "other recommendations" (my art teacher) and it was great. She talked about how creative and artistic I am and how uncommon that is in a Math person like me and how I'm athletic and artsy, going on about how different of a student I am (which I know is what Stanford is looking for)</p>
<p>EC's
Vice president freshman year </p>
<p>National honor society member </p>
<p>I wrestled and played football from freshman to junior year until I tore my meniscus and couldn't wrestle anymore. I used the other information section to discuss how devastating this was but then how I just had to redefine who I was and started a bunch of new EC's </p>
<p>After Meniscus tear:
become president Mu Alpha Theta and have worked to transform the non active club into an active club with service opportunity and stuff.</p>
<p>Copy editor at school newspaper </p>
<p>Helped to start a book club at my school.</p>
<p>Got a job tutoring at mathnasium </p>
<p>Essays:
very well written. I'm a great writer and I think I did a good job at bringing out the who I am in the essays</p>
<p>What sets me apart:
The big main essay was about growing up being gay in homophobic southwest Louisiana and how that's changed my views on other people and on discrimination and forced me to become tolerant even of the intolerant. </p>
<p>I wrote my intellectual vitality about how much I love physics and how it's like magic to me. </p>
<p>My roommate essay was all about how I'm an anomaly. How I'm artistic and mathematical and a jock and a homosexual and a masculine guy and a nerd. </p>
<p>My what's important to me essay I talked about how improving myself is important to me and how I do all these things that are more challenging despite what others tell me because I want to become the very best person I can be. </p>
<p>I've heard Louisiana is an underrepresented state so I tried to bring out me Cajun background in some of my essays/short responses about how I mud ride and eat crawfish and duck hunt </p>
<p>So, what do you guys think? I'll be sure to post my results on December 15th (the day after my birthday!!)</p>